April 1st, 2008 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
Washington — The push to prevent impending Medicare physician pay cuts is being advanced by a new bill that would block such reductions for 18 months.
The legislation, called the Save Medicare Act of 2008, would continue a 0.5% physician pay update for the last six months of 2008 and would institute a 1.8% update for 2009. Physicians are slated to receive a 10.6% cut starting July 1 and an additional cut of about 5% in 2009.
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March 14th, 2008 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
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Paying substance abuse treatment providers for results, not services, may lead to improved quality of care, according to the first published study of a novel performance-based contracting system implemented by the State of Delaware in 2002.
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March 2nd, 2008 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
Washington — Federal regulators have proposed sweeping patient safety rules to give physicians and others a confidential, voluntary way to report medical errors and near mistakes. Several health care organizations applauded the release of the long-awaited regulations but want a closer look before making a final judgment.
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December 3rd, 2007 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
Two teams of scientists simultaneously announced they have reprogrammed human skin cells to obtain pluripotency, the characteristic hailed in embryonic stem cells as having the potential for therapeutic breakthroughs in areas ranging from Parkinson’s disease to diabetes.
Scientists in Japan and Wisconsin created the so-called induced pluripotent cells by introducing different combinations of genes into skin cells that are normally switched off after embryonic cells differentiate into various cell types. The results were published last month in Read the rest of this entry »
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November 30th, 2007 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
Tomorrow is World AIDS Day and instead of “barraging you with [another set of] statistics, gruesome photos, or heart-wrenching stories” (quote credit to Mr. Casnocaha), I want to alert you to something we prefer here - solutions, problem solving, technology, and creative thinking. Piya Sorcar, a doctoral student in Stanford’s Learning, Sciences & Technology Design program has used her considerable skills to figure out how to reach the minds of children in devleoping countries when it comes to HIV/AIDS education.
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November 24th, 2007 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
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November 18th, 2007 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
An anti-psychotic drug already approved in the U.S. to treat adults and adolescents with schizophrenia may soon be available for youngsters age 10 to 17 years of age suffering from bipolar disorder.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given priority review status to the drug Abilify which is manufactured by Bristol-Myers Squibb and Otsuka Pharmaceutical.
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November 8th, 2007 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
U.S. anti-drug officials say that corrupt military leaders and others in Venezuela are working with Colombian drug cartels to smuggle cocaine into the U.S., the Washington Post reported Oct. 27.
No cocaine is cultivated in Venezuela, but about 220 tons of the drug are funneled through the country each year, bound for the U.S. and Europe, experts said. The Bush administration has treated the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as a pariah, meaning there has been little cooperation between the governments to stop the flow of drugs. “The problem of drugs has gotten out of the hands of Venezuela,” said Mildred Camero, a former drug czar for Chavez. “Now the situation in Venezuela is grave, grave, grave. At some moment, we’re going to collapse.”
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