Daily Archives: February 25, 2020

FDA Updates Steps to Make Power Morcellators Safer in Surgery

Laparoscopic power morcellation for myomectomy or hysterectomy should only be performed with an approved tissue containment system and only in appropriately selected patients. News Alerts …read more

CMS Aims to Reduce Physician Burden While Improving Quality

The federal agency unveiled new ‘rules of the road’ for setting standards for quality care and its oversight of measures to improve patient safety and reduce physician burden. Medscape Medical News …read more

COVID-19: Time to ‘Take the Risk of Scaring People’

It’s past time to call the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, a pandemic and help people prepare for widespread cases, experts said. Medscape Medical News …read more

Benzodiazepines Implicated in High Rate of ED Visits

Seven out of eight ED visits attributed to adverse events from benzodiazepines involve self-harm or nonmedical use of these drugs. Medscape Medical News …read more