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MAG launching innovative news briefs report
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The Medical Association of Georgia (MAG) recently entered into an agreement with MultiView, Inc. to produce an innovative communications resource to keep physicians in
the state informed on key issues. MAG Director of Communications Tom Kornegay says the Georgia Pulse e-mail will be distributed to
physicians in the state each Thursday beginning in late January or early
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Legislators mull health care fees
The Athens Banner-Herald
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Facing a massive gap in Medicaid funding, Georgia's top health official urged state legislators Thursday to raise taxes on hospitals and health care plans. The state is staring down a $506 million shortfall in Medicaid funds for the fiscal year that begins July 1,
according to state Health Commissioner Rhonda Meadows.
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Perspective on health care's big numbers
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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No matter what the players involved in the
health-care reform fight want for the bill, they’re all united in one respect: They want you to believe this is the biggest thing in the world. Republicans want you to believe it’s a dangerous proposal that will wreck a sixth of the economy. Democrats want you to believe it’s a marvelous bill that will fix the health-care system. The news media frequently take both claims at face value.
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Cut in Medicare fees was averted due to defense spending bill
Modern Medicine
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A 21 percent reduction in physicians' Medicare fees was temporarily averted thanks to a defense spending bill signed by the President in late December. Lawmakers offered a two-month patch to the Sustainable Growth Rate
(SGR), a component of the formula Medicare uses annually to calculate physician fee schedules. Every year since 2002, the SGR called for payment reductions, but since 2003 Congress has stepped in to avert cuts.
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Why health insurance premiums won't drop under Obama health proposals
ABC News
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"When it becomes law, families will save on their premiums," President Obama declared in his weekly radio address before Christmas, pitching his health care reform. If only that were so. Nobody who tracks health insurance sees any sign of softening premium prices for people who already have insurance, Obamacare or not. Premiums for 2010 were up 10 percent and are predicted to keep growing at the same rate
in coming years. Health insurance is beginning to resemble air travel--where deep-pocketed business passengers subsidize penny-pinching vacationers. Insurance companies, under the measures in Congress, would be forced to take all comers, young and old, healthy and sick.
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Tough medicine
The Rome News-Tribune
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Call it the deficit reduction two-step. Spooked Democrats have decided
to form a special deficit reduction commission (one step forward), but the members will be named by the president and there will be no enforceable requirement for an up-or-down vote in the next session of Congress (two steps back). In a deal miraculously reached right after Massachusetts picked a Republican to fill liberal lion Edward Kennedy's old seat, the White House and Democratic congressional leaders reached a tentative agreement to form the cost-saving commission.
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Dems mum on how to keep pushing health overhaul
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders insist they will push ahead with efforts to overhaul health care. They just aren't explaining how. Obama acknowledges running into a "bit of a buzz saw" of opposition. A top
Democrat suggests Congress slow down on health care, a sign of eroding political will in the wake of Republican upset in the Massachusetts Senate race Tuesday.
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Repairing a disaster
The Rome News-Tribune
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Being fond of legislative proposals that don’t cost a dime, a few kind words are in order for one that Sen. Preston Smith, R-Rome, has come up with. Frankly, it is a bit amazing to consider that there’s an existing barrier to saving lives actually in existence and that it
would take a new law to remove it. Smith, in his Volunteer Emergency Assistance Bill (SB 315), would allow emergency personnel licensed in other states, such as doctors and others with specialized health-care skills, to render their services in Georgia in case of a natural or man-made disaster.
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Study finds drop in age-related hearing problems
The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
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Sweet news for baby boomers: Despite all those warnings that loud rock music would damage their ears, their generation appears to have better hearing than their parents did. In fact, a new study suggests that the rate of hearing problems at ages ranging from 45 to 75 has been dropping for years, at least among white
Americans.
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New guidelines designed to help play the health cards right
The Athens Banner-Herald
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The American Heart Association has come up with a measuring stick - Life's Simple 7, designed to let people accurately
gauge their heart health. The association also has unveiled a new Web site that allows anyone to score themselves on each of the seven measures, and then help come up with an action plan for improvement.
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Local health-care professionals weigh in on mammogram guidelines
The Macon Telegraph
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"There are points on both sides and mammography isn't perfect. But breast cancer increases with age, and there’s enough breast cancer in women under 50 to warrant screening.," said Dr. David Frolich, radiologist in Macon. "Additionally, clinical breast examinations and self-exams are important tools in breast health. We're diagnosing a lot of benign disease today — and work-ups do cause anxiety and incur additional
costs. However, with modern diagnostic tools, morbidity is minimal and costs are reasonable. The sooner a tumor is detected, the better chance of a cure. It doesn't make sense to delay screening a woman until she's 50, and see the cancer that began at age 41, grow for nearly ten years before we find it."
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FDA approves Novo-Nordisk's diabetes drug Victoza
The Macon Telegraph
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Federal health officials on Monday approved Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk's once-daily injection for treating type 2 diabetes but said more safety studies are needed before it can be cleared as a first-line treatment for the disease. The Food and Drug Administration said it approved the drug, Victoza, to help lower blood sugar
levels when coupled with diet, exercise and other diabetes medicines. It was not recommended as an initial therapy for patients who have not been able to control their diabetes with diet and exercise alone.
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Experts call for greater obesity awareness
The Augusta Chronicle
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While caring for a mother with Alzheimer's
disease and taking in a grandchild, the last thing on Donna Black's mind was what she was eating. "You live in a state of total exhaustion," said Black, 59, of Belvedere. "There's not time to plan out a healthy meal. You just take whatever is there in front of you." That contributed to a 60-pound gain, but since September she has whittled away more than half of that by eating sensibly, with help from University Hospital Diabetes Services. Unfortunately, not enough people are joining her, experts
say. Though the rates of adult and childhood obesity appear to have leveled off, experts say it is too early to say whether that will continue.
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Governor unveils 2011 budget plan
The Macon
Telegraph
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State employees, including teachers, will face three more furlough days between now and June 30, but none in the next fiscal
year under budget proposals Gov. Sonny Perdue announced Friday. Perdue also announced another proposed cut in state education funding, which he put at "less than 3 percent." Most other state departments would see 8 to 9 percent cuts in the governor's new budgets. Perdue said he hopes the cuts can be absorbed without substantial layoffs, though there are some job cuts sprinkled throughout the budget.
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Poll shows growing fears on health care overhaul
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Fears about President Barack Obama's health care overhaul increased significantly in December, according to a new poll released as the legislation's future hangs in doubt. The monthly poll out Monday from the nonpartisanRobert Wood Johnson Foundation
measured consumers' views of how a remake would affect their own finances and access to care, among other things.
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