"Health & Medical News"

Washington — Assuring the safety of medical products imported from China, including certain antibiotics and a popular statin, is the goal of a new agreement signed in Beijing by Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt and the head of China’s State Food and Drug Administration.

The two nations are embarking on a plan to build safety into importation from the start, Leavitt said in a Dec. 19, 2007, speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. “We can’t inspect everything,” he noted. “We need to know who to trust.”

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State medical board leaders are exploring a new way to assure the public that physicians retain skills throughout their careers. But some doctors say the boards’ plan is just more busywork.

Board leaders are working on an initiative to expand the requirements for maintenance of licensure, a process in which doctors demonstrate continued competence at the time of relicensing. In most states, physicians can maintain their licenses just by having no disciplinary actions against them and by completing a minimum number of hours of continuing medical education.

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