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Government & Medicine 2003

• Medicare law starts clock on fixing payment formula - Dec. 22/29
• Medicare reform opens up health savings accounts to all - Dec. 22/29
• Scully leaves CMS for a private-sector job - Dec. 22/29
• Specialty hospital growth put on hold - Dec. 15
• Congress OKs drug reimportation from Canada with safety caveat - Dec. 15
• Report questions federal mental health funding priorities - Dec. 15
• Doctors get a 1.5% pay hike as Congress passes Medicare reform - Dec. 8
• Primary care troubled by coding errors - Dec. 8
• Congress gives FDA authority to require drug testing in children - Dec. 8
• Maryland governor aims to boost insurance access - Dec. 8
• Managing multiple conditions: A challenge for Medicare - Dec. 1
• Deal sets path for vote on Medicare physician pay fix - Dec. 1
• California lawsuit challenges Medicaid reimbursement cuts - Dec. 1
• Millions have health coverage gaps -- Commonwealth Fund study - Dec. 1
• GAO finds evidence of quality problems at dialysis centers - Dec. 1
• U.S. Supreme Court to decide if patients can sue health plans - Nov. 24
• Mental health system needs major therapy, Congress told - Nov. 24
• Family physician elected Kentucky's governor - Nov. 24
• Congress moves closer to Medicare pay increase - Nov. 24
• Doctors say charity care isn't full care - Nov. 24
• Medicare formula spells pay cut of 4.5% for physicians in 2004 - Nov. 17
• Lawmakers seek more oversight of dietary supplement market - Nov. 17
• Health system reform debate returns to national spotlight - Nov. 17
• Medicare appeals process too slow, GAO report finds - Nov. 17
• North Carolina sues stores over drug reimportation from Canada - Nov. 17
• Medicare PPO proposal pits plans against doctors in move to boost rural managed care - Nov. 10
• Newspaper wins right to publish peer review - Nov. 10
• Medicaid reform is waiting on Medicare pact - Nov. 10
• Health coverage problems hit big business - Nov. 10
• Quick View: Patients less than pleased with access to physicians - Nov. 10
• Senate votes to allay physician, patient fears over genetic tests - Nov. 3
• Mending the safety net: How doctors in some states are aiding those without care - Nov. 3
• Bill would give FDA the muscle to stop fake drugs - Nov. 3
• Supreme Court lets doctors discuss medical marijuana - Nov. 3
• Doctors in the dark on Medicare drug payment changes - Nov. 3
• Current Medicare reform bill only a start, not a finish - Nov. 3
• Physician sues Massachusetts over prior authorization rule - Oct. 27
• Dreams for National Health Museum are taking shape - Oct. 27
• MedPAC mulls concept of bundling Medicare payments - Oct. 27
• HHS inspectors' action plan reveals hot buttons for fraud - Oct. 20
• Medicare reimbursement codes: Hopes are high for keeping CPT - Oct. 20
• Late-term abortion ban goes forward - Oct. 20
• Quick View: Presidential candidates' health platforms - Oct. 20
• HHS eases interpreter mandate but doctors must pay the bills - Oct. 13
• Push for drug reimportation gains steam - Oct. 13
• Millions lost health insurance coverage in 2002 - Oct. 13
• FDA sues Rx sellers to stop importation of drugs from Canada - Oct. 13
• Medicare coverage decision methods unveiled - Oct. 13
• Texas tort reform vote signals lower liability rates - Oct. 6
• Messenger model: Follow the rules and fly right - Oct. 6
• CMS gives doctors more time to meet latest HIPAA rule - Oct. 6
• Medicare to rein in power wheelchair prescriptions, sales - Oct. 6
• California mandate would offer health coverage to 1.3 million - Oct. 6
• Bush, states considering tort reforms - Oct. 6
• Doctors struggle to visit Medicare patients at home - Oct. 6
• Changes in EMTALA will relax rules for on-call specialists - Sept. 22/29
• NIH funding plans decried as paltry; 575 medical organizations ask for more - Sept. 22/29
• GAO report calls liability crisis localized - Sept. 22/29
• Slow going on Medicare drug bill, update fix - Sept. 22/29
• Lieberman proposes health system reform - Sept. 22/29
• Medicare reform debate: Bill sets electronic prescribing deadline - Sept. 15
• Texans facing referendum on legality of lawsuit cap - Sept. 15
• Pennsylvania hospitals agree to provide sign language interpreters - Sept. 15
• State high-risk pools fail to deliver affordable premiums - Sept. 15
• Caution urged for small practices tempted to take HIPAA loophole - Sept. 8
• Medicare hikes pay for pneumonia shots - Sept. 8
• Medicaid formula flawed; produces funding inequities - Sept. 8
• Quick View: Public: More Medicare drug benefits - Sept. 8
• Florida enacts tort reform; medicine disappointed with $500,000 cap - Sept. 1
• A hard sell on DME: How suppliers try to game Medicare - Sept. 1
• Medicare chemotherapy picture murky - Sept. 1
• Bill suggests new ways to handle malpractice cases - Sept. 1
• States steer away from broad health benefit mandates - Sept. 1
• CMS sticks to 4.2% Medicare pay cut - Aug. 25
• HIPAA scramble may delay Medicaid pay - Aug. 25
• House drops FDA safeguards from drug reimportation bill - Aug. 18
• GAO: Liability hike fueled by awards - Aug. 18
• Success of SCHIP is incomplete - Aug. 18
• Doctors say Medicaid should face lawsuit in girl's death - Aug. 18
• Medicare to pay HMOs more for sicker patients - Aug. 18
• Don't fear HIPAA police if rules deadline is missed - Aug. 11
• Patient safety measure headed for Senate floor - Aug. 11
• Insurance certificate bill aims to expand coverage - Aug. 11
• Orphan Drug Act at 20: Big gains, some strains - Aug. 4
• Medicare rural bonus payments left unclaimed - Aug. 4
• FTC cracks down on price-fixing in physician contracts - Aug. 4
• Drug price disparity compounds burden for the uninsured - Aug. 4
• Measure stalls in Senate: "We'll be back," say tort reformers - July 28
• Iowa doctors seek issue in Medicare pay equity - July 28
• SCHIP headed for dive in funding, access - July 28
• HIPAA privacy rule making waves in research circles - July 28
• Medicare regulatory relief: Doctors see good in House, Senate reform bills - July 21
• Tort reform stalled over damages cap - July 21
• Electronic filing rule could delay payments - July 21
• Congress considers new version of expanded MSAs - July 21
• Physicians fight to preserve pay increase in Medicare bill - July 14
• CMS enrollment regulation elicits physician dread - July 14
• Congress breathes new life into drug importation law - July 14
• Doctors in legal trouble for billing for free drug samples - July 14
• Running on empty: How physicians cope with Medicaid - July 7
• AMA calls for tax credits for Medicaid patients, uninsured - July 7
• Oncologists worry about cuts in Medicare cancer pay - July 7
• Medicare insurers not paying, doctors complain to AMA - July 7
• Congress may sweeten Medicare pay - June 30
• Medicare drug benefit gains momentum in House, Senate - June 30
• Doctor groups can advise on plan contracts, federal court rules in Hawaii case - June 30
• Feds fire on patent law that delays generics - June 30
• Physicians win award cap as Texas passes tort reform - June 23
• Renal disease management demo launched - June 23
• Surgeons push for federal funding for trauma care - June 23
• House offers bill to increase MSA access - June 23
• Federal fund increase may mean fewer Medicaid cuts - June 16
• Legislation targets Medicare mental health inequality - June 16
• Genetic discrimination bill moving ahead in Senate - June 16
• GAO: Boutique hospitals treat healthier patients - June 16
• Medicare payment outlook is dismal - June 2/9
• The waiting game: When will Medicare cover technology? - June 2/9
• Democrats targeting health issues - June 2/9
• Tax break on liability insurance proposed - June 2/9
• EMTALA costs physicians billions in unreimbursed care - June 2/9
• Fewer Americans uninsured all year, new report finds - June 2/9
• Tort reform could cut billions in federal spending, study says - May 26
• Medicare sets deadline to fix doctor outpatient drug pay - May 26
• Doctor-backed bill seeks to help uninsured - May 26
• Medicare's latest demand: You must sign up every 3 years - May 19
• Doctors warned about October's HIPAA deadline - May 19
• Georgia liability bill falls short in doctors' eyes - May 19
