California Hospitals Fined for Safety Violations
California's Department of Public Health has fined 18 hospitals $25,000 per incident for failing to comply with state laws overseeing patient safety...
What Happens When Opioids Backfire?
It's a rare and challenging pain management paradox: opioid drugs, designed to relieve acute and chronic pain, can have the reverse effect in some p...
Safer, Synthetic Heparin Developed
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., have built the largest dose of synthetic heparin ever created in a lab. The developme...
Beginning Jan. 1, Medicare will no longer pay ASCs a higher facility fee than hospitals receive for the same procedure. Here's what you need to know about the congressionally mandated reduction in ASC payment rates for 274 procedures.
