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Health care on agenda in state Senate The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Share     Sen. Preston Smith is generally popular with his fellow legislators and staffers who frequently chat him up at his desk on the back row of the Senate chamber. But recently the Republican from Rome has been subjected to name-calling and accusations that health care legislation he has proposed would encourage people to lie. Smith has introduced two health care bills. One would allow small businesses to band together to insure their workers as one group. More 61 percent say Congress should start all over again on health care Rasmussen Reports Share
President Obama this week called for a televised bipartisan summit to get his health care reform plan back on track, but 61 percent of U.S. voters say Congress should scrap that plan and start all over again. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds just 28 percent who think it is better to build on the health care plan that has been working its way through the House and Senate. More
WellPoint plan to boost rates 39 percent revives Obama's efforts Columbus Ledger-Enquirer Share
Health insurer WellPoint blames the Great Recession and rising medical costs for its planned 39 percent rate increase for some California customers. To President Barack Obama, however, it's Exhibit A in his campaign to revive the health care overhaul. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who received the company's explanation in a letter, said "it remains difficult to understand" how premium increases of that size by can be justified when WellPoint Inc. reported a $2.7 billion profit in the last quarter of 2009. More A rate hike for the few -- until it's you The Associated Press Share
To critics, a 39 percent hike in health insurance for some Californians foretells skyrocketing rates for the rest of us. Not so, says the company, arguing the increase only hits a relatively small number of people and the economy is to blame. But the rhetoric from both sides distorts the reality. It's true that hikes like the one by WellPoint Inc. apply only to people who buy individual insurance and are unlikely to spread to the majority of Americans covered through their employers. But such hikes also hit a huge number of Americans who mostly went unmentioned in the furor -- the 46 million with no insurance at all. More  Expecting a surge in U.S. medical schools The New York Times Share
Peter Allen applied to 30 medical schools after graduating from the University of Pittsburgh last year. Twenty-eight said no. Of the two that said yes, one had something in common with Allen: It, too, was starting out in medicine. He enrolled in the inaugural class of The Commonwealth Medical College in Scranton, Pa. More Results unproven, robotic surgery wins converts The New York Times Share
At age 42, Dr. Jeffrey A. Cadeddu felt like a dinosaur in urologic surgery. He was trained to take out cancerous prostates the traditional laparoscopic way: making small incisions in the abdomen and inserting tools with his own hands to slice out the organ. But now, patient after patient was walking away. They did not want that kind of surgery. They wanted surgery by a robot, controlled by a physician not necessarily even in the operating room, face buried in a console, working the robot's arms with remote controls. More
Herpes drug Acyclovir may benefit HIV patients DrugWatch.com Share
According to a study published online by The Lancet, patients with HIV-1 and herpes simplex virus type 2 may experience slowed progression of HIV-1 by taking the antiviral medication acyclovir. Acyclovir is prescribed to patients with herpes to treat symptoms associated with the viral infection, such as cold sores and blisters, and slow the growth of the virus. More St. Vincent's shares patient's heart procedure on Twitter Jacksonville.com Share
Robert Peacock is no celebrity, but his heart may be on its way to becoming one. The Waycross, Ga., man allowed St. Vincent's Medical Center in Jacksonville to "tweet" his heart procedure. That is, a hospital representative gave a snip-by-snip account of the procedure live on the social-networking site Twitter. More MAG Georgia Pulse now available as an iPhone app MAG Share
 The Medical Association of Georgia (MAG) understands the need to deliver timely, relevant industry news to its members and other medical professionals. In partnering with MultiBriefs to create the MAG Georgia Pulse, the association committed itself to delivering this news to members and other medical professionals. That
partnership has now expanded to provide another convenient avenue to receive this information. The MAG Georgia Pulse is now part of the new MultiBriefs app, available now for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch in the App Store. Simply search "MultiBriefs" in the App Store and download the app free of charge. Once the MultiBriefs application is downloaded, you can add the MAG feed from the "Healthcare and Medical" section. News is streamed into your iPhone or iPod Touch each week. And just
like the e-mail news brief you’ve become accustomed to, you may share articles with your colleagues via e-mail, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. You can even bookmark certain articles as favorites to revisit at a later date. As always, feedback is appreciated and is important to the success of the app. Feel free to rate the application in the App Store.
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