Organizers of a Feb. 27 symposium on women in surgery at the University of South Florida hope to raise women's current 6 percent share of the surgeon population, according to a release from the University of South Florida.

Around 175 nurses from across Florida rallied in Tallahassee to ask state lawmakers to base nurse-to-patient ratios on patient acuity, according to a report in the St. Petersburg Times.

On Feb. 11, David Thoene, managing member of Medical Surgical Partners, presented a Webinar titled "Hospital-Doctor Joint Ventures: A Highly Efficient Physician-Engagement Tool" that highlighted reasons for and benefits of creating hospital-physician ASC joint ventures.Mr. Thoene began the presentation by…

In a nationwide Zogby International-University of Texas Health Science Center poll, 57 percent said Congress should start over with health reform legislation and 56.4 percent think reforms should be introduced step-by-step, according to a report by The Hill.

A review by Johns Hopkins researchers recently published in the journal Critical Care, says although it's clear that use of aviation-like safety checklists based on scientific evidence can work and that more hospitals should use them to help prevent errors…

Tufts Medical Center's new plan to increase the number of patients assigned to each nurse, saving $3 million a year, is encountering opposition from some nurses, according to a report by the Boston Globe.

Surgeons at St. Mary Medical Center in Hobart, Ind., have performed the first surgeries at the hospital using Transoral Incisionless Fundoplication for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease, according to a report in The Chronicle.

A recent survey of members of the California Medical Association found that although almost all of them would like to see some sort of health reform, they are evenly divided over which kind, according to a report by California Physician.

A new bill in the California legislature would loosen the state's unusually tough restrictions against hospitals hiring physicians, seen as a barrier against building integrated health systems, according to a report by the Fresno Bee.

Approximately 12 million doses of the Sanofi Pasteur monovalent 2009 (H1N1) influenza vaccine in pre-filled syringes will have a shorter expiration period than indicated on the label, according to a health alert by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.