Medical Practice

Magazine articles on medical practice and technical issues of treatment.

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Managed Care May 2007	Self-Referral Persists Despite Stark II Law Loopholes in federal and state laws that curb physician referral to diagnostic imaging providers in which they have a financial stake (self-referral) are allowing physicians to stretch how they are paid and for what.
Managed Care May 2007 Thomas Morrow	Monoclonal Antibody Now Available to Prevent Red Blood Cell Breakdown Symptom relief was the only treatment for hemoglobin found in the urine. Now Solaris prevents the complement cascade.
Chemistry World May 25, 2007 Victoria Gill	EU Legislation Would Prevent Medical MRI Scans The limits set by an EU directive designed to reduce adverse health effects on workers exposed to electro-magnetic fields could keep patients from undergoing valuable magnetic resonance imaging scans, warn Australian researchers.
Chemistry World May 22, 2007 Victoria Gill	GSK Drug's Safety Questioned A prominent US clinician has concluded that a diabetes drug produced by UK pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline increases the risks of heart attack and death.
Chemistry World May 8, 2007 Lionel Milgrom	Yearly Anti-Osteoporosis Jab Goes Straight to the Bone One injection of a new anti-osteoporosis drug a year can stop osteoporotic bone fractures in post-menopausal women, report researchers. The drug is already marketed by Novartis as Zometa (zoledronic acid) for use in several other disorders.
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2007 Kevin A. Schulman	Kid Tested, Government Approved? Critics claim pharma is too richly rewarded for studying drugs in children. Now, several legislative proposals are on the table that just might change that.
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2007 Steve Singer	Medical Education: Community of Change Continuing medical education professionals need not reinvent the wheel to accomplish more. But we do have to better align our approaches to the way in which healthcare is actually delivered.
American Journal of Nursing May 2007 Cole & Richards	Sleep Disruption in Older Adults Review of current literature on sleep disruption in older adults and ways that nurses can apply the information in intervening to improve sleep in their older patients.
Managed Care April 2007	Headlines On Deadline ... Members of Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies and privately-held health plans tend to rate their overall service experience notably higher than enrollees of non-Blue plans owned by publicly-traded companies...More employers are offering consumer-directed health plans... etc.
Managed Care April 2007	Physicians Oppose Public Disclosure of Quality Although 3 out of 4 primary care physicians support the use of financial rewards as an incentive for better medical care, the majority would rather not make quality assessments readily available to the public, according to a recent survey.
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