Robotic surgery with CO2 laser articulating fibers permits removal of Essure without invasive surgery.
Integration & Physician Issues
The Association of American Medical Colleges President and CEO Darrell Kirch, MD, will step down June 30, 2019.
Police identified the victim of a fatal vehicular crash Monday afternoon as Juergen Willmann, MD, a radiologist, professor of radiology and division chief of body imaging at the Stanford (Calif.) University School of Medicine, NBC Bay Area reports.
The U.S. Coast Guard ended its search Monday evening for John William Kinsinger, MD, an Oklahoma City-based Integris Baptist Medical Center-affiliated anesthesiologist whose plane disappeared over the Gulf of Mexico last week, NewsOK reports.
Although burnout is a well-documented issue for physicians across the U.S., half of physicians reported they are "extremely" or "very" happy with their personal lives, according to Medscape's 2018 Physician Lifestyle & Happiness Report.
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Amelia Gallitano, MD, PhD, a physician and scientist at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, received a grant to develop a test that could easily identify if a patient is schizophrenic, according to EurekAlert.com.
Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center placed a third-year resident on leave in early November following complaints by a patient's mother regarding his activism on social media, The Chronicle reports.
Google celebrated the life and work of Har Gobind Khorana, PhD, an Indian-American geneticist whose pioneering research concerning DNA sequences earned him and two of his colleagues the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968, with a Google Doodle…
The Joint Commission granted Kaneohe-based Hawaii State Hospital re-accreditation for another three years, Hawaii News Now reports.
A focus on quality outcomes, efficient care delivery and cost reduction is the driving force behind virtually every healthcare organization’s performance improvement goals. Yet, for all of the talk about value-based care and its power to transform both clinical and…