In a survey of surgeons commissioned by the American College of Surgeons, 8.9 percent of respondents said they were concerned they had made a "major medical error" in the past three months, according to an article on the survey in…
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The 2,074-page Senate health reform bill, released Nov. 18, proposes a sweeping set of changes in the Medicare program, according to a report in Health Affairs.
Felix H. Cheung, MD, has joined the Holzer Clinic Regional Orthopaedic and Joint Replacement Center in Gallipolis, Ohio, according to a report by the Herald-Dispatch.
David Schlactus, CEO of Willamette (Ore.) Surgery Center and Hope Orthopedics of Oregon in Salem, Ore., set out his concerns with the House and Senate health reform bills in an opinion piece in the Oregonian.
Stryker has initiated a Class 1 recall of 23 Operating Room System II Surgical Navigation Systems, according to a release from Stryker.
Stryker has agreed to buy Ascent Healthcare Solutions, the No. 1 reprocessor of single-use medical devices in the country, according to a release from Stryker.
Chicago-based NeuStrategy and San Diego-based SpineMark recently completed a nationwide survey of hospital-based spine programs to determine best practices of leading spine programs.
The Palo Alto (Calif.) Medical Foundation and Mills-Peninsula Medical Group in Burlingame, Calif., are considering a merger that would create a 1,300 physician group that would cover the Peninsula, Silicon Valley, the East Bay and Santa Cruz areas, according to…
A majority of medical liability premiums has remained stable or dropped in 2009, according to a Medical Liability Monitor survey cited in a report by AMEDNews.
Medtronic saw an 8 percent increase in total revenue and a 4 percent increase in spinal revenue in the second quarter of its fiscal year, compared with the same period last year, according to a report from Medtronic.