• Strong opposition to deregulation of AHPs - May 19
• Better Medicaid benefits sought for sickle cell patients - May 19
• Resident work-hour bill lives on in Senate - May 19
• Medicaid crisis socks doctors - May 12
• Congress eyes boutique hospital backers - May 12
• Medicare GME caps may be hurting geriatrician supply - May 12
• OIG warns doctors to scrutinize business arrangements - May 12
• Dr. President? Democratic hopeful woos Iowa voters - May 5
• HMOs liable for actions of their network doctors - May 5
• Budget outline earmarks funds for Medicare reform - May 5
• HIPAA rule rapped as breaching privacy - May 5
• Federal court upholds Michigan Medicaid drug formulary plan - April 28
• Frist bill further safeguards doctors from vaccine lawsuits - April 28
• Medicare pilot project offers CME for quality improvement - April 28
• High court punches another hole in the federal law shielding HMOs - April 21
• Only 6 months until next HIPAA hurdle - April 21
• Smallpox bills address compensation fears - April 21
• Federal employee health program: a model for Medicare? - April 21
• Deadline is now for federal HIPAA regulations: Confusing debut for privacy rule - April 14
• Paperwork reduction bill is caught in coding crossfire - April 14
• Nickel-a-beer proposal aims to shore up California ED system - April 14
• Makeup of uninsured population unclear - April 14
• Tort reform clears House, moves forward in states - April 7
• Medicare pay: 2004 forecast looks gloomy - April 7
• Quest for coverage: Insuring the uninsured - April 7
• Medicaid reform may be a long time coming - April 7
• Some patient information will remain public - April 7
• House passes patient safety bill; voluntary reporting key - April 7
• Groups come together to speak up for uninsured - March 24/31
• Supreme Court strikes down use of RICO statute against anti-abortion protestors - March 24/31
• Doctors can get a privacy exemption for data used for research purposes - March 24/31
• California emergency departments close after hemorrhaging money - March 24/31
• Quick View: Going without - March 24/31
• Bush to AMA: Tort reform a must - March 17
• Finalized HIPAA security rule makes its long-awaited debut - March 17
• Doctor denied right to sue employer over dismissal - March 17
• Getting contracts ready for patient privacy - March 17
• MedPAC recommends 2.5% pay increase for next year - March 17
• Doctors seek long-term Medicare pay formula fixes - March 17
• Congress revisits regulatory relief bill - March 10
• HMOs may lose malpractice immunity - March 10
• Marketing do's and don'ts under the privacy law - March 10
• Medicare computers ripe for upgrade - March 10
• Physicians win Medicare payment relief - March 3
• Medicare fraud: Back to stricter scrutiny? - March 3
• Parents trump kids' privacy - March 3
• FTC gives OK to study insurance market - March 3
• CMS project to measure physician quality of care - March 3
• Tax credit plan would offer funds for health insurance - March 3
• Medical liability crisis: Tort reform bill goes to Congress - Feb. 24
• Medicare pay raise OK'd, but deal hinges on non-Medicare issues - Feb. 24
• A just-the-facts approach to quality - Feb. 24
• Physicians must make their privacy policies public - Feb. 24
• Association health plan bill touted as aid to uninsured - Feb. 24
• Bush budget focuses on variety of health reforms - Feb. 17
• States may get Medicaid money now, but pay for it later - Feb. 17
• Keeping patient data quiet - Feb. 17
• Court squashes plan for Medicare prescription drug card - Feb. 17
• Quick View: In-office testing made easier - Feb. 17
• Spending bill would halt cut in Medicare pay, widen safety net - Feb. 10
• Bush urges tort reform, drug benefit - Feb. 10
• Liability premium subsidies: Act with care - Feb. 10
• How to share patient information under the new rules - Feb. 10
• Bush turns up the heat on liability reform - Feb. 3
• Medicare panel: Pay physicians more in 2004 - Feb. 3
• Hot on the Hill: congressional health agenda - Feb. 3
• Utah court upholds ban on lawsuits for "wrongful life" - Feb. 3
• Medical debt keeps people away from care - Feb. 3
• Congress weighs bill to stop Medicare 4.4% pay cut - Jan. 27
• Doctors to feel squeeze of Medicaid budget shortfalls - Jan. 27
• "Average guy" leads extraordinary life - Jan. 27
• A physician leads the Senate; can Dr. Frist deliver? - Jan. 20
• Liability insurance crisis hits breaking point in W.Va., Pa. - Jan. 20
• Health plans subject to new federal appeals rules - Jan. 20
• Surgery centers battle proposed Medicare cuts - Jan. 20
• It's official: Unless Congress acts, Medicare physician pay will be cut 4.4% - Jan. 13
• Tort reform passes in Ohio, but there's no immediate relief - Jan. 13
• Tax credits no quick fix for the uninsured - Jan. 13
• AMA delegates rally to knock out cuts in Medicare payments - Jan. 6
• High-risk operation: The rebuilding of Afghanistan's medical system - Jan. 6
• Physicians seek right to balance-bill under Medicare - Jan. 6
• Network links doctors, disabled job-seekers - Jan. 6

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Professional Issues 2003

• Back from the brink: How three physicians re-entered the medical world - Dec. 22/29
• High surgical volume equals better patient outcomes - Dec. 22/29
• Get tough on medical errors, conference told - Dec. 22/29
• Stanford medical major rule says students must pick path early - Dec. 15
• National CME pilot getting good reviews - Dec. 15
• Foreign-born Ohio transplant surgeon denied work visa - Dec. 15
• Hospital settles transplant misconduct case - Dec. 15
• Physician works to improve health care for everyone - Dec. 15
• ACOG: Ask why patient wants surgery - Dec. 15
• Tort crisis spreads, few signs of abating - Dec. 8
• Framing history: A photo collection contains a study of our medical past - Dec. 8
• Cutting medical errors means systems, money - Dec. 8
• Office physicians more open to hospitalists - Dec. 8
• North Carolina physician earns rural doctor award - Dec. 8
• Physicians, dentists collaborate on oral health - Dec. 1
• Ethics committees help with tough choices - Dec. 1
• More women than men seek entry to U.S. medical schools - Dec. 1
• Internet site covers disciplinary data from 49 states - Dec. 1
• Colorado anesthesiologists win right to sue - Dec. 1
• An elevator is no place for care consults - Dec. 1
• Assisted-suicide vote sends mixed message - Dec. 1
• Quick View: DEA vs. doctors - Dec. 1
• Ethics Forum: Working through formulary exclusions - Dec. 1
• CME at hand: Information you need, when you need it - Nov. 24
• Online prescribing lands 2 physicians in Oregon civil court - Nov. 24
• Signing of ban doesn't stop late-term abortion dispute - Nov. 24
• Special challenges face doctors who care for a dying colleague - Nov. 24
• More insured than uninsured patients filling hospital EDs - Nov. 24
• Doctors fear precedent in privileges case - Nov. 17
• Lethal dose waiting, doctor dies after stopping dialysis - Nov. 17
• Higher lawsuit risks tied to some medical schools - Nov. 17
• More family doctors find PAs to be practice assets - Nov. 17
• Diabetes group looks outside U.S. for stem cell research - Nov. 17
• Quick View: Feds say you're well paid - Nov. 17
• Physicians feel double-digit pain as liability rates continue to rise - Nov. 10
• Practicing two by two: Taking togetherness to the extreme - Nov. 10
• Judge gives final OK to doctor-insurer settlement in Aetna case - Nov. 10
• Texas court dismisses battery charge in resuscitation case - Nov. 10
• Resident match review shows subspecialties' lure - Nov. 10
• Vermont seeks doctors' voices on suicide - Nov. 10
• Visa cap likely to hurt rural clinics - Nov. 10
• More attention urged for living donors - Nov. 10
• In the Courts: North Dakota physician maligned in the press gets an apology - Nov. 10
• FPs aim to set good example in fat fight - Nov. 3
• Aetna settlement nearing final stages of completion - Nov. 3
• Federal advisory group predicts physician shortage looming - Nov. 3
• Study highlights drug gift dilemma - Nov. 3
• Award aims to boost physician mentors - Nov. 3
• Former Bush official seeks drastic quality improvement - Nov. 3
