Beginning next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over the legality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. They must first consider whether or not the challenge can move forward and then if the individual mandate is or…
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Benvenue Medical in Santa Clara, Calif., a developer of minimally invasive solutions for spine repair, has announced the active enrollment of patients in the Luna Interbody System for Fusion Trial.
HHS has announced a contest, "Now Trending - #Health in My Community," challenging Web developers to create Web-based applications that use Twitter to track health trends in real time.
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A New Jersey proposal would instate approximately 1,000 price codes controlling how much physicians, surgery centers and hospitals can charge for outpatient treatments for auto accidents, while abolishing another 117 price controls due to physician backlash, according to an NJ.com…
A California court last week ruled that nurses trained to administer anesthetics can give them to patients without physician supervision, according to a San Francisco Chronicle report.
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Alphatec Spine announced that Michael Plunkett has been named the company's vice president of operations.
Lehigh Valley Health Network has become a sponsor of the Allentown (Pa.) Phantoms minor league hockey team and will open a sports medicine center near the team's new arena, according to a report from The Morning Call.