If the emergency drive is needed during treatment, it could fail to work, putting patients at risk of ischemia, hypoxia, stroke or death.

Several MD members of Congress are co-sponsoring the “Physician Fee Schedule Update and Improvements Act." 

“Any action that would increase medical liability costs carries the potential negative consequence of physicians leaving our state to practice elsewhere," the two said. 

Some 44 nurses from Seattle Children’s Hospital have signed onto a letter attributing the chaos to a “systemic crisis in pediatric mental health.”

“It is our firm belief that such a classification does a disservice to patients," the American Society of Neuroradiology, Society for Interventional Radiology and others wrote recently. 

Another two-thirds of physicians reported having little or no involvement in practice management policies, according to a survey conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago.  

RBMA President Kit Crancer said continued cuts will result in Medicare patients losing access to care when health systems and providers determine it is no longer economical.

Three months after an FDA panel declared a popular cold remedy no more effective than a sugar pill, a House oversight panel wants to ask FDA leadership a pointed question: What took you so long?