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The biosimilar market is booming with many leading companies including AbbVie and Roche launching new products to combat diseases like cancer and diabetes.

To lower healthcare-acquired infections, Mark Sklansky, MD, introduced the handshake-free zone, according to Kaiser Health News.

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins researchers said providers can employ certain strategies to lower ventilator-associated events, according to Morningside Maryland.

Health officials are warning Zika may resurface this summer, although they are not sure how large of a threat the virus poses at this point, according to Kaiser Health News.

Johnson & Johnson will pay 42 states and Washington, D.C. $33 million through a settlement to resolve claims that the company misrepresented manufacturing practices for several of its over-the-counter drugs, according to The New York Times.

UCLA researchers identified antibiotic-resistant superbugs in four parks throughout California, according to Medical Xpress. The concentration varied across the four parks, but researchers noted all four city parks had high quantities of antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

Kaiser Health News reports clinicians waste a large sum of money and risk patient harm when they order unnecessary tests and treatments.

When providers do not adhere to antisepsis protocols, they put patients' lives at risk, according to STAT.

To learn how to improve physician error disclosure rates, researchers could benefit from looking into social psychology literature, according to a new study published in Medical Education.  

March, April 2017 Issue of Becker’s Hospital Review On the Cover Should Medicare Allow Total Joints in ASCs?Outpatient total joint replacements are gaining steam; physicians across the country are preforming outpatient total joints in hospitals as well as ASCs. Click here…