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NewsNurse sues hospital after losing fingers, legs to infection
With increasing numbers of patients presenting to the ED, it seems inevitable that staff could miss something critical. Such was the case with Jean Law, a nurse at Florida's Baptist Medical Center Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Revised study still finds that FDA approval rush may cause harm
Harvard University professor Daniel Carpenter has come out with a revised version of a study concluding that drugs moving too quickly through the FDA approval process are more likely to be linked to Read more...
CA lawmakers push for tougher plastic surgery rules
Driven in part by the death of the mother of hip-hop star Kanye West, who was getting liposuction and breast implant surgery, California physicians and lawmakers are pushing to tighten up regulation Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Nurse practitioners play big role in TN; CT hospital construction project creates collapse danger; and much more...
> Nurse practitioners are playing an increasingly important role in Tennessee, which is considering expanding the roles NPs can fill. Read more...
| Press ReleasesNational Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety Expert Says U.S. Healthcare 'Not as Safe' as Americans BelieveSAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 11, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- A new tool for measuring patient safety shows that the American healthcare system "isn't as safe as we thought it was," according to David Classen, MD, Read more >> Institute of Medicine Will Study Best Policies and Practices for Improving Health Care Safety with Health Information TechWASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Institute of Medicine (IOM) will conduct a 1-year study aimed at ensuring that health information technology (HIT) will achieve its full potential for improving Read more >> |
