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Here are five recent fraud cases involving healthcare CEOs.

Researchers from Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio, have found adults, regardless of age, who are insured by Medicare, Medicaid or both are at much higher risk of being hospitalized with sepsis compared to those who have private…

Chicago — Matthew D. Saltzman, MD, an assistant professor at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery who specializes in shoulder and elbow surgery, will present on "Reducing the Risk of Surgical Site Infections:…

Here are 11 pain management physicians who accepted new positions in 2011.

A central line insertion checklist helped two community hospital's intensive care units reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections by 86 percent, according to research published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

AmSurg Corp. President and CEO Christopher A. Holden has announced the appointment of Cynthia S. Miller to the AmSurg board of directors.

Surgical Care Affiliates (SCA) operates a network of 130 ambulatory surgery centers and surgical hospitals across the country with approximately 3,700 full-time teammates and more than 2,000 physician partners. The company’s mission is to care for patients, serve physicians, and…

Medtronic and St. Jude Medical have been developing competing neurostimulation systems, according to a report by Mass Device.

An official from the National Institutes of Health identified four key research areas for a record $400 million in funding allocated in 2010 for pain research, according to a report by the American Pain Society.

Ripal Parikh, MD, will provide pain management services at Pain Management Group in Findlay, Ohio, according to a release from the practice.