• Safety of office-based surgeries questioned - Nov. 3
• Quick View: Tort costs rise - Nov. 3
• Quick View: Where does money go in malpractice cases? - Nov. 3
• Ethics Forum: New practice designs deviate from tradition - Nov. 3
• Doctors stew over personality tests as insurer ties results to rates - Oct. 27
• Fighting frivolous lawsuits: Doctors engage in an uphill battle - Oct. 27
• Hospital apologizes for complying with racial request - Oct. 27
• Pain specialists fear chilling effect after arrest - Oct. 27
• Kentucky doctors may face more scrutiny on prescription habits - Oct. 20
• North Carolina doctor apologizes for identifying jurors in malpractice case - Oct. 20
• Naturopaths are eligible for licensure in California - Oct. 20
• California court lifts immunity for credentialing information - Oct. 13
• Are patients safe now? Reviews mixed on progress - Oct. 13
• Colorado seeks to end doctor oversight of nurse anesthetists - Oct. 13
• Harvard economist argues that Match is not anticompetitive - Oct. 13
• Oregon doctor has means, but not desire to die yet - Oct. 13
• Florida physician finally gets to face her attacker - Oct. 13
• In the Courts: Class-action notices require individual consideration - Oct. 13
• Services beyond treatment: Patients benefit from medical-legal teams - Oct. 6
• Patient safety initiatives turn focus toward primary care - Oct. 6
• Minnesota, Pennsylvania to launch error-reporting systems - Oct. 6
• Old vote reveals residents wanted PRN - Oct. 6
• Vermont doctors ponder physician-assisted suicide - Oct. 6
• More U.S. medical students are studying abroad - Oct. 6
• Ethics Forum: HIV complicates question of who to tell what - Oct. 6
• CIGNA settles class-action suit on pay issues - Sept. 22/29
• The snowbird shuffle: What to do when patients head south for the winter - Sept. 22/29
• Report shows strong IRB ties to drug firms - Sept. 22/29
• Balance becomes key to specialty pick - Sept. 22/29
• 20 years of restoring sight merits a big-top celebration - Sept. 22/29
• Visa complications snare physicians; hospitals scramble - Sept. 15
• Court says warning is OK, testifying is not - Sept. 15
• Patients want to talk specifics about options, costs of care - Sept. 15
• Johns Hopkins penalized for resident hour violations - Sept. 15
• Quick View: Why a patient comes to you -- and comes back - Sept. 15
• Commentary: Can't we all just get along? Let's talk more, litigate less - Sept. 15
• Indiana doctors face big hit for liability fund - Sept. 8
• Is this trip really necessary? Emergency departments face overcrowding - Sept. 8
• Experiences affect African-Americans' choice of doctor - Sept. 8
• Doctors push for more patient safety program funding - Sept. 8
• There she is ... Physician vies for Miss America - Sept. 8
• In the Courts: Physician makes air marshals rethink racial profiling - Sept. 8
• Robodoc makes rounds at Johns Hopkins, allows doctoring at a distance - Sept. 1
• Elder abuse ruling could hurt California tort law - Sept. 1
• Medical school tuition climbs as economy remains sluggish - Sept. 1
• California medical staff gets right to sue hospital - Sept. 1
• AMA launches new education initiative - Sept. 1
• First embryos screened for deafness gene - Sept. 1
• Stem cell research stalled by lack of growth - Sept. 1
• Liability insurance forecast sees double-digit hikes ahead - Aug. 25
• How close should you be to your patients? - Aug. 25
• Small study compares styles: Osteopathic physicians talk more about feelings - Aug. 25
• Aging population creating higher demand for surgery - Aug. 25
• Quick View: Pennsylvania exodus - Aug. 25
• Las Vegas physician appeals award in lawsuit over waiting time - Aug. 18
• Surgeon questions allocation of livers at Chicago hospitals - Aug. 18
• Group aims to weed out deficient medical expert witnesses - Aug. 18
• Hospice patients refuse fluids to speed death - Aug. 18
• Veterans Affairs debates giving vets direct access to chiropractic care - Aug. 18
• Mountain-loving doctor climbs to great heights - Aug. 18
• Doctor jailed for prescribing habits faces drug-dealing suit - Aug. 18
• The physician look: Do clothes really make the doctor? - Aug. 11
• Bill would allow studies on organ donation incentives - Aug. 11
• California bill promotes licensing naturopaths - Aug. 11
• Patients save doctor once, but liability costs win in end - Aug. 11
• In the Courts: Union-organizing doctor sues over firing - Aug. 11
• Florida tells doctors: Print clearly or else - Aug. 4
• Homegrown doctors key to staffing - Aug. 4
• California court throws out "speculative" expert testimony - Aug. 4
• OxyContin suit can proceed as class action - Aug. 4
• Wisconsin "conscience clause" bill gets rapped as bad policy - Aug. 4
• Interfaith House offers after-hospital care, refuge for homeless - Aug. 4
• IOM calls for education innovation fund - Aug. 4
• Quick View: Reduce your liability risk - Aug. 4
• Ethics Forum: Awareness and understanding for "difficult" patients - Aug. 4
• Doctors hesitate to suggest treatment options that insurers won't cover - July 28
• The power of an apology: Patients appreciate open communication - July 28
• Doctor fights to know who advanced suit - July 28
• California legislation addresses doctors' cultural competency - July 28
• State damage caps linked to boost in physician supply - July 28
• Illinois set to take doctors out of executions - July 28
• Mounting tension over autonomy: Courts referee doctor-hospital battles - July 21
• Fewer clinical faculty volunteer to teach - July 21
• Texas medical board funding will help root out bad doctors - July 21
• Doctor pursues medical and literary loves - July 21
• A doctor chooses when to die - July 14
• Peer pressure: When your colleague is your patient - July 14
• Affirmative action ruling affects medical schools, too - July 14
• CME available for writing test questions - July 14
• Connecticut releases error report amid flurry of doubts - July 14
• In the Courts: Avoid legal pitfalls when hiring physician extenders - July 14
• AMA house backs off "organization of organizations" idea - July 7
• AMA: Be open about drug reps in exams - July 7
• Study outlines deficiencies in American health care - July 7
• States may offer medical liability solutions - July 7
• AMA against NBME's clinical skills test - July 7
• Courses offered on disaster preparedness - July 7
• Resident hour limits may hit attendings - July 7
• AMA aims lie detector at tobacco testimony - July 7
• Scrutiny for doctors as expert witnesses? - July 7
• Ethics Forum: Offering an honest (but careful) opinion - July 7
• Tort crisis spawns carriers selling questionable coverage - June 30
• Laid off: Doctors no longer immune to pink slips - June 30
• California plan to use Mexican physicians stalls - June 30
• States take action on cloning, embryonic research - June 30
• VA audit: Part-time doctors often absent - June 23
• Dueling diagnoses on disability - June 23
• Quick View: Study confirms rates are above average - June 23
• Aetna settlement seeks to repair rift with physicians - June 16
• In workday race, doctors scramble, but clock often wins - June 16
• Can-DO strategy: Osteopathic medicine survives, and thrives - June 16
• Researchers ponder best use of 400,000 stored embryos - June 16
• Physicians told not to fear discipline for pain treatment - June 16
• Organ donation proponents try controversial new tack - June 16
• Car crash takes life of Mississippi physician - June 16
• Putting a price on living organ donations - June 16
• In the Courts: South Carolina abortion clinic ruling opens up HIPAA concerns - June 16
• Genetic testing, gifts among CEJA topics - June 2/9
• Doctors divided over use of affirmative action by medical schools - June 2/9
• Fetus determined to be part of mother's body - June 2/9
• North Carolina judge reverses doctor discipline license case - June 2/9
• Tort crisis limits hospital services - May 26
• Focused on the presidency: Dr. Donald J. Palmisano - May 26
• Battle over suicide help continues in federal court over Ashcroft challenge - May 26
• New family medicine journal to debut - May 26
• Illinois, Pennsylvania join in calls for federal tort reform - May 26
• OIG issues guidance on drugmaker gifts - May 19
