Younger children with amblyopia, or lazy eye, respond better to treatment than older children, according to a report by the Archives of Ophthalmology.
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Stanford Hospital & Clinics will open a headache clinic, billed as the first such clinic at an academic medical center on the West Coast, according to a Stanford news release.
Nashville-based ambulatory surgery center developer and operator AmSurg reported earnings that were down 11.5 percent in the second quarter compared to the same period last year, according to a Nashville Business-Journal report.
The FDA confirmed industry suspicions that its device approval process is taking more time, but the agency blamed poorer quality 510(k) submissions by devicemakers for most of the delays, according to an FDA report.
Dr. Ivo Aaron Miller has joined the Center for Oral and Facial Surgery in Chattanooga and Ft. Oglethorpe, Tenn., according to a report from WTVC NewsChannel 9.
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Recalled alcohol wipes responsible for at least two patient deaths may still be in use, according to a Journal Sentinel news report.
Dr. Henry Rosenberg, president of Malignant Hyperthermia Association of the United States, discusses preventing exposure for a malignant hyperthermia-susceptible patient to potent gas anesthetics that may trigger an MH episode in his latest blog entry on the MHAUS website.
Excela Health may face 72 lawsuits filed by coronary patients who claim two of the Greensburg, Pa.-based system’s physicians performed unnecessary heart surgeries. Read the full story at Becker’s Hospital Review.
A former cardiologist from Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Md., is on trial over allegations that he unnecessarily implanted hundreds of stents into patients’ healthy arteries. Read the full story at Becker’s Hospital Review.
The owners of a healthcare business in Palos Hills, Ill., and a suspended podiatrist were arrested yesterday and charged with illegally accepting more than $1.5 million in fraudulent Medicare payments, according to a local ABC 7 News report. Bahir Haj…