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Government & Medicine
- After 13 years, Congress OKs genetic bias ban - May 19
- EMR deadline does not compute: Falling short of 2014 goals - May 19
- Quick View: Medicare health plan pay headed up - May 19
- NPI deadline: Insurers won't pay claims with old IDs after May 23 - May 12
- Rulings limit patients' ability to sue device firms, drugmakers - May 12
- CMS seeks to add 9 hospital-acquired conditions to no-pay list - May 12
- MedPAC advises raising primary care pay - May 5
- GAO: CMS violated law with SCHIP eligibility directive - May 5
- State-by-state analysis ties lack of insurance to earlier death - May 5
- AMA urges more safeguards in federal patient safety rules - May 5
- Quick View: Practice trends influencing charity care - May 5
- Part D standards aim to encourage e-prescribing - April 28
- House panel OKs bill to delay Medicaid cuts - April 28
- Medicare disease-management pilot faces closure over costs - April 28
- New York awards $105 million in health IT projects - April 28
- Physicians press lawmakers to stop Medicare pay cuts - April 21
- More physicians backing national coverage -- study - April 21
- Court blocks broad subpoena of patient records - April 21
- Stolen laptop compromises privacy of NIH study subjects - April 21
- Latest Medicare projections renew alarm on long-term sustainability - April 14
- Federal court rejects challenge of abortion-refusal law - April 14
- Pennsylvania House bill expands subsidized plans, phases out liability fund - April 14
- ACOG may redo abortion conscience policy - April 14
- Medicare pay bill: Raises to replace cuts through 2009 - April 7
- Employer mandates hit legal snag, states continue to search for options - April 7
- Florida Supreme Court lifts past peer review confidentiality - April 7
- Uniform IT definitions proposed to promote understanding - April 7
- Massachusetts hikes premiums for state-subsidized health plans by 10% - April 7
- Physicians face Medicaid's April 1 deadline for tamper-proof Rx pads - March 24/31
- House passes mental health parity bill - March 24/31
- Colorado Senate OKs increase, changes to state's liability cap - March 24/31
- MedPAC report adds momentum to push for 2009 Medicare pay hike - March 17
- Medicare quality reporting called a promising start - March 17
- Senate hearing questions doctors' ties to medical device makers - March 17
- Physicians can become entangled in DME fraud - March 17
- Rules aim for better patient safety through confidential error reports - March 10
- Health reform update: Transparency hot, state mandates not - March 10
- California reverses course, adopts 10% physician Medicaid pay cut - March 10
- House passes partial forgiveness for medical student loans - March 10
- Bush eyes EMRs, P4P to slow Medicare spending - March 3
- HIT budget plan criticized as insufficient - March 3
- Lawsuit hits medical access post-Katrina - March 3
- Washington state doctors, physical therapists battle over referrals - March 3
- Medicare Advantage sales tactics draw fire as Senate panel investigates - Feb. 25
- Parity, genetic privacy bills face snags - Feb. 25
- Survey: Patients harmed by anemia drug policy - Feb. 25
- Bush budget cuts hospital funding but silent on Medicare doctor pay - Feb. 18
- Health system reform stumbles in California - Feb. 18
- OIG approves hospital plans to share cost savings with doctors - Feb. 18
- Senate to act on Indian Health Service funding - Feb. 18
- Wellness programs cannot discriminate based on health - Feb. 18
- State of the Union message: Bush seeks insurance tax deduction - Feb. 11
- Massachusetts health system reform feeling the pinch - Feb. 11
- Senate Finance panel developing 18-month Medicare pay package - Feb. 4
- AMA takes uninsured campaign nationwide - Feb. 4
- Court gives temporary OK to San Francisco "pay or play" law - Feb. 4
- Georgia exempts general surgery centers from CON rules - Feb. 4
- Health spending outlay tops $2 trillion, but spending growth on doctors declines - Jan. 28
- Many physicians will still be hit by AMT - Jan. 28
- HHS: Specialty hospitals violated Medicare rule - Jan. 28
- CMS denials of state Medicaid expansions fuel confusion - Jan. 28
- Time tight in Medicare fight to defend some pay provisions, block add-ons - Jan. 21
- 2008 NIH budget nearly flat -- again - Jan. 21
- Suit opposes Medicare denials of off-label, non-compendia drugs - Jan. 21
- Bill aims to improve health literacy - Jan. 21
- Quick View: Big firms less receptive to health reforms - Jan. 21
- Medicare to require physicians to use new ID numbers on March 1 - Jan. 14
- It's doctor vs. doctor in race to represent Florida in U.S. House - Jan. 14
- Pennsylvania liability fund may be used to cover uninsured - Jan. 14
- New Jersey court sends blow to doctor-owned surgery centers - Jan. 14
- Quick View: High medical costs signal underlying problems - Jan. 14
- Congress OKs temporary reprieve on Medicare pay cut, renews SCHIP - Jan. 7
- Seen from the extremes: Uninsureds' effect on medicine - Jan. 7
- Congress considers mandate for Medicare e-prescribing - Jan. 7
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Professional Issues
- Heart surgeon pioneer wins highest civilian honor - May 19
- AMA to help monitor Blues settlement - May 19
- Hospitalized kids found at risk for drug errors - May 19
- Doctor disciplinary actions down for 3rd year - May 12
- Oregon still stands alone: Ten years of physician-assisted suicide - May 12
- Harvard offers discount on med school tuition - May 12