• Doctor's unique donation prompts ethical concerns - May 19
• Certifying boards moving to online testing - May 19
• Assisted-suicide bills falter in 4 states - May 19
• Renegotiating Health Care: Create a "tipping point" when planning a retreat - May 19
• Suspicious climate forces registration of foreign doctors - May 12
• A tale of two states: Different approaches to tort reform - May 12
• All doctors must be ready to provide palliative care - May 12
• AHRQ supporters fight funding cuts again - May 12
• Health plan group offers one-time credentialing - May 12
• Doctors voice objections to DEA fee increase - May 12
• In the Courts: Jury says doctor didn't do enough to help obese smoker - May 12
• Doctors resigned to public Web profiles - May 5
• Tort reform rallies draw thousands - May 5
• Which physician has the final word? - May 5
• Quality care not tied to financial return - May 5
• IOM considers licensing, medical education reforms - May 5
• Recertification process gets physician input - May 5
• SARS disrupts medical education in Canada - May 5
• Ethics Forum: Middle-of-the-night elective surgeries: First do no harm - May 5
• The value of volume: Insurers decide more is better - April 28
• Supreme Court sends suits against 2 health plans to arbitration - April 28
• School offers nursing program for IMGs - April 28
• Texas mulls policy for organ donation by presumed consent - April 28
• Medical boards feel pressure, get tougher - April 21
• Doctor wins patient records privacy case - April 21
• CIGNA settlement heads to mediation - April 21
• Who has 7-plus hours a day to put toward preventive care? - April 21
• Dr. Caplan shares his take on medical ethics - April 21
• Cornell medical school in Qatar operational despite war - April 21
• Quick View: Quantifying the effects of liability woes - April 21
• Firing patients: When it's time to say farewell - April 14
• Plaintiffs win birth lawsuits most often - April 14
• Prescribing rights dominate scope-of-practice bills - April 14
• Virginia law on doctor discipline casts wider net - April 14
• In the Courts: Studies define standard of care, even when they conflict - April 14
• Prescription monitoring on tap in Florida - April 7
• School debt helps drive medical students into specialty matches - April 7
• Ban on intact dilatation and extraction passes in the Senate - April 7
• Wisconsin governor proposes raiding patient compensation fund - April 7
• Ethics Forum: Patient, doctor should discuss delivery options - April 7
• Mass appeal of mini-med school - March 24/31
• HHS joins call for national tort reform - March 24/31
• Assisted-suicide numbers continue to rise in Oregon - March 24/31
• From polio to PDAs, this resident has seen it all - March 24/31
• Medicine saves funding for research arm - March 24/31
• Doctors await judge's call on CIGNA settlement - March 17
• Doctors' disaster training tested by Rhode Island nightclub fire - March 17
• Match antitrust suit awaits action as Match Day arrives - March 17
• AMA Pride in Profession Awards honor heroes of medicine - March 17
• Quick View: 18 states now in deep liability crisis - March 17
• DEA to double prescribing fee - March 10
• Strong presence: Greater diversity in medicine - March 10
• ACGME gives final nod to 80-hour workweek - March 10
• ACOG won't meet in Philadelphia, cites state's liability crisis - March 10
• Physician-assisted suicide dead in Hawaii? - March 10
• Pediatric society opposes independent practice of NPs - March 10
• In the Courts: More competition pits doctor against doctor - March 10
• States eye tougher stance on doctor discipline, competency testing - March 3
• Doctors rally against rising liability insurance rates - March 3
• California fines out-of-state doctors for prescribing - March 3
• Cancer patient loses her fight - March 3
• Industry ties taint biomedical research - March 3
• Stiffer CME rules could close speakers' bureaus - March 3
• Quick View: Flying to the rescue - March 3
• Ethics Forum: Get your patient involved in treatment decision-making - March 3
• Making the case for big doctoring: Speaking out for primary care - Feb. 24
• ENT group launches child health initiative - Feb. 24
• DIR latest to exit medical liability market? - Feb. 24
• Solve health care woes, win $10,000 contest - Feb. 24
• Funding crunch will force renewed emphasis on quality - Feb. 24
• New Jersey physicians stop work in biggest liability protest yet - Feb. 17
• Medical schools reeling as state funds dip - Feb. 17
• Locum tenens gains favor with new doctors - Feb. 17
• Space shuttle tragedy claims 2 physicians - Feb. 17
• IOM quality study targets 20 priority areas - Feb. 17
• Patients in liability hot spots asked to arbitrate, not litigate - Feb. 10
• Gray days ahead: Caring for an aging America - Feb. 10
• OIG guidance on industry gifts strict on compliance - Feb. 10
• Sister doctors host women's TV show on healthy sexuality - Feb. 10
• In the Courts: Punitive damages diverted to court-created cancer fund - Feb. 10
• A spoonful of humor helps the medicine go down - Feb. 3
• Study asks why surgical tools were left in 1,500 patients - Feb. 3
• Malpractice awards hit the jury jackpot - Feb. 3
• Medical society survey forecasts doctor shortage - Feb. 3
• Ethics Forum: Making decisions when doctors disagree - Feb. 3
• Abortion, legal since 1973, still shapes, divides doctors - Jan. 27
• Mistaken translations can cause trouble - Jan. 27
• Doctor wins $30 million from hospital in slander lawsuit - Jan. 27
• Mexican doctors to staff California clinics - Jan. 20
• West Virginia doctor kept practicing, even while a patient - Jan. 20
• Groups collaborate on hospital performance initiative - Jan. 20
• Quick View: Whom do you trust? - Jan. 20
• Minority mistrust still haunts medical care - Jan. 13
• Town and gown: Turning rivalries into relationships - Jan. 13
• Physicians, public at odds over errors - Jan. 13
• In the Courts: HMO rulings, medical pot topped doctors' dockets - Jan. 13
• Delegates oppose testing of clinical skills for licensure - Jan. 6
• J-1 visa waiver program under scrutiny - Jan. 6
• Florida judge puts brakes on CIGNA settlement in class action - Jan. 6
• AMA takes no sides in CIGNA lawsuit settlement plan - Jan. 6

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Business 2003

• Chuck E. Ped: Practice at the fun park - Dec. 22/29
• Charting your course: A primer on scoring practice success - Dec. 22/29
• AAFP offers members a technology price break - Dec. 22/29
• Practice Management: Strategize to decrease liability premiums - Dec. 22/29
• Seed money: Getting the funds to grow a new medical practice - Dec. 15
• Family doctor finds house calls a good fit for Florida island - Dec. 15
• Managed care industry's profit outlook is strong - Dec. 15
• Judge lowers loss from HealthSouth fraud - Dec. 15
• Practice Pointers: Stock ownership plan can yield tax benefits to practice - Dec. 15
• Quick View: Wellness programs ignored by employees - Dec. 15
• Data mining: Using information to your advantage - Dec. 8
• Helping patients become more informed consumers of health care - Dec. 8
• Personal Finance: Getting the biggest bang from your charity buck - Dec. 8
• Quick View: How much physicians get paid for being on call - Dec. 8
• Practice Management: Leaders key to success during organizational change - Dec. 8
• A middleman steps into the physician-patient relationship - Dec. 1
• Procedural shift: Cardiac care refocuses on less-invasive processes - Dec. 1
• Agreement on catheterizations leaves out some cardiologists - Dec. 1
• Tenet chief admits company made mistakes - Dec. 1
• SEC warns of schemes targeting physicians - Dec. 1
• New Kansas City IPA would market directly to employers - Dec. 1
• Contract Language: Lay the groundwork for retainer practice - Dec. 1
• Quick View: Profits up at most health plans - Dec. 1
• Ousted CEO faces 85 counts, remains defiant - Nov. 24
• Catch them if you can: Don't let staff steal from your practice - Nov. 24
• Prosecutors want info from Tenet - Nov. 24
• Incentives lower costs of e-prescribing - Nov. 24
• Practice Management: As times change, so do notions of bonuses - Nov. 24
• Anthem-WellPoint deal may kick off merger mania - Nov. 17
