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Doctors Say Trial Lawyers, Insurance Companies Also To Blame for Health Costs 24 Jul 2013 | 05:02 pm
By Alvin Tran When it comes to controlling the country’s health care costs, doctors point their fingers at lawyers, insurance companies, drug makers and hospitals. But ...
Parasitic Worms: Potential Tool for Treating Autoimmune Diseases 24 Jul 2013 | 04:52 pm
By Karin Hehenberger, M.D., Ph.D. The prevalence of autoimmune disorders—such as Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, multiple sclerosis and type-1 diabetes—is comparatively high throughout the develo...
Medicare May Turn To Ratings System for Hospitals 23 Jul 2013 | 04:49 pm
By Jordan Rau Star wars may be coming to a hospital near you. Medicare is considering assigning stars or some other easily understood symbol to hospitals so ...
Medicare Enhances Doctor-Rating Website 1 Jul 2013 | 09:34 am
By Jordan Rau Medicare last week added new features to its Physician Compare website as it prepares to start including quality data on thousands of doctors. The ...
Medical Society Reacts to Supreme Court Decision on DOMA 27 Jun 2013 | 06:46 pm
By Thomas K. McInerny, MD On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two historic decisions affirming the right of same-gender couples to marry. The American Academy ...
Should Medicaid Patients Be Denied Organ Transplants? 21 Jun 2013 | 04:38 pm
Neurological surgeon David McKalip M.D., a Florida delegate to the American Medical Association (AMA), this week lead the effort to ensure the AMA would stand strongly in ...
Supreme Court Says Breast Cancer Genes Cannot Be Patented 19 Jun 2013 | 08:19 pm
The U.S. Supreme Court today unanimously invalidated patents on two genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer in response to a lawsuit filed by ...
Facebook Raises The Status Of Organ Donation 18 Jun 2013 | 04:43 pm
By Ankita Rao Toni Lewis-Bennett remembers hesitating when she was asked to be an organ donor while applying for her driver’s license. But years later, when a ...
Medical Schools Not Graduating Enough Primary Care Docs 12 Jun 2013 | 11:31 pm
The nation’s medical education system — and the graduate medical education funding that supports it — are failing to produce the primary care physician workforce ...
Doctors: iPads More Useful Than Smartphones for Healthcare 12 Jun 2013 | 11:05 pm
Bigger is better. Screen size, that is. Two reports based on a survey of nearly 1,400 physicians suggests that tablets are of greater use for clinical purposes ...
