Introduction When I first started practicing gastroenterology, most of our endoscopy patients received 50 mg of meperidine and 2 mg of midazolam, and they did just fine. Not any more. More and more of ...

Dallas-based Steward Health Care filed a lawsuit July 15 in bankruptcy court against its former chairman and CEO, Ralph de la Torre, MD, alleging insider transactions and mismanagement drained its ...

Physician pay can vary widely depending on specialty, and whether they work in an academic or non-academic setting, according to survey data from Marit Health, a salary transparency platform for ...

A federal jury in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania found Drexel University and Drexel University School of Medicine not liable in a lawsuit brought by Sharon Griswold, MD, an emergency medicine ...

Cambridge, Mass.-based Harvard University topped U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 list of the best universities for cardiac and cardiovascular systems in the U.S. The ranking was published in June as ...

UnitedHealth Group and Amedisys reached a proposed final settlement with the U.S. Justice Department and attorneys general from Maryland, Illinois, New Jersey and New York to resolve an antitrust ...

Trinity Health Michigan has appointed Caesar Gonzales II, MD, to serve as its next chief clinical officer, according to an Aug. 6 report from WHMI.  Dr. Gonzales is a practicing anesthesiologist and ...

Patients with Fontan circulatory failure face higher mortality risk while awaiting or after undergoing heart transplantation, if they have certain health complications, according to a multi-center ...

A cardiologist in Lubbock, Texas, has agreed to pay $1.2 million to resolve allegations that he violated the Controlled Substances Act.  Juan Kurdi, MD, is an interventional cardiologist who co-owned ...

Compass Surgical Partners and Synergen Health have entered into a strategic collaboration for Synergen to serve as the end-to-end provider of RCM services for Compass. Synergen will provide financial ...

Lake Havasu City, Ariz.-based Convergence Health Outpatient Surgery Center marked its opening Tuesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, according to an Aug. 7 RiverScene Magazine report. The facility is ...

Virtual reality could help reduce stress in people with or at risk for cardiovascular disease, according to an Aug. 6 news release from Los Angles-based UCLA Health.  In a pilot study published in ...