The Tennessee Commission on Pain and Addiction Medicine Education will provide guidelines for medical education institutions to use to prevent future clinicians from overprescribing opioids, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Alabama, Connecticut, and Tennessee.
The Drug Enforcement Administration on Tuesday updated a regulation to allow NPs and physician assistants (PAs) to apply for waivers to prescribe and dispense buprenorphine—a move that experts say will boost access to care in rural communities.
Bon Secours Health System's Care-A-Van, a 38-foot long mobile clinic, provides no-cost treatment to thousands of patients a year in Virginia who might not otherwise receive basic medical care.
Healthgrades this week honored 250 hospitals with its "2018 Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence," recognizing facilities that performed in the top 5% nationwide based on risk-adjusted clinical outcomes for more than 20 common procedures and conditions.
U.S. hospitals currently are facing a shortage of intravenous fluid bags used to dilute patient medications and rehydrate patients that is being exacerbated by the nation's virulent influenza season—and they are adopting innovative strategies to continue providing patient care.
Under the research initiative, called the Somatic Cell Genome Editing program, NIH plans to award roughly $190 million in research grants over the next six years to focus on genome-editing technology.
Videos are circulating on social media of a new fad dubbed the "Tide Pod Challenge," in which people eat the brightly-colored liquid laundry detergent packets. Experts warn the stunt could be lethal.
