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HHS is moving ahead quickly on several key regulations for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that had been on hold until after the election, according to The Hill's Healthwatch report.

Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., is non-profit, non-sectarian hospital.

Transversus abdominis planes are increasingly being used for postsurgical pain control, and new data supports using the EXPAREL device from Pacira Pharmaceuticals, according to Herald Online.

Anesthesiologist Terence Robertson has joined Bothwell Regional Health Center in Sedalia, Mo., according to the Sedalia News Journal.

Penn State Hershey (Pa.) Medical Center has opened its nearly $207 million new Penn State Hershey (Pa.) Children's Hospital, according to a WHTM report.

Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center announced that after Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast two weeks ago, the hospital deployed its Mobile Satellite Emergency Department to help patients in need.

Princeton Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala., part of Birmingham-based Baptist Health System, has opened its new $57 million expansion, according to an Alabama Live report.

Outrage from physicians over the cost of a new cancer drug called Zaltrap has led the drug company to reduce its price by half, according to a New York Times report.

Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington, Conn., will have to relocate its cancer center under a proposed partnership with Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital and Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, according to a Register Citizen report.

The University of California, San Diego will close its Nevada Cancer Institute in Las Vegas by the end of the year, according to a Las Vegas Review-Journal report.