The Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City has announced plans to establish the Hospital for Special Surgery Genomics Center using a $5.6 million grant from The Tow Foundation.
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Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, a Wolters Kluwer Health company, launched an interactive, mobile version of the anesthesiology text "Clinical Anesthesia, Seventh Edition."
American Society of Anesthesiologists President John Zerwas, MD, wrote a letter to the editor about intraoperative awareness while under anesthesia that was published in the April issue of The Atlantic.
TYRX, a company that commercializes implantable medical devices intended to help reduce surgical site infections, has announced that the first implantation of its new AIGISRx R Fully Resorbable Antibacterial Envelope has taken place at the Quebec Heart and Lung Institute…
St. Vincent Charity Medical Center in Cleveland and the Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron (Ohio) announced a strategic innovation partnership to help surgeons develop and commercialize new solutions.
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Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai announced Zhenqiu Liu, PhD, has joined the health system to study personalized medicine based on DNA.
Heritage Provider Network, a provider of affordable quality healthcare, has announced the end of submissions for its $3 million Heritage Health Prize competition.
There are few certainties in healthcare, but one is that hospitals will generally be facing an increasingly older population. And with age comes more chronically and severely ill patients.
In a session at the American College of Healthcare Executives’ 2013 Congress on Healthcare Leadership on March 13 in Chicago, Molly J. Coyle, MD, chief innovation officer for UCLA Health System, discussed the importance of innovation in healthcare, including the…
As an individual sector, healthcare is one of the largest consumers of energy.