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WVU Hospitals in Morgantown, W.Va., is considering trading physicians' white coats and ties for professional-looking scrubs to prevent infections, according to a Charleston Daily Mail report.

Improving outpatient care in an effort to reduce preventable acute-care visits may not reduce healthcare costs significantly, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Clostridium difficile colitis, an inflammation of the colon associated with C. difficile, has increased 47 percent from the 2001-2005 period to the 2006-2010 period, according to a study in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Milwaukee-based Ministry Health Care announced that Ann Chizek-Liermann, NP, has joined Northland Orthopedic & Sports Medicine in Rhinelander, Wis.

The Hip Society has named six winners of its 2013 John Charnley Award, according to an AAOS News Now report.

Medication adherence among populations of patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes has improved 3 to 4 percent since 2009, according to a report released by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics.

ulrich medical announced the United States market release of the rectangular lateral endplates for the obslisc Vertebral Body Replacement.

Orthofix has realigned its business to now include BioStim, spine fixation, biologics, international extremity fixation and extremity fixation in the United States.

A new assessment of the global medical ceramics market has been released from TechNavio.

Wilford K. Gibson, MD, FACS, FAAOS is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist in private practice with Atlantic Orthopaedic Specialists. He practices at Sentara Leigh Hospital in Norfolk, Va. Dr. Gibson earned his medical degree from the Medical…