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Dec. 22/29: "No" to endorsements AMA House of Delegates stands firm against product endorsements, names Lynn E. Jensen, PhD, interim EVP
Dec. 15: NYU-Mt. Sinai merger NYU medical school faculty makes recommendations in response to merger proposal
Dec. 8: Tobacco settlement The AMA and others push to maximize public health gains as tobacco settlement segues into a bipartisan flurry of bills
Dec. 1: Managed care face-off Advocates of patient protections blame GOP congressional leaders for delay
Nov. 24: Physicians as sales reps? Physician involvement in multilevel marketing ventures raises ethical concerns
Nov. 17: More Medicare money? Changes in the final rule on Medicare physician payment rates include shift to a single conversion factor
Nov. 10: New panel will guide AMA business deals New guidelines and a 12-member task force to help Association move past a controversial alliance with Sunbeam Corp.
Oct. 27: A safer, smarter health care system The National Patient Safety Foundation at the AMA is working to identify the preventing the system failures that cause most medical errors
Oct. 6: FDA's anti-obesity-drug ban The abrupt ban of two popular anti-obesity drugs linked to heart and lung problems has prompted a flurry of lawsuits
Sept. 22/29: Medicare physician payment changes Primary care will see increases, but surgical specialties face reductions in reimbursement
April 28: Linking medicine, public health Spurred by managed care, leaders from the two fields are working hard to collaborate.
April 21: Baylor will not be sold After 2 1/2 months of debate, regents and trustees agree not to seek for-profit buyer
April 14: Primary care matchmakers 56% of graduating U.S. med schools seniors will enter primary care residencies in 1997
April 7: Blueprint for battle AMA's '96 wins set stage for reform; focus turns to Medicare practice-expense issue
March 24/31: HMO deselection Medicine backs complaint of Texas doctor who says his "deselection" violates ADA
March 17: TV violence ratings Age guides are a start, but AMA coalition pushes for content-specific ratings
March 10: PSO update Federal panel reviews Medicare provider networks; the Iowa experience
March 3: States' fair share Medicine demands that states pay co-pays for the poorest Medicare patients. Plus a special report: Late-term abortion Medicine weighs in on debate; abortion-rights leader calls for end to "half-truths"
Feb. 24: 1998 health budget Single conversion factor, some added coverage for kids, and a new cap
Feb. 17: Medicare practice expense High anxiety over HCFA's ability to fashion new values for physician payment
Feb. 10: Consumer drug ads Pharmaceutical firms' direct-to-consumer ads booming; FDA reviews restrictions
Feb. 3: State societies' HMOs State medical societies are setting up their own plans -- and some have success
Jan. 27: MSA test program Keen insurer, consumer interest in MSA pilot started Jan. 1
