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Omega Laboratories is the first and only laboratory to receive 510(k) clearance from the FDA for its Extended Opiates Test that can detect the use of oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, morphine and heroin through human hair analysis, according to a news…

The number of drug poisoning deaths involving opioid analgesics more than tripled from 1999-2008 and opioid analgesic were involved in more than 40 percent of all drug poisoning deaths in 2008, according to a CDC report.

Here are the top five states with the highest and lowest numbers of active physicians as of November, according to the latest data from Kaiser State Health Facts.

A new fact sheet (pdf) by CMS is designed to ease the shift to HIPAA Version 5010, according to a HIMSS news release.

An expert panel of pain management physicians determined that ziconotide, a non-opioid and non-NSAID analgesic, should be the first-line spinal treatment of nociceptive and neuropathic chronic pain at the 2011 Polyanalgesic Consensus Conference, according to a news release.

Jack D'Angelo, MD, past president of the Richmond County Medical Society in New York, says patient safety is the most important thing to prevent opioid misuse, abuse and diversion, according to a Staten Island Advance report.

Former male elite athletes have a higher rate of hip and knee osteoarthritis and arthroplasty than previously expected, according to an article published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

Five pain management physicians discuss what legislators can do regarding current healthcare legislation to positively impact pain management.

Srdjan Mirkovic, MD, a spinal consultant for the Chicago Bears, recently performed spine surgery on Bears receiver Johnny Knox, according to a Chicago Sun-Times news report.

The following hospital executive moves occurred within the past week, beginning with the most recent.