• Retirement planning basics: How to plan ahead for down the road - Nov. 17
• Physicians report glitches with HIPAA-compliant claims - Nov. 17
• Physician input keeps consulting firm in business - Nov. 17
• Doctor turns passion for bike touring into business - Nov. 17
• Hospitals continue to struggle financially - Nov. 17
• Practice Pointers: 401(k) should offer variety of fund choices - Nov. 17
• Quick View: 30 billion cans of spam - Nov. 17
• Filing frenzy: What to do to become HIPAA-compliant - Nov. 10
• Doctors also ship work overseas (but they don't always know it) - Nov. 10
• Texas doctors say facility can meet emerging needs - Nov. 10
• Band of brothers branches out in business - Nov. 10
• Tennessee Blues offers $67 million payback - Nov. 10
• Personal Finance: Real estate investments offer diversification - Nov. 10
• Quick View: Info tech doesn't come cheap - Nov. 10
• Quick View: Features are fine, but how much will it cost? - Nov. 10
• Quieting the squeaky wheel: Dealing with demanding patients - Nov. 3
• Physicians apparent victims of ID theft in $40 million fraud scheme - Nov. 3
• Reduced profit margins common for groups in 2002 - Nov. 3
• Indiana doctors turn up the heat on Anthem - Nov. 3
• Hospital CEO salaries show modest increase - Nov. 3
• Georgia PPO to use claims database to assess quality - Nov. 3
• Ousted HealthSouth chief invokes the Fifth - Nov. 3
• Contract Language: Review key provisions before leasing shared space - Nov. 3
• Claims scene investigation: They're watching you - Oct. 27
• Evidence still out on disease management as cost saver - Oct. 27
• Blues to study its own "best practices" - Oct. 27
• Vermont clinic gets 3rd lease on life - Oct. 27
• Practice Management: Deck the office for a seasonal treat, but keep it tasteful - Oct. 27
• Quick View: Computer crime in health care field - Oct. 27
• Doctor redefines visits with phone, e-mail - Oct. 20
• HCA revival: Hospital company makes a profitable turnaround - Oct. 20
• Aetna plans tiers based on cost, quality - Oct. 20
• Plans offer prizes to push patients to healthy living - Oct. 20
• Practice Pointers: How to motivate employees to work more productively - Oct. 20
• Identity crisis: Protect yourself from ID theft - Oct. 13
• Critics say specialty hospital ban undermines care - Oct. 13
• Doctor's new venture goes by land and by sea - Oct. 13
• Electronic prescription network rolls out - Oct. 13
• Personal Finance: Educate yourself on college savings plans - Oct. 13
• Growing pains: Weighing the costs of success - Oct. 6
• California doctors closer to reaping bonuses - Oct. 6
• Doctors outpace consumers in embracing e-technologies - Oct. 6
• Doctors aren't immune from bankruptcy upswing - Oct. 6
• North Carolina Blues may face huge fine - Oct. 6
• Florida IPA makes bonuses its business for doctors, insurers - Oct. 6
• Contract Language: Evaluate risks before you agree to share - Oct. 6
• Quick View: Health care as a value proposition - Oct. 6
• Getting patients to pay: Gentle ways to get the check - Sept. 22/29
• Pennsylvania surgery centers more profitable than hospitals - Sept. 22/29
• Big sites enter into diabetes monitoring market - Sept. 22/29
• Practice Management: Employee orientation key to transition - Sept. 22/29
• Preventive medicine key, even for computer viruses - Sept. 15
• Splitting heirs: Do's and don'ts of estate planning - Sept. 15
• Insurers say prompt pay not a big issue; doctors disagree - Sept. 15
• Kentucky radiologists object to hospital project - Sept. 15
• Physician compensation surveys offer little encouraging news - Sept. 15
• Troubled Tenet agrees to sell 6 hospitals - Sept. 15
• AMA report spotlights rising insurance premiums - Sept. 15
• Practice Pointers: Make sure you have right retirement plan - Sept. 15
• Lurking, listening, learning: Using online support groups - Sept. 8
• Feds looking into Maryland Blues conversion bid - Sept. 8
• PPO offering online answers to members' medical queries - Sept. 8
• More doctors go online for drug information - Sept. 8
• What is an EMR? Health leaders come up with a definition - Sept. 8
• From idea to income: When innovation can mean cash - Sept. 1
• Advisories alarm Washington retainer practices - Sept. 1
• HealthSouth starts paying off debts - Sept. 1
• Court says Anthem can't take over Kansas Blues - Sept. 1
• Contract Language: PPO contracts can hide traps; scrutinize before you sign - Sept. 1
• Formalizing feedback: How to conduct staff performance reviews - Aug. 25
• Tenet pays $54 million in fraud settlement - Aug. 25
• Insurers post robust profits for the second quarter - Aug. 25
• Practice Management: Meet flex-hour requests with consistency - Aug. 25
• Doctors ask hospitals to help pay soaring insurance costs - Aug. 18
• Can you be conned? Doctors tell their money-losing tales of woe - Aug. 18
• Doctor gets tax breaks for settling in rural community - Aug. 18
• Some doctors want payment for e-detailing - Aug. 18
• Corporations try to trim fat by slimming employees - Aug. 18
• Quick View: The HIPAA third degree - Aug. 18
• Practice Pointers: Plan to take advantage of tax write-offs - Aug. 18
• Every practice's hiring dilemma: Train from within or recruit? - Aug. 11
• The doctor is outsourcing: To hire or not to hire - Aug. 11
• Ohio physicians rate insurers in HMO report card twist - Aug. 11
• Hospitals count up cost of reduced resident hours - Aug. 11
• Wired hospitals keep innovating - Aug. 11
• Quick View: Patients find out about health online - Aug. 11
• PPO "administration fee": Physicians pay to get paid - Aug. 4
• Appeal of retainer practices: Boutique care goes mainstream - Aug. 4
• CIGNA computer glitches zap physician pay - Aug. 4
• Tenet subsidiaries indicted on doctor kickback charges - Aug. 4
• New Humana drug benefit consumer-driven - Aug. 4
• Heart clinic offers patient records to go - Aug. 4
• Green light for digital hospital - Aug. 4
• Ghost patients no way to stay on schedule - Aug. 4
• HHS takes steps to make EMRs less complicated to use - Aug. 4
• Contract Language: MRI investment guidelines stress value of arm's length - Aug. 4
• Hitting the business books: Finding a program that's right for you - July 28
• HealthSouth working to avoid bankruptcy - July 28
• Blues conversions hitting speed bumps - July 28
• Practice Management: Deductibles: Savings may only be short-term - July 28
• Practice Pointers: 7 steps to prevent overdue payments - July 28
• Extra pay for quality care not easy money - July 21
• When patients can't pay: Some innovative solutions - July 21
• Medical societies roll out financial planning services - July 21
• Texas IPA offers discount cards - July 21
• Quick View: Why they don't buy - July 21
• Practicing privacy: Fine-tune office routines without going overboard - July 14
• Kaiser, diabetes group team up for online project - July 14
• Physician's calculator - July 14
• Quick View: Physicians evaluate work life, career choice - July 14
• Contract Language: Be aware of new CMS Medicare physician rules - July 14
• Not married to the M.O.B.: Life beyond the medical office building - July 7
• AMA resolution would hold managed care staff liable - July 7
• Veterans to gain online access to records - July 7
• Doctors promote fitness with health clubs - July 7
• Quick View: Consumer reaction to paying the price - July 7
• Code breakers: The importance of unlocking Medicare code - June 30
• Relocation incentives get California hospital CEO indicted - June 30
• Health care costs continue to rise, but at a lower rate - June 30
• Practice Management: North Carolina physicians promote open scheduling - June 30
• Practices get bigger tax break for equipment purchases - June 23
• Armor-plated assets: How to protect your property - June 23
• Screening business reaches out to doctors - June 23
• WellPoint to buy Wisconsin Blues plan - June 23
• New Hampshire bill aims to attract more health plans - June 23
• Maryland insurer gets Blues license back - June 23
• Geek on demand: Finding the best troubleshooter for your computer problems - June 16
• MGMA: Cardiology costs outpacing revenue - June 16
• Tenet chief resigns; company on the ropes for back taxes - June 16
