Democrats in Congress are losing interest in several healthcare bills meant to follow up on the reform law, as members of both chambers face challenging fall election campaigns, according to a report by the Hill.
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Anika Therapeutics, a developer and manufacturer of therapeutic products for tissue protection, healing, repair and regeneration, has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has removed restrictions placed upon the company following its acceptance of corrective actions put forth…
Beth A. Johnson is the vice president of clinical systems for Blue Chip Surgical Partners.
When most healthcare providers refer to patient-reported outcomes, they think of patient satisfaction scores and reports of complications following surgery. However, these two metrics alone may not be enough for healthcare providers as they face challenges set up by the…
Alice Coombs, MD, of Sharon, Mass., an anesthesiologist and critical care physician at South Shore Hospital, has been named as president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, according to a report in The Boston Herald.
The American Medical Association and a separate coalition of 11 medical societies have thrown their support behind the Healthcare Truth and Transparency Act of 2010, introduced by Representatives John Sullivan (R-Okla.) and David Scott (D-Ga.).
Researchers from the University of Vienna in Austria found that single-use paraffin earplugs were successful in reducing intraoperative awareness recall in patients undergoing elective orthopedic surgery, according to an article in Minerva Anesthesiologica.
BioMedGPS, a provider of online business intelligence for life science executives, reports that the U.S. market for cartilage repair and replacement technologies will reach $44.5 million in 2010 and grow at a rate of 6.8 percent to $57.9 million in…
New provisions to crack down on fraud could help the federal government surpass the $2.9 billion in Medicare and Medicaid overpayments recovered last year, a 29 percent increase from the year before, according to a release from HHS.
Some Congressional leaders' hopes of finally passing a five-year Medicare physician fee fix could be dashed once again this month, as lawmakers prepare to avert a 21.3 percent fee cut on June 1, according to a report by The Hill.…