Law requires equality for mental health coverage.(NEWS)
After a 12-year fight led by mental health advocates, patients,
families, clinicians, and a handful of members of Congress,
approximately 113 million Americans will soon have equality of . . .
HT, stroke risk up after hypertension during pregnancy: large
study confirms previous findings.(News)(Clinical report)
WASHINGTON -- Women who had hypertension during pregnancy are at
increased risk for hypertension and stroke after 40 years of age, based
on follow-up data from more than 4,000 women.
The findings . . .
Little financial reward from PQRI.(VITAL SIGNS)(Physician Quality
Reporting Initiative)(Statistical table)(Survey)(Brief article
How has your practice's involvement in the 2007 and/or 2008 PQRI program
affected total physician compensation?
Reduced 5.7%
No change 72.7%
Increased 11.7%
Don't know . . .
Doctors in demand at health centers.(News)(Report)
Experts are calling for an infusion of about 10,000 primary care
physicians into medically underserved areas over the next several years,
even as medical students' interest in primary care has . . .
Clinician's guide on osteoporosis.(FYI)(National
Osteoporosis Foundation )(Brief article)
The National Osteoporosis Foundation is offering a
"Clinician's Guide to Prevention and Treatment of
Osteoporosis." The guide helps health care providers assess
fracture risk and treat patients . . .
Multiple-language CD from NIAMS.(FYI)(The National Institute of
Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)
The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin
Diseases is offering "Easy-to-Read Health Information on Bones,
Muscles, joints, and Skin," for consumers. The CD-ROM . . .
Site offers skin cancer info for
Seniors.(FYI)(www.nihseniorhealth.gov.)(Brief article)
The National Institute of Health's Senior Health Web site has
added information on skin cancer. Seniors can research causes, risk
factors, screening, diagnosis, and treatments. The Web site . . .
Pain relievers.(Cartoon)
"With today's technology, why can't you do my
colonoscopy over the . . .
Indications.(Clinical report)
Whoa, That's Heavy, Man
When 29 young men in Leipzig, Germany, last year presented with
possible poisoning symptoms--stomach cramps, nausea, anemia, and
fatigue--public health doctors and . . .
Regulation of off-label drugs warrants attention.(Practice
Trends)
PHILADELPHIA -- The Food and Drug Administration needs to change
the way it regulates promotion of off-label drug use, according to the
chair of the department of health policy and public health at . . .
Physician groups protest timeline for ICD-10.(Practice
Trends)(International Classification of Diseases)(Chronology)
Officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plan to
replace the ICD-9-CM diagnosis and procedure code set with a
significantly expanded set of codes--the ICD-10--by Oct. 1, 2011.
. . .
WHO recommends steps to reduce global health inequities.(Practice
Trends)(Brief article)
Improving living conditions, reducing income disparities, and
measuring the effects of specific steps to reduce inequities in health
care all are necessary to eliminate the effects that deprivation . . .
Internist abroad: hospitalist practice in New Zealand.(WORLD WIDE
MED)(Interview)
Dr. Clark Parrish is an internal medicine physician with an
outsider's perspective on hospital-based medicine. Although Dr.
Parrish currently practices as a partner in the former Madrona . . .
Many reach 'doughnut hole'.(POLICY &
PRACTICE)(Brief article)
One in four Medicare Part D enrollees who filled prescriptions in
2007 reached the gap in coverage known as the "doughnut hole,"
and most remained in the doughnut hole for the rest of the . . .
Tools' usefulness limited.(POLICY & PRACTICE)(Brief
article)
Although health plans are developing tools to help consumers
compare price and quality information across hospitals and physicians,
the tools' pervasiveness and usefulness are limited, according to . . .
'Free' Rx samples expensive.(POLICY &
PRACTICE)(Brief article)
Free drug samples provided to physicians by pharmaceutical
companies actually could cost uninsured patients more in the long run,
because those patients are prescribed brand-name drugs rather . . .
Grants to doctors in hurricanes.(POLICY & PRACTICE)(Brief
article)
The AMA Foundation's Health Care Recovery Fund will provide
grants of up to $2,500 to physicians in places declared disaster areas
by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the foundation . . .
Tobacco control support drops.(POLICY & PRACTICE)(Brief
article)
Budgets for tobacco control programs in most states are either
staying level or declining, despite increases in payments from the 1997
Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, designed to compensate . . .
Media influences tobacco use.(POLICY & PRACTICE)(Brief
article)
Media communications--including movies, advertising, and news--play
a key role in shaping tobacco use, according to a lengthy report from
the National Cancer Institute. The report noted that . . .
Trinkets out, 'educational' gifts ok under new
code.(Practice Trends)
The free pens and mugs adorned with the names of commonly
prescribed drugs are soon to be a thing of the past, thanks to a new set
of voluntary guidelines from the Pharmaceutical Research . . .
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