Takeda Pharmaceuticals has agreed to pay nearly $13.7 million to resolve allegations that it paid illegal kickbacks to healthcare providers to induce prescriptions of its antidepressant Trintellix, ...

Spine surgery is rapidly evolving as minimally invasive procedures, robotics, motion-preserving implants and AI-driven technologies transform how complex spinal conditions are treated.  Across the ...

Northwoods Surgery Center in Virginia, Minn., disclosed a data breach impacting its network, according to a May 8 report from Claim Depot.  An investigation determined that an unauthorized party ...

Fayetteville, N.C.-based Cumberland County Hospital System has filed a certificate-of-need application to relocate 11 operating rooms from Fayetteville Ambulatory Surgery Center to Cape Fear Valley ...

A New Haven, Conn.-based Yale School of Medicine study published May 11 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found anesthesia may resemble both sleep and coma states in the brain, ...

After more than a decade of constraints, physician-owned hospitals may be on the verge of a resurgence, driven by new federal payment models and pending legislation. CMS opens the door CMS’ new ...

For generations, the independent physician practice was a cornerstone of American medicine. Today, it is nearly extinct. Only 18% of physicians still practice in physician-owned settings as of January ...

Sault Ste. Marie-based MyMichigan Medical Center Sault plans to expand its outpatient surgery department as part of a nearly $19 million renovation project at its downtown campus. The project includes ...

When Dare Meeks, MSN, RN, became chief nursing officer at SCA Health in 2019, she set out to build a culture wherein every nurse, technician and administrator feels not just allowed to speak up, but ...

Cecil Borel III, MD, a professor emeritus at Duke Anesthesiology and pioneer in neurocritical care, has died at age 75.  At Duke, Dr. Borel established a neuroanesthesiology program and a ...

Obstetrics & Gynecology has notified patients that it will be closing, according to a May 13 patient letter posted on the practice’s Facebook page. The practice, which includes six physicians, said it ...