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Eighth Annual CTO Summit and Left Main Coronary Interventions Course to be held Feb. 14-16, in New York City

The Eighth Annual Chronic Total Occlusion Summit and Left Main Coronary Interventions Course is a three-day conference featuring state-of-the-art technologies, research findings and new developments in therapeutic procedures essential for interventional cardiologists to optimize success in chronic total coronary occlusions and left main coronary interventions.

4 Jan 2011

Childhood/adolescent victimization: Enhanced outreach needed

Almost half of U.S. youth who experience violence, abuse or crime have had at least one of their victimizations known to school, police or medical authorities, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

4 Jan 2011

14th World Conference on Lung Cancer: Online registration opens

Online registration opens today for the 14th World Conference on Lung Cancer, which will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from July 3-7, 2011.

4 Jan 2011

MBGH releases survey results of employers' reactions to health reform

Today the Midwest Business Group on Health (MBGH) released the results of a recent national employer survey gauging the reactions and concerns related to health reform after the mid-term November elections. Conducted by MBGH and co-sponsored by the National Business Coalition on Health (NBCH), Business Insurance and Workforce Management, the findings indicate that employers believe the law will increase their benefit costs and changes are needed in the law to improve quality, reduce expenses and reward health system performance.

4 Jan 2011

New program may help reduce hospital readmission rates for high-risk seniors

SCAN Health Plan and Lakewood IPA have partnered with Dovetail Health in a program designed to reduce readmission rates for high-risk seniors following discharge from hospitals and skilled nursing facilities.

4 Jan 2011

Take control of your healthcare

Medical decisions are too important to leave in the hands of doctors. That is why Dr. Steven Z. Kussin recently launched a campaign, www.MedicalAdvocate.com, to teach Americans how to take control of their healthcare by becoming their own patient advocate.

4 Jan 2011

Non-radiologist physicians are paid more for NDI by Medicare than radiologists

Researchers have found that Medicare payments for non-invasive medical imaging, including magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography scans, are now higher to non-radiologists than to radiologists, according to a study in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

4 Jan 2011

Speaker Pelosi releases statement on Republican legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act

Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today after the incoming House Republican leadership posted their legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act:

4 Jan 2011

New USP standards to improve health literacy, proper medication usage among patients

For the first time, universal standards to guide the content, language, format and appearance of prescription medication labels to reflect how patients read and understand medication instructions are being proposed on a national level.

4 Jan 2011

JAMIA introduces number of changes to journal's business operations and contents

The Jan-Feb 2011 issue of JAMIA, the scientific journal on informatics in health and biomedicine, introduces not only a new Editor-in-Chief, but also a number of changes to the journal's business operations and contents.

4 Jan 2011

AHF to supply $1 million in free AIDS drugs to Florida's disenrolled and wait listed HIV/AIDS patients

As the State of Florida grapples with a budget shortfall that has crippled its AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) and forced the state to potentially disenroll 350 Florida patients already on ADAP as well as place nearly 2,400 low-income Floridians on waiting lists to access lifesaving medications, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has proposed an innovative plan to help state health officials and displaced HIV/AIDS patients bridge the transition to private patient assistance programs run by the major pharmaceutical companies.

4 Jan 2011

SelectHealth ranked Utah's top HMO health plan

SelectHealth is Utah's top ranked HMO health plan, according to a recent report issued by the Utah Health Data Committee.

4 Jan 2011

Lancet editorial highlights similarities between current health challenges, those from 1911

"After a century of progress, the issues that medicine must tackle in the coming year aren't that different from the ones that faced doctors at the start of 1911, according to the observations" published Jan. 1 in a Lancet editorial, LiveScience reports (Parry, 12/30).

4 Jan 2011

Newsweek reports on growth of safety net programs in developing countries

"[A] recent study by the World Health Organization and the International Labor Organization identified 72 different 'social pension' plans around the world dedicated to the elderly, the ill, or the down and out," Newsweek writes in an article exploring the growth in welfare programs around the world. "Most countries on the [WHO/ILO] list are developing nations once considered too destitute to help their poor and that, until recently, had little or no welfare coverage at all.

4 Jan 2011

Baby boomers lack knowledge about Alzheimer's disease

An online survey of baby boomers across Canada conducted by the Alzheimer Society reveals a worrying lack of awareness about Alzheimer's disease.

4 Jan 2011

Media examine potential Obama administration engagement with Africa in 2011, foreign policy action on Capitol Hill

"President Barack Obama is quietly but strategically stepping up his outreach to Africa, using this year to increase his engagement with a continent that is personally meaningful to him and important to U.S. interests," the Associated Press writes in a story looking at how the Obama administration might engage with African countries in the upcoming year.

4 Jan 2011

New House GOP leaders plan early vote on health law repeal

Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said Republicans would hold a vote on repealing the health-care law before Obama delivers his State of the Union address later this month. Upton said disenchantment with the law is so pervasive in the new House that they could reach the two-thirds threshold to overturn a likely presidential veto.

4 Jan 2011

ASE releases set of recommendations for quality echocardiography laboratory operations

The American Society of Echocardiography released a set of recommendations and measurable standards for quality in the echocardiography laboratory today.

4 Jan 2011

U-M research shows children are more frequently exposed to radiation through imaging tests

Children frequently exposed to medical imaging procedures that utilize radiation, U-M research shows. "Our findings indicate that more awareness about the frequent use of these tests may be needed among care providers, hospitals and parents," says Adam L. Dorfman, M.D., clinical assistant professor of pediatrics and communicable diseases and of radiology at the U-M Medical School.

4 Jan 2011

Senator eyes plan to ease prescription drug shortages

As a shortage of some cancer drugs and certain other medications persists, a U.S. senator from Minnesota is proposing legislation she says will help federal regulators address the problem (Snowbeck, 12/28).

4 Jan 2011

Healthcare News

Eighth Annual CTO Summit and Left Main Coronary Interventions Course to be held Feb. 14-16, in New York City

Childhood/adolescent victimization: Enhanced outreach needed

14th World Conference on Lung Cancer: Online registration opens

MBGH releases survey results of employers' reactions to health reform

New program may help reduce hospital readmission rates for high-risk seniors

Take control of your healthcare

Non-radiologist physicians are paid more for NDI by Medicare than radiologists

Speaker Pelosi releases statement on Republican legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act

New USP standards to improve health literacy, proper medication usage among patients

JAMIA introduces number of changes to journal's business operations and contents

AHF to supply $1 million in free AIDS drugs to Florida's disenrolled and wait listed HIV/AIDS patients

SelectHealth ranked Utah's top HMO health plan

Lancet editorial highlights similarities between current health challenges, those from 1911

Newsweek reports on growth of safety net programs in developing countries

Baby boomers lack knowledge about Alzheimer's disease

Media examine potential Obama administration engagement with Africa in 2011, foreign policy action on Capitol Hill

New House GOP leaders plan early vote on health law repeal

ASE releases set of recommendations for quality echocardiography laboratory operations

U-M research shows children are more frequently exposed to radiation through imaging tests

Senator eyes plan to ease prescription drug shortages

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