Students at Johns Hopkins University have posted a video on YouTube that shows a da Vinci Surgical System playing the game Operation nearly flawlessly.
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Hospital outpatient care accounts for more than one-fifth of all outpatient costs in the United States, though it makes up only 5 percent of outpatient visits, according to a MedPageToday report.
A recent study published in Health Services Research suggests higher registered nurse non-overtime staffing decreases the chance of readmission.
Joseph Burkhardt, DO, of Brookside Surgery Center in Battle Creek, Mich., will be participating in a 10-year follow-up trial of the ConforMIS iUni G2 knee resurfacing device, according to a report from Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News.
The Kentucky attorney general's office has released an opinion statement saying county governments do not have the power to ban pain clinics, according to a Lexington Herald-Leader news report.
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The registered nurses of St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., will hold a one-day strike for patient safety on May 6, as contract talks continue to stall over staffing levels at the hospital, according to a news release.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., will pay $2.2 million to settle allegations that it improperly billed various federal health programs, according to a Boston Globe report. Federal prosecutors say the case began in 2007 when a physician accused the…
Prescription opioid pain medications are driving an "epidemic" of unintentional overdose deaths, according to a news release by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
A New Bern, N.C., pain management physician has pled guilty to healthcare fraud and been sentenced to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution, according to a Sun Journal report. Michael K. Nunn, MD, practiced under Community Wellness Center in New Bern,…
Following an eight-day trial, oral surgeon Gary Morgan Schwarz, DDS, has been acquitted of the remaining eight counts of the original 17 counts of healthcare fraud and conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud against him, according to a report from The…