- In the Courts: Transplant surgeon faces criminal charge for donor's quick death - May 12
- Baby boomer time bomb: Too many aging patients, too few geriatricians - May 5
- Lawyers' misconduct triggers new liability trials - May 5
- Public pleas for organs fuel ethical qualms - May 5
- Physicians examine the role of annual checkups in prevention - May 5
- Texas court finds board exceeded its authority and podiatrists' scope - May 5
- Quick View: Part-time doctors - May 5
- Ethics Forum: Ambiguously ill pose challenge for doctors - May 5
- U.S. report finds sluggish increases in quality of care - April 28
- Foiling a fake (book excerpt: Charlatan) - April 28
- Hospital told to check bylaws on exclusive deals - April 28
- Advanced-practice nurses seek wider scope in 24 states - April 21
- Patients generally pleased with hospital care - April 21
- Minnesota physician can sue doctors critical of courtroom testimony - April 21
- Schools urged to police financial ties - April 21
- Quick View: Resident work-hour violations are up - April 21
- Fighting spirit: AMNews interviews Ron Davis, MD - April 14
- Similar drug-name pairs nearly double 2004 tally - April 14
- Quick View: Reportable events often go unreported - April 14
- In the Courts: Expert who changed mind claims immunity, but plaintiffs still sue - April 14
- Resident Match breaks records for applicants and couples - April 7
- Missouri Supreme Court: Doctors can sue if hospitals ignore bylaws in privileging issues - April 7
- Ethics Forum: Ask questions before working at retail clinics - April 7
- Is their integrity on the line when doctors pitch products? - March 24/31
- Students lose empathy for patients during medical school - March 24/31
- Insurers feel backlash over policy cancellations - March 17
- Older physicians trim hours in lieu of retiring - March 17
- CMS metric may prompt excessive antibiotic use - March 17
- California medical students to get court-ordered tuition refunds - March 17
- Quick View: To err is human, to report is hard - March 17
- Jinx of the J-1 visa: IMGs finding other paths to residency - March 10
- Michigan patient safety study gets HHS approval to resume - March 10
- More schools teaching spirituality in medicine - March 10
- Depressed residents make more drug errors - March 10
- In the Courts: Informed consent at heart of New York lawsuit - March 10
- AMA analysis reaffirms: Tort reforms work - March 3
- Program helps Hispanic IMGs qualify for U.S. residencies - March 3
- Medical identity theft is often an "inside job" - March 3
- More heart transplants done, better outcomes - March 3
- Ethics Forum: How to handle a prejudiced patient - March 3
- Finding one's place (book excerpt: Intern: A Doctor's Initiation) - Feb. 25
- Dual-doctor family in progress: Son follows mom to med school - Feb. 25
- Medical staff members help end problems at California hospital - Feb. 25
- Study questions impact of quality report cards - Feb. 18
- Georgia Blues plan sued under any-willing-provider law - Feb. 18
- Going to extremes: Doctoring desert runners - Feb. 18
- IOM panel seeks program to evaluate research, guidelines - Feb. 18
- Michigan law bars some IMGs from driving - Feb. 18
- Bulletproof bylaws: Maintaining the right to protect doctors -- and patients - Feb. 11
- New plan would require D.C. drug detailers to be licensed - Feb. 11
- California appeals court rules against insurer's rescission practices - Feb. 11
- Court allows suit against doctor over drug effects - Feb. 4
- HHS shuts down Michigan patient safety study - Feb. 4
- ED wait times increasing, even for AMIs, other emergent cases - Feb. 4
- Ethics Forum: Research in hospice possible, even helpful - Feb. 4
- Willing, but waiting: Hospital ethics committees - Jan. 28
- Economists' study says paying for organs would cut wait lists - Jan. 28
- Doctors use placebos but don't tell patients - Jan. 28
- Study ties hospitalist care to shorter patient stays - Jan. 28
- Quick View: Who stays in-state after training? - Jan. 28
- California court rules against insurer over policy cancellations - Jan. 21
- Call these doctors by their calling - Jan. 21
- New ACOG position on abortion refusal drawing fire - Jan. 21
- Flood of new medical schools filling accreditation pipeline - Jan. 21
- Pfizer donates "Great Moments in Medicine" art series to Michigan medical school - Jan. 14
- California law extends whistle-blower protections - Jan. 14
- California medical schools tailor programs for diverse populations - Jan. 14
- Med schools adjusting to millennial students - Jan. 14
- Aerospace medicine gearing up for tourists in space - Jan. 14
- CT scans implicated in 2% of cancers - Jan. 7
- Doctor to oversee hospital experience - Jan. 7
- No pay for "never event" errors becoming standard - Jan. 7
- Ethics Forum: Tell patients about gifts? Or just say no? - Jan. 7
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Business
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By 2030, there will be an estimated 8,000 geriatricians, but the nation will need 36,000.
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Opinion
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80% of preventive care occurs outside the context of an annual physical or gynecologic examination.
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Health & Science
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As of 2007, 8.2 million Medicare beneficiaries were enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans.
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