• Online services offer to help doctors schedule drug reps - June 16
• Ohio hospital one step ahead of specialists - June 16
• Buffalo HMO network drops physicians it battled with - June 16
• Ripe for refinancing: It's not just for mortgages anymore - June 2/9
• Kaiser gives its members more choices - June 2/9
• Bankruptcy might not be all bad news - June 2/9
• Quick View: HMOs' black ink gets blacker - June 2/9
• Contract Language: Making plans for your future as a partner - June 2/9
• CEO compensation: Accomplishments translate into healthy paychecks - May 26
• Doctor's firm closes the distance between rural practice and CME - May 26
• Practice Management: Primary care site offers practice management tips - May 26
• Cards promise discounts, deliver headaches - May 19
• The investor within: Balancing your psychological make-up with your financial make-up - May 19
• New stent pricey, yet a cost-saver - May 19
• Suit claims unnecessary surgeries at Tenet - May 19
• California bill urges more control over health insurance plans - May 19
• Converting to for-profit may not increase profits - May 19
• Quick View: Insurers wonder what online self-services to offer - May 19
• Practice Pointers: You may be a fiduciary and not know it - May 19
• 5 obstacles to e-prescribing: 5 approaches to overcoming them - May 12
• Groups protect themselves from HealthSouth woes - May 12
• Wisconsin physicians, hospitals team up on data initiative - May 12
• Universal health care in California carries a hefty price tag - May 12
• Physicians finding plenty of NPs, PAs -- but at a price - May 5
• Battle of the beds: When does enough hospitals become too many? - May 5
• Bill may jeopardize CareFirst's Blues license - May 5
• HealthSouth's flagship hospital confronting an uncertain future - May 5
• Offshore employee leasing runs afoul of IRS - May 5
• To track benefit statements, Texas group calls the bank - May 5
• Texas physician launches firm securing the airwaves - May 5
• Contract Language: Review disability clauses now, not later - May 5
• Employers to pay physicians for quality care - April 28
• Welcome to the blogosphere: A brave new world of Web dialogue - April 28
• California demands coverage for drugs with over-the-counter competitors - April 28
• Tenet shaking up board, management - April 28
• Practice Management: Urgent need for extra revenue? Some try urgent care - April 28
• Learning for earning: When it's time to consider an extra career - April 21
• SEC investigates HealthSouth, former CEO Scrushy - April 21
• Kentucky IPA joins forces with consulting firm - April 21
• Practice Pointers: Analyze operations to get your office humming again - April 21
• Quick View: Hospital study shows error reduction - April 21
• Why Wi-Fi? Getting a better connection - April 14
• New survey finds fewer patients searching online - April 14
• Contract Language: Don't snooze through sleep clinic proposal - April 14
• True value: Buying or selling a practice - April 7
• Searchers may Google your patient records - April 7
• Tenet dropping 14 hospitals, planning cost-cutting moves - April 7
• Georgia doctors wait for CPT code bundling info - April 7
• Physician input helps hospital-owned group make money - April 7
• Magellan files bankruptcy, focuses on restructuring - April 7
• Physicians adding fees for services that once were free - March 24/31
• Maryland bucks national trend, blocks Blues for-profit conversion - March 24/31
• Reaping the rewards of loyalty: Physicians discover the importance of the personal touch - March 24/31
• Washington state health plan starts tiered network for physicians - March 24/31
• Computer hackers access 7,000 patient files - March 24/31
• Practice Management: Surveys help you discover what HMO patients think of your care - March 24/31
• Comfortable investment: Making your office more patient-friendly - March 17
• Wisconsin businesses float rate-setting plan to control health care costs - March 17
• Doctor involvement key to success of computerized order entry - March 17
• Your computer crashed: Now what? - March 10
• Kaiser Permanente launches patient-accessible EMR - March 10
• Aetna breaks cycle of losses to post profits - March 10
• Health care companies still attracting venture capital - March 10
• Quick View: Hospital systems officials reveal technology priorities - March 10
• Blown apart: A bitter battle between an insurer and doctors - March 3
• Cost awareness has limited effect on prescribing - March 3
• Riding herd: A physician runs a Montana cattle ranch - March 3
• Practice Management: Don't change jobs just for sake of change - March 3
• Sounding the charge: Coalition opposes insurer's conversion - Feb. 24
• Medem, Cerner form alliance for consultations - Feb. 24
• HCA price for nonprofit group OK'd - Feb. 24
• Managed care plans should see higher profits in 2003 - Feb. 24
• Practice Pointers: Small practices can opt for simple, safe retirement plans - Feb. 24
• Doctors pull plug on paperless system - Feb. 17
• Last chance for coverage: Liability crisis sends doctors scrambling for insurance - Feb. 17
• AAFP seeking support for low-cost EMR - Feb. 17
• Commentary: Paperless medical record not all it's cracked up to be - Feb. 17
• Hospitals battle doctor-owned centers - Feb. 10
• Bundle of trouble: How to challenge insurers' payment methods - Feb. 10
• Money woes solved with cash-only practice - Feb. 10
• Confusion rules with Internet prescribing - Feb. 10
• Study points to physicians as catalysts for savings - Feb. 10
• Hospital finances are in stable condition - Feb. 10
• Wisconsin businesses uniting for health coalition - Feb. 10
• You schmooze, you lose: How to win referrals and influence doctors - Feb. 3
• Autonomy gains offset by less time for patients - Feb. 3
• New Jersey Blues launches online consultation at physician urging - Feb. 3
• Tenet posts larger profits, but overbilling charges loom - Feb. 3
• Contract Language: Making transition from tenant to owner - Feb. 3
• Quick View: Employers shoulder higher insurance costs - Feb. 3
• Will your next telephone be a computer? The next step in communication - Jan. 27
• Negotiating a lease? "Fair market value" is the mantra - Jan. 27
• Clearinghouse valued at zero, but sold for $23.4 million - Jan. 27
• CIGNA cuts jobs to cut costs; call centers not targeted - Jan. 27
• Practice Management: Group appointments have their benefits - Jan. 27
• Managed care easing gatekeeper hassles - Jan. 20
• How to choose a financial planner: Reaching your financial goals - Jan. 20
• Physicians back HCA purchase of nonprofit hospital chain - Jan. 20
• Expert's Focus: Beyond RBRVS: Gather data to ensure equitable fees - Jan. 20
• Quick View: Most plans on financial upswing - Jan. 20
• Paying to computerize your records: How low can you go? - Jan. 13
• Insurers plan more layoffs, claim center closures - Jan. 13
• Specialists to share the wealth in Massachusetts Blues bonus plan - Jan. 13
• More California physicians rejecting new HMO patients - Jan. 13
• Concrete investment: Having a space of your own - Jan. 6
• Rhode Island practice offers health plan to uninsured - Jan. 6
• Contract Language: Medicare opt-out requires meticulous paperwork - Jan. 6
• Quick View: Employer coverage trends - Jan. 6

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Opinion 2003

• Obesity: Not just a phase kids outgrow - Dec. 22/29
• Advance directives: Talk now about plans for later care - Dec. 15
• AMA Leader Commentary: Patient safety: Separating misinformation from truth - Dec. 15
• Supreme Court has chance to hold HMOs accountable. - Dec. 8
• Breaking the merger wave: Time for the government to keep insurer consolidations in check - Dec. 1
• AMA Leader Commentary: Evidence doesn't support push for clinical skills exam - Dec. 1
• Caring for the caregiver: AMA resource shows how doctors can take active role - Nov. 24
• Diversifying medicine: The time is now - Nov. 17
• AMA Leader Commentary: A tale from the front: The medical liability crisis in Pennsylvania - Nov. 17
• Interpreter rule still costly: Doctors with non-English-speaking patients bear burden - Nov. 10
• Electronic prescribing and Medicare: Let the doctor decide - Nov. 3
