A study published by the American Academy of Pain Medicine in the December, 2012, issue of Pain Medicine Journal shows that minimally invasive lumbar decompression is safe in the long term and effective.
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New York City will restrict the prescription of painkillers in emergency rooms at the city's 11 public hospitals, according to a New York Times report.
David Sellers is vice president of clinical research at Proventix Systems, Inc., a healthcare technology company based in Birmingham, Alabama. that produces nGage™, an electronic hand-hygiene monitoring system. As a registered nurse, former public health advisor for the Centers for…
Dotty Bollinger, RN, JD, is the chief operating officer at the Laser Spine Institute in Tampa, Fla. She formerly served as the company's chief medical operations officer and chief compliance officer.
St. Louis-based Mobius Therapeutics announced a voluntary recall of two lots of Mitosol, (mitomycin for solution), 0.2 mg/vial, Kit for Ophthalmic Use because it cannot exclude the possibility that the lots may be non-sterile.
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Intensive care units that were led by intensivists had a decreased mortality rate for sepsis patients compared with ICUs using an open model, according to a study in Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
The rate of pressure ulcers at a surgical intensive care unit decreased by 65.6 percent through the establishment of a turn team that turned patients every two hours, according to a study in Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
Hand hygiene compliance at 20 central Ohio hospitals increased by nearly 200 percent over two years through a collaborative project, according to a report by the Ohio Hospital Association's Central Ohio Hospital Quality Collaborative.
A recent study published in the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery shows that obese patients have poorer outcomes after both surgical and non-surgical treatment for lumbar disc herniation.
Mesoblast, a regenerative medicine company, has announced the results of a Phase 2 clinical trial for lumbar spinal fusions using the company's NeoFuse product.