The Premier healthcare alliance offers a free chemical and bioterrorism preparedness checklist from the American Hospital Association to help hospitals assess their preparedness for chemical and biological incidents.
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The director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Carolyn Clancy, MD, plans to step down, according to an AHA News Now report.
Colorado health facilities improved their infection rates in 2012 from 2011, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Minnesota ambulatory surgery centers and hospitals did not have a significant change in the number of adverse events from 2011 to 2012, according to a Minnesota Department of Health report.
The Steadman Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas will offer services to the Powdersville Medical Center in Greenville, S.C., according to a Powdersville Post report.
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Chris Leslie, DO, an orthopedic sports medicine physician, has been inducted into the 2012 Missouri Sports Hall of Fame, according to a Lake News report.
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A new study published online in Molecular Psychiatry has found that when physicians effectively relieve their patients' pain, the region of their brain activity mirrored that of a patient experiencing a placebo effect, according to a Popular Science report.
Medical device company Medtronic has introduced in Europe a line of spinal cord stimulators for chronic back and leg pain that are compatible with magnetic resonance imaging, according to American News Report.
Fourth-quarter profit at device manufacturer Zimmer Holdings dropped 2.4 percent in its 2012 fiscal year, from $156.6 million last year to $152.8 million this year.