Healthcare Summit to Cover Medical Marijuana, New Medicare Payment System

Healthcare Summit to Cover Medical Marijuana, New Medicare Payment System

This two-day conference, Dec. 6-7, will be headquartered at the Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City, Arlington, Va. “ Medical Marijuana Laws ,” Carmen Catizone, executive director of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, will explore the current tension that exists between state and federal laws on medical marijuana.

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Florida Hospital, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and Takeda Announce Partnership to Target Obesity

Florida Hospital, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham), and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (Takeda), announced today that they have signed a research agreement to form a collaboration to discover and evaluate new therapeutic approaches to obesity, a growing worldwide health problem.

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Medical Device Registries Improve Patient Safety

(Ivanhoe Newswire) â€" A detailed and standardized national registry of commonly used joint replacement devices would improve patient outcomes and create clinical and financial efficiencies, according to this study. Information on the more than 600,000 total knee and hip replacements performed annually in the United States could enhance patient safety and quality of care, as well as providing a ...

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