CMS released the results for its 2014 Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality Reporting Program, which cited the states with the highest rates and lowest rates for patient burn.
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The FDA removed some paperwork physicians are required to complete to obtain experimental drugs for certain patients with immediately life-threatening illnesses, according to Kaiser Health Mews.
Boston Children's Hospital researchers have developed and tested the Global Assessment of Pediatric Patient Safety trigger tool to aid in medical adverse event tracking, according to Health Leaders Media.
The FDA's Anesthetic and Analgesic Drug Products Advisory Committee and Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee have recommended the approval of Teva Pharmaceutical's VANTRELA ER, according to a Street Insider report.
The Rockefeller University’s Heilbrunn Family Center for Research Nursing in New York City will award five U.S. nurses the 2016 Heilbrunn Nurse Scholar Awards.
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A Sao Paulo, Brazil-based research group predicted no more than 15 Zika infections will occur at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, much lower than the 1,400 cases of microcephaly already reported in Brazil, according to Yahoo! Sports.
Planetree selected Tampa, Fla.-based Laser Spine Institute to participate in its patient-centered outcomes research project, as a part of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute's $249,000 Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award. PCORI granted the award to Planetree.
Throughout the United States, surgeons have used Stryker's SurgiCount Safety Sponges in an estimated 10 million surgeries in the past five years.
World Health Organization officials have found more than 1,000 infants have been linked to Zika and microcephaly, and could also suffer from a wide range of neurological abnormalities other than microcephaly, according to The New York Times.
This year's Senate spending bill allotted an additional $2 billion to the National Institute of Health, bringing the agency's total budget to nearly $34 billion, according to The Hill.