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Five U.S. senators have asked the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services to launch a probe into physician-owned distributorships to determine their legality, according to a Wall Street Journal report. PODs, which exist in at least…

American Regent is conducting a nationwide voluntary recall of a single lot (#0152) of its Methyldopate HCL Injection, USP, according to an FDA release.

A bill that passed the Senate and is now being debated in the House would hamper the ability of physicians and other small operations in obtaining patents for medical devices, according to Paul Ryan, CEO of Acacia Research, a Newport…

Derek Beresford Thorpe, MD, a diagnostic radiologist from Jacksonville, Fla., has been arrested for allegedly for illegally distributing painkillers in Savannah, Ga., according to a report by the Savannah Morning News.

A study presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology found minority patients are 50 percent more likely to receive inadequate treatment for cancer-related pain, according to a report by HemOnc Today.

The global market for cardiovascular monitoring and diagnostic devices is expected to reach $1.2 billion by 2017, according to a release from MarketResearch.com.

Medical device industry lobby AdvaMed has called for six changes in federal policy to boost the industry and stop device-makers from migrating overseas, according to a release from AdvaMed.

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette has filed a lawsuit accusing prescription drug wholesaler McKesson of illegally inflating prices of medicine purchased by the state’s Medicaid program, according to a Bloomberg BusinessWeek report. Atty. Gen. Schuette is seeking to recover millions…

The city of Dallas has agreed to pay $2.47 million to the state of Texas and the U.S. government to settle allegations of healthcare fraud, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The state and U.S. government…

Although many healthcare experts agree reporting adverse events and medical errors can help improve healthcare quality in the long run, study findings show healthcare employees may not be as quick to self-report their own errors, according to an HR Solutions…