With the Senate Finance Committee expected to vote on its health reform bill as early as Tuesday, medical devicemakers are asking for a reduction in fees on medical devices in the bill from $40 billion to $15 billion over the…
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Physicians at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wis., have raised concerns about a proposed change to the University's conflict-of-interest rules that would allow physicians to make presentations for medical device manufacturers, but still ban physicians from giving speeches for…
Blue Cross Blue Shield has notified physicians and other healthcare providers that data, including Social Security numbers, may have been compromised when a laptop containing the information was stolen in August from an employee at BCBS Association's headquarters in Chicago,…
The FDA has approved additional indications for EquivaBone, a hard-setting osteoinductive osteoinductive bone graft substitute from Etex Corp., according to a release from Etex.
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is proposing a 0.5 percent increase in Medicare reimbursements for physicians in 2011 and 2012, rather than a one-year fix in reimbursements proposed by Sen. Max Baucus in his health reform bill, according to a…
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A new study finds that patients needing a second anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction were likely to be women, younger or those using less experienced surgeons, according to a release by the Hospital for Special Surgery.
Wound Management Technologies has completed its acquisition of Resorbable Orthopedics, maker of resorbable bone wax and a delivery system for orthopedic bone void fillers, according to a release from the company.
Researchers at Loyola University Health System have found that high-risk orthopedic surgery patients had significantly shorter hospital stays when seen by hospitalists trained in managing complications from surgery, according to a release by Loyola University Health System.
R. Blake Curd, MD, an orthopedic surgeon who is co-owner of the Sioux Falls (S.D.) Surgical Hospital, has announced his Republican candidacy for South Dakota's only U.S. House seat, according to a release from Dr. Curd.
Physicians are attempting to remove a provision in the Senate Finance Reform Committee's healthcare reform bill that would penalize physicians who administer the most tests and treatments to their patients, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.