The majority of Americans expect the Supreme Court justices to base their ruling on the healthcare reform law on their ideological views rather than their interpretation of the law, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation news release.
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In October, President Barack Obama signed an executive order aiming to reduce the current shortage of several critical medications, including a number of drugs used by anesthesiologists to sedate patients and control pain. The order enhances the Federal Drug Administration's…
A new study published in the Feb. 2012 issue of Anesthesiology found that the type of lipid emulsion used to reverse toxicity of local anesthetics may change the effectiveness of the reversal, according to a Newswise report.
North American Partners in Anesthesia will be an exhibitor at the American Society of Anesthesiologists Practice Management Conference, according to a NAPA news release.
The Supreme Court has denied conservative group Freedom Watch's motion seeking to exclude Justice Elena Kagan from participating in the appeals over the constitutionality of healthcare reform, according to a New York Times report.
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A recent article in the Salt Lake Tribune questioned whether a physician group's adoption of TomaTherapy treatment was really as innovative as the group claimed, or "a step above" other systems.
A new tracking and hiring system, called SelecTrak, can help employers monitor candidate applicants.
Unemployed adults aged 18 to 64, regardless of whether they have health insurance, are more likely to have poorer physical and mental health than employed adults, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Iowa Senator Charles Grassley is ramping up efforts to monitor over-prescribing physicians who abuse the country's Medicaid program, and he has mailed letters to 34 states expressing his concern, according to a ProPublica report.
Congressional conferees began formal talks on how to avert the looming 27.4 percent Medicare pay reductions to physicians due to the sustainable growth rate, according to an Inside Health Policy report.