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CHICAGO — Becker's Orthopedic & Spine Review has announced "50 of the Best Spine Specialists in America," profiling top spine surgeons, physicians and innovators in the country.

The Food and Drug Administration may toughen is approval process for 510(k) clearance for medical devices, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The move causes concern for medical device makers who worry that tightened approval processes could…

Bay Pines (Fla.) VA Medical Center is constructing a new medical building that will include an ASC and eye treatment center, according to a report by the Seminole Beacon.

Kansas City, Mo.-based Cerner Corp. has announced a record number of bookings in the fourth quarter of 2009, up 68 percent to $680.4 million from fourth quarter 2009. Net revenue for the quarter was $466.3 million and net earnings were…

Cameron J. Justice of Crum, W.Va., owner and president of Justice Medical Complex, with conspiracy to misuse a physicians registration number and aiding and abetting healthcare fraud, according to a report in The Charleston Gazette.

Glaucoma medications were associated with a reduced likelihood of death in U.S. adults with glaucoma, according to a study published in the February issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology.

A recent survey of members of the California Medical Association found that although almost all of them would like to see some sort of health reform, they are evenly divided over which kind, according to a report by California Physician.

The Moorestown, N.J., planning board has approved a $50 million ambulatory care center proposal by Virtua that will be a "one-stop shop" for this South Jersey community, according to the Courier Post.

The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services has issued a request for proposals seeking two managed care organizations to provide Medicaid covered services to some 40,000 individuals in suburban Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kankaee, Lake and Will counties, according to…

The FDA unveiled an initiative to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from CT scans, nuclear medicine studies and fluoroscopy, the three procedures that are the greatest contributors to radiation exposure in the U.S., according to an FDA press release.