• AMA Leader Commentary: AMA's stance on tort reform: a cap, not capitulation - Nov. 3
• CDC takes "Get Smart" message to consumers: Antibiotics won't cure flu - Oct. 27
• Professionalism for a new era: The challenge for medical education - Oct. 20
• AMA Leader Commentary: A rallying cry from Texas: Remember Proposition 12! - Oct. 20
• Century of progress: AMA helps turn tarnished medical education system into gold standard - Oct. 13
• Look to tax credits to fight skyrocketing health insurance premiums - Oct. 6
• AMA Leader Commentary: Reimbursement limbo pushes doctors lower and lower - Oct. 6
• HIV prevention: Entering mainstream medicine - Sept. 22/29
• Medical staffs need autonomy - Sept. 15
• AMA Leader Commentary: A single-payer health care system? A flawed treatment - Sept. 15
• Keeping vaccination rates up: Doctors must keep up the pressure - Sept. 8
• Web prescribing: How to set the standards - Sept. 1
• AMA Leader Commentary: Answering the question "Why did the AMA do that?" - Sept. 1
• Filtering tobacco's harmful pitch - Aug. 25
• AMA offers guidelines to answer hard questions on patient gifts - Aug. 18
• AMA Leader Commentary: Difficult times demand activism -- and membership - Aug. 18
• Senate fails on tort reform - Aug. 11
• Contract disclosure: How PPOs can earn praise, not profanity - Aug. 4
• AMA Leader Commentary: Issues too important to allow AMA a summer rest - Aug. 4
• Physician suicide and depression: Helping doctors heal themselves - July 28
• Medical errors and ethics: A call for candor without fear - July 21
• Assessing older driver safety - July 14
• Aetna's olive branch is an encouraging sign - July 7
• Commentary: Primary care physicians being stressed to the max - July 7
• Helping the world stop smoking - June 30
• Residency work hours: New rules, fresh vigilance - June 23
• Health literacy: Your patients can't follow instructions they don't understand - June 16
• AMA Leader Commentary: Trust is crucial to physicians -- and to the Association - June 16
• Megasize health plan power: A market gone wrong - June 2/9
• AMA Leader Commentary: AMA as a whole is more than just the sum of its parts - June 2/9
• A message from the heart: Cardiac care vital for women, too - May 26
• Public health lesson of SARS: First step in treating is reporting - May 19
• AMA Leader Commentary: Today's fight for tort reform will ensure care in future - May 19
• Smallpox vaccine: Easing fears on inoculations - May 12
• High court's clear thinking on ERISA: Reining in HMOs - May 5
• AMA Leader Commentary: All efforts welcome in the battle against obesity - May 5
• Imported prescriptions: A prudent FDA crackdown - April 28
• Act before tort crisis spreads - April 21
• Deadly milestone: 5 years of assisted suicide - April 21
• AMA Leader Commentary: Hail to the unsung heroes of American medicine - April 21
• Time to focus on care disparities - April 14
• Electronic medical records: Ask physicians what they want - April 7
• From the AMA board chair: Now is the time to build on our health policy victories - April 7
• Bioterrorism threats: Are we ready? Or not? - March 24/31
• Medicine, and Medicare, must prepare for more elderly patients - March 17
• From the AMA president: Tragedy and torts: Bankrupting medicine not the answer - March 17
• Commonsense approach to HIPAA compliance - March 10
• Health plan market dominance: FTC should rein in overbearing plans - March 3
• From the AMA board chair: Minority physicians encourage the next generation - March 3
• Break needed from alcohol ads - Feb. 24
• Commentary: E-mail correspondence: Is it the write stuff for you? - Feb. 24
• Your message to patients: Supersize, shorter life - Feb. 17
• From the AMA president: Act now as medical liability reform gains momentum - Feb. 17
• Liability crisis at breaking point: Doctors wait for ray of hope - Feb. 10
• Online care: Guidelines tame the wild Web - Feb. 3
• From the AMA board chair: "Cover the Uninsured Week" a national grassroots effort - Feb. 3
• Doctors can help stop abuse - Jan. 27
• Commentary: Embrace technology to stop prescription mistakes - Jan. 27
• Doctors deserve privacy too: Credentialing should not require revealing your entire health history - Jan. 20
• From the AMA president: New year, new opportunities to make American medicine better than ever - Jan. 20
• Delegates issue call to action: Time to fix the Medicare mistake - Jan. 13
• Rewarding quality care: Physicians should set the standards - Jan. 6
• From the AMA board chair: Best form of prevention: Health education in the schools - Jan. 6

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Health & Science 2003

• Agencies join forces to stop rogue online pharmacies - Dec. 22/29
• AMA guide arms doctors for battle against obesity - Dec. 22/29
• New guidelines give specifics for pneumonia care - Dec. 22/29
• State budget cuts threaten to disconnect poison hotlines - Dec. 15
• Kicking butt: Primary care physicians can help smokers quit - Dec. 15
• Patients toss and turn with restless legs, but don't tell - Dec. 15
• Better technology can bring better care -- and higher costs - Dec. 15
• "State of the CDC" hits the agency's high notes - Dec. 8
• Agreement may boost disease management - Dec. 8
• Congress told to think globally on disease threat - Dec. 8
• Measles outbreaks spur caution as a forgotten foe returns - Dec. 1
• Physician recounts D.C. sniper attack - Dec. 1
• Hormones at issue -- this time for men - Dec. 1
• Lung cancer deadlier than breast cancer for women - Dec. 1
• Diet implicated in irritable bowel syndrome - Dec. 1
• California wildfires: Doctors wait for the smoke to clear - Nov. 24
• Reminders to parents could lower kids' hospital admissions - Nov. 24
• Attack on asthma: Hospital helps kids fight for breath - Nov. 17
• Doctors key to triggering FDA's warning signals - Nov. 17
• State-owned lab has special niche in vaccine research - Nov. 17
• Is primary care ready for medical abortion? - Nov. 17
• CDC outlines its battle plan for SARS - Nov. 10
• Flu season gets early start; public health pushes vaccine - Nov. 10
• Mammography debate: Who should get screened and when? - Nov. 10
• CDC set to harness the predictive power of a medical family tree - Nov. 10
• Dieting may produce weight gains in youths - Nov. 10
• Quick View: Women and AIDS: A growing share - Nov. 10
• A shot in the dark: Are we ready for STD vaccines? - Nov. 3
• New anti-addiction drug slow to catch on in primary care - Nov. 3
• Balancing research with national security - Nov. 3
• Silicone breast implants poised for a comeback - Nov. 3
• Researchers hunt for weapons against shingles - Nov. 3
• Americans are living longer, but not necessarily healthier - Oct. 27
• FDA intensifies attack on fake drugs - Oct. 27
• Antibiotic use may help slow Alzheimer's - Oct. 27
• Doctors complete surgery despite hospital evacuation - Oct. 27
• The weight of obesity: Lessons from the fattest state - Oct. 20
• Communicating risk key step to good care - Oct. 20
• Most in U.S. see disparities in care of minority patients - Oct. 20
• The weight of obesity: Public health ponders future of children with diabetes - Oct. 13
• CDC: Flu vaccine as important to receive as to give - Oct. 13
• Physicians weather Isabel and respond in its wake - Oct. 13
• Quick View: Who's clean? - Oct. 13
• Cold-and-flu season confusion: Bracing for SARS -- and false alarms - Oct. 6
• The weight of obesity: Linking large people to care - Oct. 6
• Teens to be the target of pertussis boosters - Oct. 6
• It takes a team to curb youth drinking - Oct. 6
• To take or not to take hormones, that is still the question - Oct. 6
• Study suggests link between NSAIDs, aspirin, miscarriage - Oct. 6
• More effort urged on cancer control - Sept. 22/29
• Researchers call for more diabetes testing - Sept. 22/29
• Relapsing fever spreads to a new state - Sept. 22/29
• Treating teens: Young bodies, adult risks - Sept. 15
• CDC drops high-risk priorities for flu shots - Sept. 15
• Colon cancer screening now can go noninvasive route - Sept. 15
• CDC launches program to track violent deaths - Sept. 15
• Physicians meet blackout challenges great and small - Sept. 8
• Measuring blood pressure in real life may give truer picture - Sept. 8
