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Congress needs to fix medical payment system USA TODAY Share     What's most compelling about USA TODAY's article "Doctors limit new Medicare patients" is that it was written after President Obama signed into law what purportedly was the most comprehensive health reform legislation the nation has seen in decades. More AMA meeting: Physicians feeling Medicare pay pinch before six-month fix stalled in Congress American Medical News Share
Frustrated with this year's bruising Medicare pay fight, delegates at the AMA Annual Meeting ordered legislation drafted to expand private contracting options. More
No Medicaid money may mean more state cuts The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Share
The $17.9 billion state spending plan that takes effect this week is looking dicey even before the new fiscal year begins. That's because Gov. Sonny Perdue and lawmakers balanced the budget using nearly $400 million in extra federal Medicaid stimulus money that Congress has so far declined to approve. More Nine in 10 docs blame lawsuit fears for overtesting The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Share
Ninety percent of physicians surveyed said doctors over-test and over-treat to protect themselves from malpractice lawsuits. That sentiment is more common among male doctors than female doctors, according to the survey published in Archives of Internal Medicine. More Health care providers preparing for more elderly The New York Times Share
With a nudge from the new health care law and pressure from Medicare, hospitals, doctors and nurses are struggling to prepare for explosive growth in the numbers of high-risk elderly patients. More  M.S. patients calling for unproved treatment The New York Times Share
For her first appointment with Dr. Daniel Simon, Neelima Raval showed up with a rolling file cabinet full of documents. She had downloaded every word written by or about Dr. Paolo Zamboni, a vascular surgeon from Italy with a most unorthodox theory about multiple sclerosis. More Doctors focus on kids' blood pressure The Wall Street Journal Share
Amid the world-wide obesity epidemic and broader concerns about improving heart health, blood pressure has emerged as an important question -- for kids of any weight. Rising rates of hypertension among overweight kids is driving the concern, but genetics and rare medical problems also may be triggers. More
Antibiotics in animals need limits, FDA says The New York Times Share
Federal food regulators took a tentative step toward banning a common use of penicillin and tetracycline in the water and feed given cattle, chickens and pigs in hopes of slowing the growing scourge of killer bacteria. More Senate Dems will keep pushing for Medicaid aid to ailing states The Hill Share
Emergency Medicaid funding will remain a part of the Senate's failed tax package, a key Senate Democrat insisted. Some Democrats have weighed the possibility of separating the Medicaid provision -- which would extend emergency federal funding through the first half of 2011 -- in hopes of passing it more quickly and preventing severe budget cuts by cash-strapped states, which will begin as early as this week. More
Health care rationing is bound to come The Desert Dispatch Share
Critics of Obamacare have charged that the government-regulated program will lead to the rationing of health care, especially for senior citizens, which is vehemently denied by its supporters. It is not necessary to examine in detail the 2000-plus-page legislation to resolve the matter. Rather, some reflection on the nature of the new government service, and the experience of other countries with similar systems, is sufficient. More FDA's failure to regulate BPA draws lawsuit News Inferno Share
The Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over the agency's failure to regulate bisphenol A (BPA) said the SFGate. BPA is a highly ubiquitous polycarbonate plastics chemical that is known to imitate the hormone estrogen, acts as an anti-androgen, and is also known to affect sexual development and processes, especially in developing fetuses, infants, and children. More |
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