All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., is contacting all patients who came into contact with an unnamed employee who recently died from a bloodstream infection that can lead to meningitis, according to a St. Petersburg Times news report.
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The following article is written by Jack Wagner, president of Micro-Scientific, a producer and distributor of anitmicrobial products. Is it OK to take a 10-day antibiotic for only two days because you think you feel better?
Hospital groups are concerned that medical device manufacturers will pass on a 2.3 percent tax on their products to hospitals and other providers, according to a letter the groups sent to the Internal Revenue Service.
The Nevada Attorney General’s Office and Federal Trade Commission have launched an inquiry on Reno, Nev.-based Renown Health to examine its partnerships with cardiovascular groups, according to a Reno Gazette-Journal report. Central to the inquiry are partnerships through Renown’s Institute…
Texas State Rep. Susan King (R-Abilene) has filed a bill that would allow healthcare providers, including ambulatory surgery centers, to opt out of the state requirement to submit patient data to the Texas Health Care Information Collection, the statistics-gathering arm…
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Public data on patient outcomes in Veterans Affairs hospitals has motivated hospitals with poor results to make changes, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
The following article is written by Charles Kinder, MD, director of heart rhythm program for Heart Care Centers of Illinois and founder of DocFroc. Sixteen million healthcare professionals wear scrubs in the workplace everyday. A recent study released by…
The following article is written by Brian Williamson, PharmD, president & CEO of JCB Laboratories. Dilating patients' eyes before ophthalmic procedures is quite possibly the most time-consuming part of the eye exam/surgery. Many facilities choose to combine various medications…
Researchers suggest catastrophizing, the act of thinking of events as a catastrophe, is a strong predictor of whether an individual's acute pain after surgery or an injury will evolve into chronic pain, according to a news report by MedPage Today.
Enhanced environmental cleaning of hospital intensive care units could potentially reduce MRSA and VRE transmission, according to research findings published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.