SCAI examines how race, ethnicity and gender affect patients’ outcomes.

Hospital-acquired infections are a serious concern for physicians and patients alike—they can be deadly, especially as antibiotic resistance grows, and their rate of incidence can be an important metric for CMS and other consumer reports when rating hospital quality and safety. And that’s not to mention the potential personal and legal risk some physicians could face. 

Rural areas hit hard by the rise in opioid addiction often lack the needed treatment expertise, but health professionals may have a solution: video chat.

MILAN, Oct. 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (NYSE: EW), the global leader in patient-focused innovations for structural heart disease and critical care monitoring, today announced it received CE Mark for its Acumen Hypotension Probability Indicator (HPI), a breakthrough technology that alerts clinicians to potential hypotension, or abnormally low blood pressure, in their surgical and critical care patients before it occurs. HPI is only compatible with Edwards' minimally invasive, hemodynamic monitoring solutions.

Analgesic Solutions, a consulting and clinical research company with a focus in trails involving pain management, has introduced a central statistical surveillance tool for the monitoring of assay sensitivity within clinical trials.

Americans aren’t happy with a lot of things these days, including the prices of their prescription drugs, Fortune reported. A survey from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation in September found that 77 percent think prescription drug costs are too high. That figure is up from 72 percent who had the same complaint last year.

Invictus Medical, a manufacturer of medical devices for the improvement of healthy development for newborns, has received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Phase II grant to further develop its noise attenuation technology.

While palliative care is offered at most hospitals, with growing consensus it can improve the quality of life for seriously ill patients, few facilities have the staff needed to effectively carry out these programs.