A state representative plans to introduce in early 2010 legislation that would increase the punishment for assaulting nurses in the workplace.

While EMRs can help clinicians within the same practice, “they may have unintended consequences for care coordination, such as creating information overload that complicates providers’ efforts to discern key clinical information,” the Commonwealth Fund says.

University of Cincinnati laryngologist Dr. Sid Khosla and other researchers will use a 5-year, $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue interdisciplinary partnerships studying the causes of severe voice disorders and the most effective ways to treat them.

The Food and Drug Administration, urged by Congress, has already taken a harder line on 510(k)s. Which makes it only a matter of time before the agency, wary of another Sprint Fidelis debacle, sets its sights on PMA supplements.

Dr. Firouz Daneshgari and his colleagues at University Hospitals Case Medical Center are creating an urological institute — a cross-disciplinary family of eight centers from female pelvic surgery to oncology to men’s health that will work together to help patients deal with urological problems that can rob them of quality of life, especially as they get older.

Early stage company Martell Biosystems is looking to reel in $3 million in venture capital to develop an in vitro blood test for cancer.

House Bill 384 would bring Ohio law up to federal standards regarding when insurers would be required to cover the use of off-label drugs, according to its sponsor.

Cardiologists sue to fight Medicare cuts for routine procedures. Dr. Wes says health care reformers are targeting specialists in their quest to save dollars.

A Cuyahoga County judge denied a motion for judicial release from 41-year-old Eric Cropp, a former pharmacist at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital.

Some eyebrows were lifted skyward when the traditionally conservative American Medical Association, which opposed the creation of Medicare in the 1960s, came out in favor of Democrats’ plans to overhaul the U.S. health system.