by Ilene MacDonald, Leslie Small | FierceHealthcare Jan 31, 2017 11:47am President Donald Trump’s new executive order aiming to reduce the number of federal regulations could be good for the healthcare industry, according to health policy experts interviewed by FierceHealthcare. The [...]
Rare but life-threatening risk with chlorhexidine gluconate products. by John Gever Managing Editor, MedPage Today February 02, 2017 WASHINGTON -- Antiseptic solutions, washes, sponges, and other products containing chlorhexidine gluconate may carry a slight risk of causing severe allergic reactions including [...]
By DENISE GRADY JAN. 24, 2017 NY Times Drugs approved in recent years that can cure hepatitis C may have severe side effects, including liver failure, a new report suggests. The number of adverse events appears relatively small, and the findings [...]
January 24, 201711:13 AM ET Susan Brink – NPR You've probably heard of antibiotic resistance — germs that can resist the drugs designed to wipe them out. Now there's a new kind of resistance to worry about — fungal infections that [...]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today (Jan. 31,2017) that its laboratory analysis found inconsistent amounts of belladonna, a toxic substance, in certain homeopathic teething tablets, sometimes far exceeding the amount claimed on the label. The agency is warning consumers that [...]
by Evan Sweeney | FierceHealthIT Jan 27, 2017 11:52am After years of using a telehealth platform to allow clinicians to consult with one another, one of New York's largest health systems is taking steps to open the service up to patients. [...]
by Evan Sweeney | FierceHealth Jan 26, 2017 10:33am An announcement from the White House freezing all new and pending federal regulations has forced the Department of Health and Human Services to withdraw a dozen rules, including one in which the [...]
by Evan Sweeney | FierceHealthIT Jan 23, 2017 10:28am Using “virtual sitter” technology, a North Carolina health system has eliminated patient falls and injuries among a cohort of neuroscience patients. During a three-month pilot study, Mission Health in Asheville, North Carolina, [...]
by Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News | Dec 21, 2016 9:44am This story originally appeared in Kaiser Health News. Five years ago, Ira Kirschenbaum, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon in the Bronx who replaces more than 200 knees each year, would have [...]
by Paige Minemyer | Jan 5, 2017 4:06pm The Department of Veterans Affairs has made significant progress with its efforts to reduce methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) at its facilities. The research, published in the American Journal of Infection Control, found that [...]