A new study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine, has found that hip replacements are slightly more likely to fail in women than in men, according to a report by The New York Times.
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Reprocessing programs offer hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers the opportunity to improve patient care and reduce costs by safely sanitizing reusable medical devices, such as certain electrophysiology and cardiovascular devices; general surgery equipment; orthopedic and arthroscopic equipment; and non-invasive devices.…
Richard N.W. Wohns, MD, is the founder, president and neurosurgeon at South Sound Neurosurgery in Puyallup, Wash. He is also the founder of NeoSpine in Nashville. Tenn., a company that develops outpatient spine surgery centers which has been acquired by…
Cleveland Clinic's Marymount Hospital new three-story Surgery Center opened its doors in March of 2012 and has earned LEED certification from the US Green Building Council for energy saving, efficient water usage, recycling efforts, improved air quality and several design…
Here are 10 statistics on orthopedic surgeon compensation. Numbers one through five came from the AMGA Medical Group Compensation and Financial Survey; numbers six through nine came from the 2012 Medscape Orthopedist and Orthopedic Surgeon Compensation Report; number 10 came…
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The Arnold P. Gold Foundation announced the U.S. Senate's approval of a resolution naming Feb. 13, 2013 as National Solidarity Day for Compassionate Patient Care.
Patients tend to dislike discussing healthcare costs with clinicians, despite the potential ability of these discussions to lead to lower costs, according to a study in Health Affairs.
Des Moines-based Iowa Health System offers a free Always Use Teach-back! toolkit to help healthcare providers assess patients' understanding of medical instructions.
Medical device company Medtronic's third quarter fiscal year 2013 net earnings increased by 5.7 percent over the same period in 2012 to $988 million, due in part to growth in cardiac and restorative therapies technology.
The U.S. market for minimally invasive spine technologies is expected to grow to $2 billion by 2017, according to the Millennium Research Group.