The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has disciplined a surgeon and a nurse after it discovered the professionals were involved in the transplant of a kidney from a donor infected with hepatitis C, according to a Reuters news report.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Dificid tablets for the treatment of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea, according to an FDA news release.
William Montague has been called out of retirement, after being appointed as acting director of the Dayton (Ohio) VA Medical Center, to revamp the troubled hospital's quality issues, according to an NECN news report.
Rather than targeting corporations, federal enforcers are beginning to narrow their focus on individual executives in the fight against healthcare fraud, according to a Boston Globe report. In addition to fines paid by companies, senior executives can face criminal charges…
Steven Beumel, a former radiology technician at Memorial Hospital and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., has been indicted with five counts of tampering with a consumer product resulting in death or serious bodily injury and five counts of obtaining…
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Johns Hopkins Medicine has received a $10 million gift to establish the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, according to a Johns Hopkins news release.
Dale Hockel, vice president of clinical engineering services at TriMedx, which provides healthcare equipment services for clinics, hospitals, imaging centers and surgery centers, lists three great ideas for negotiating warranties from equipment manufacturers.
Research findings show a four-step team approach can reduce the incidence of deep surgical site infections in joint replacements surgeries, according to a Medscape Medical News report.
Lateral violence, defined as disruptive, disparaging or uncivil behavior from one provider to another, can create an unpleasant work environment that affects nurses, patients and healthcare organizations, according to a study published in the May 2011 issue of the AORN…
A federal judge in Tennessee has awarded the U.S. government $82.6 million from three renal care companies that overbilled Medicare for home dialysis from 1999-2005, according to a Forbes report. U.S. District Judge William J. Haynes Jr. ruled that Nashville-based…