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Payola And Doctors

Doctors and Money

I wrote about the cozy relationship between pharmaceutical companies and academics last month but now the subject is heating up in the New York Times.

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Heart attack not a death sentence

Survivors of cardiac arrest who received intensive care can expect long-term quality of life at reasonable expense to the health care system. Research published today in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care is the first to show that the allocation of resources to the treatment of heart attack patients is equally as justified as the treatment of other intensive care patient groups.

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Raw deal for foreign brides in Taiwan

More than a quarter of a million women have been sold as wives and baby-makers in South East Asia, but they are getting a raw deal in health care and social inclusion.

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Payola And Doctors

I wrote about the cozy relationship between pharmaceutical companies and academics last month but now the subject is heating up in the New York Times.

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Changes in local health care markets affect national patient safety project

A national patient safety initiative involving major corporate employers and employer health care coalitions may set common goals, but success relies greatly on regional health care players and local market factors for actual implementation, says a recent study.

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Reverse Mortgages – Tool For Retirees to Protect Against Rising Costs

A recent AARP study shows that 26% of people they surveyed were finding it more difficult to pay their mortgage or rent, and 66% found it more difficult to pay for food, gas and medicine.

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Access to Electronic Medical Records Increases Efficiency of Emergency Care

A new study led by Paul Sierzenski, MD, RDMS, of Christiana Care Health System, Wilmington, DE, discusses the benefits gained from providing health care workers with immediate access to patient medical records during a mass casualty incident.

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Insurance execs perspective on McCain Plan

Bob Laszewski posted yesterday on the Center for American Progress' report on the additional costs inherent in Sen McCain's health care plan.

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Will polyclinics deliver real benefits to patients?

Government proposals to establish polyclinics are intended to reshape NHS services, but will they deliver the more patient centred care they propose, or do they risk becoming an expensive mistake"

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E-health recommendations aimto improve health care quality, safety, access

Health care may be the fastest growing industry, but it has been slow to adopt the use of technology. While orders at fast food chains are now entirely automated, most physician offices and hospitals still maintain their records on paper.

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The cost of ignorance of Medical

Many payers look at 'medical' as a line item and nothing more. This myopia, this failure to look deeper, to try to understand what drives medical, is perhaps the most significant shortcoming in the industry.

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Medical research is essential to improving economy and bettering lives

Health care in the United States is expensive, but its funding is crucial because it also is a major contributor to the economy and can better lives, according to an essay appearing in the June 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). Because of the cost of health care, this is not time to shrink the budget at the National Institutes of Health, which funds medical research that leads to potentially curative therapy.

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Mental disorders cost society billions in unearned income

Major mental disorders cost the nation at least $193 billion annually in lost earnings alone, according to a new study funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The study was published in the May 2008 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry.

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