• FDA warning on one drug spurs concern over others - Sept. 8
• Quick View: West Nile virus in the United States - Sept. 8
• Spotting macular degeneration: Be watchful and start early - Sept. 1
• Flexibility needed in bioterror response - Sept. 1
• Herpes rates are high among affluent populations - Sept. 1
• Faster West Nile diagnostic test gets FDA nod - Sept. 1
• Generic drug approval process streamlined - Sept. 1
• Federal crackdown targets bogus copies of popular drugs - Aug. 25
• IOM highlights financing needs: More vaccines, higher cost - Aug. 25
• Drug options may help primary care doctors treat alcoholism - Aug. 25
• Disparities hurt Native Americans' health - Aug. 25
• Against the grain: The growing awareness of celiac sprue - Aug. 18
• Safety of longer intervals between Pap tests debated - Aug. 18
• Commission urges overhaul for mental health system - Aug. 18
• Doctors grade asthma screening in schools - Aug. 18
• Alzheimer's treatment needs intensify role of primary doctors - Aug. 11
• HIV prevention: Doctors asked to take bigger role - Aug. 11
• Physicians struggle with flu vaccination strategies for kids - Aug. 11
• C-section rate climbs as options diminish - Aug. 11
• Drive launched to boost stroke awareness - Aug. 11
• Entering the shadow of DES: Health risks still loom - Aug. 4
• Chicken soup for the sore throat often beats antibiotics - Aug. 4
• Review confirms knowledge gap in women's heart research - Aug. 4
• Doctors struggle with telling older drivers it's time to park - Aug. 4
• Researchers aim for better prostate tests - Aug. 4
• Food companies push healthy-living plans - Aug. 4
• Vaccine-exempt law expands - July 28
• Remind patients: It's time to stay cool - July 28
• Food labels will point out fats that clog arteries - July 28
• Menopause medicine: Custom-fit quandary - July 21
• Researchers tout multipurpose heart pill - July 21
• American doctor volunteers to fight SARS in Toronto - July 21
• Baldness drug shows promise in preventing prostate cancer - July 14
• Public health is better prepared for West Nile virus - July 14
• Prilosec latest blockbuster drug to go over the counter - July 14
• LifeSharers offers one way to increase organ donations - July 14
• Cold-and-flu seasonal spread suggests new burst of SARS - July 7
• Complicated history: What happens when cancer survivors grow up? - July 7
• Vigilance urged for patients' lifestyle choices - July 7
• Depression increasing, even among physicians - July 7
• Physicians push for cheaper, more accessible medications - July 7
• Monkeypox outbreak: Swift action leads to identification of exotic virus - June 30
• Physicians struggle when immunizations get off-track - June 30
• Tobacco control efforts get mixed reviews - June 30
• Doctors use new cues to get patient history - June 23
• Smallpox 1947: "People were terrified" - June 23
• Type 2 diabetes requires multilevel care - June 23
• Lack of sleep not just an adult problem - June 23
• U.S. SARS cases still rare, but worries are more common - June 16
• Flu vaccine supply ample, demand lagging - June 16
• Tamoxifen: 25-year success story looking for a sequel - June 16
• DEET guidelines make for a safe summer - June 16
• Hypertension standards reveal more patients at risk - June 2/9
• Hopeful movement: progress in spinal cord injury treatment - June 2/9
• Mass casualty drill challenges health system - June 2/9
• FDA safeguards blood supply from SARS - June 2/9
• SARS spurs race for a cure -- and for patents - May 26
• Patients need clear messages to navigate medicine's maze - May 26
• CDC asks for more state data on asthma control - May 26
• Scientists eye new developments on the vaccine front - May 26
• Hidden violence, harrowing choices: What doctors can do about domestic abuse - May 19
• CDC calls for routine testing to stem HIV infection rates - May 19
• Resistant bacteria remain public health threat - May 19
• Health disparities plague minority men - May 19
• New drug may slow Alzheimer's course - May 12
• Can HIV exposure regimen work for outpatients? - May 12
• SARS news spurs demand for medical masks - May 12
• Slow start for smallpox vaccine plan - May 5
• Do-it-themselves diagnosis: Patients pick their tests - May 5
• Genome research targets environmentally induced disease - May 5
• Screening interval for colorectal cancer debated - May 5
• FDA to review estrogen-androgen hormone therapy - May 5
• TV-free week gets support of physicians - May 5
• SARS prompts added vigilance, worry over spread of infection - April 28
• Transplant tragedy spurs system checks - April 28
• Raising HDL levels may be as important as lowering LDL - April 28
• Doctor-pilots mourn loss of Chicago airstrip - April 28
• FDA chief pledges changes to direct-to-consumer advertising guidelines - April 28
• Collaborating for care: When joining forces helps patients - April 21
• Gene mutations present clues for cancer-drug design - April 21
• Fast-food sellers under fire for helping supersize people - April 21
• Technology, compact tools put physicians in dust of battle - April 14
• New focus urged for kids' heart health - April 14
• Golfers may soon be singing "yippy-i-o OK" - April 14
• Creativity needed to reach minority elderly - April 14
• Spectrum of hope: Early diagnosis aids autism treatment - April 7
• Infectious disease outbreaks signal need to think globally - April 7
• New NIH center focuses on finding an AIDS vaccine - April 7
• When the times get rough, you can ease your patients' minds - March 24/31
• A little warfarin goes a long way in stopping clots - March 24/31
• Compensation proposed for smallpox vaccine injuries - March 24/31
• Is arthritis medicine working? Ask what the patient thinks - March 24/31
• Preventing migraines cuts pain and costs - March 24/31
• Back on the front lines: Bioterrorism threatens to resurrect an old foe - March 17
• AIDS vaccine trial called disappointing, but not futile - March 17
• Get ready for a new -- and nastier -- West Nile season - March 10
• Cancer center called sham, closed down - March 10
• Progenitor cells indicative of lower cardiac risk? - March 10
• Cutting-the-fat bills target overweight kids - March 10
• Managing mayhem: How doctors handle seasonal chaos - March 3
• Doctors urged to focus on terror readiness - March 3
• Shipboard medicine is no carnival - March 3
• Celiac symptoms varied; disease not so rare - March 3
• Public health's main fear over bioterrorism: surge capacity - Feb. 24
• Doctors try to fix backroom damage - Feb. 24
• Are the good times over at National Institutes of Health? - Feb. 24
• Team approach best for providing palliative care - Feb. 24
• Smallpox efforts are off to a bumpy start - Feb. 24
• One doctor's battles: Craig Lee Slingluff Jr., MD, lived to fight another day - Feb. 17
• Norovirus outbreaks at all-time high nationwide - Feb. 17
• Frustration abounds over tobacco settlement spending - Feb. 17
• Pricey vaccines for kids still public health bargains - Feb. 17
• Flu vaccination most successful in 3 years - Feb. 10
• H. pylori vaccine research shows promise - Feb. 10
• Prescription drug abuse by teens increasing - Feb. 10
• Germ warfare: The battle for clear noses - Feb. 3
• FDA survey puts positive spin on direct-to-consumer ads - Feb. 3
• Mock vaccination exercise mimics smallpox response - Feb. 3
• American MD killed serving troubled corner of the world - Jan. 27
• 30 years after Roe v. Wade, doctors reflect on its impact - Jan. 27
• FDA: Hormones get box warning, label changes - Jan. 27
• Everything may not cause cancer -- but 228 things do - Jan. 27
• Who will be WHO's next leader? Choice critical to global health - Jan. 20
• Diuretics most effective hypertension drug - Jan. 20
• Chicken pox vaccine's staying power questioned - Jan. 20
• Internet filters can also block health sites - Jan. 20
• Compensation plan needed to offset smallpox vaccine risks - Jan. 13
• AMA wants to ban booze ads aimed at teens - Jan. 13
• Challenges lie in details of smallpox plan - Jan. 6
• Behind the scenes: How a drug becomes a drug - Jan. 6
• Task force adds opinion in prostate screening debate - Jan. 6
• Smoking cessation programs have room for improvement - Jan. 6

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