Cerner Corp. has partnered with Deffenbaugh Industries, a Kansas City, Kan.-based waste and recycling service company, to develop an employee health and wellness center at the Deffenbaugh headquarters, according to a Cerner news release.
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The Food and Drug Administration has placed a clinical hold on Johnson & Johnson's nerve growth factor inhibitor drug fulranumab due to a possible association with a condition that could lead to a need for total joint replacements, according to…
Dey, a pharmaceutical manufacturer based in Basking Ridge, N.J., has agreed to pay $280 million to the federal government to settle allegations it violated the False Claims Act, according to a Department of Justice news release.
Betty Lichtenstein of Norwalk, Conn., has been sentenced to one year of imprisonment following a guilty plea to criminal impersonation, practicing medicine without a proper nursing license and second-degree forgery, according to a CT Post news report.
As Medicare's Competitive Bidding Program gears up for its Saturday launch, critics renew their warnings that the program will put patients in jeopardy, according to a Press-Enterprise report.
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A new report from Piribo forecasts global demand for medical disposable products to increase 5.5 percent annually through 2014, driven by wound management supplies, and diagnostic and lab disposables.
Lower-cost generic medical devices may become more widespread in coming years, according to a white paper published by business intelligence consulting firm Fuld & Company.
Incoming Florida Gov. Rick Scott has announced he will eliminate the Office of Drug Control once he takes office as part of his plan to contain wasteful government spending, according to a Miami Herald report.
Incorporating new data from the third quarter of 2010, the AHA's RACTrac survey of participating hospitals made the following findings about denials by Medicare recovery audit contractors in the first three quarters of 2010.
Three wrong-level spinal surgeries at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston from September to October show the challenge of identifying correct vertebrae even at one of the better hospitals, according to a news report by the Boston Globe.