Six University of California facilities received nine grants totaling $3.4 million for projects designed to understanding and resolve common obstacles to health quality, according to a UCLA news release. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on the UC…
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A former physician from Knoxville, Tenn., has been sentenced to one year in prison after pleading guilty to healthcare fraud and failure to file tax returns, according to a Knoxville News Sentinel report. Allen R. Foster, MD, used a fast-track…
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Researchers found individuals who drink coffee or hot tea are less likely to be MRSA nasal carriers than those who do not drink coffee or hot tea, according to a study published in the Annals of Family Medicine.
Researchers are testing a wireless power source that would eliminate electric power attachments for implanted medical devices, according to a news release by the University of Washington.
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The FDA has approved Archimedes Pharma's Lazanda nasal spray for the management of breakthrough pain in adult cancer patients, according to a report by the FDA.
A tiny drug delivery device that fits in the eye, still under development in California, could help glaucoma patients who do not comply with drug treatment schedules, according to a report by EuroTimes.
Florida authorities report that 34 pain patients treated just in 2011 by Joseph Hernandez, MD, are dead and they are considering pressing charges against him for those deaths, according to a report by ABC News.
In the past two decades, U.S. medical device and diagnostic equipment prices have risen at less than half the rate of overall prices and less than one quarter the rate of prices for medical goods and services, according to a…
An oncologist and his wife, both from Lakewood, Wash., have been charged with 20 counts of healthcare fraud and related charges for participation in an alleged scheme to overbill healthcare programs for medicine administered to patients, according to a news…