Healthcare Headlines

• Promising cancer treatment ready for human trial (7/1/08)
• Posting malpractice payout records evokes big outcry (7/1/08)
• One million new skin cancer cases expected In USA...(6/30/08)
• Help "heal" the claims process (6/30/08)
• FDA sets 2009 deadline to reclassify dental amalgam (6/26/08)
• Study warns: Electromagnetic interference in hospitals...(6/26/08)
• First meeting of health and spiritual leaders explores...(6/25/08)
• The new doctor-patient paradigm (6/25/08)
• Patients with heart disease could be harmed by...(6/24/08)
• Patients seek online second opinions from specialists (6/24/08)
• Designing a bridge to a better health care system (6/23/08)
• ADA: 2015 EHR deadline 'just around the corner' (6/23/08)
• Doc hasn't stopped helping (6/20/08)
• AMA works to strengthen the physician workforce...(6/20/08)
• How doctors can think better (6/19/08)
• AMA calls physician reimbursements flawed (6/19/08)
• Joint Commission announces 2009 national patient...(6/18/08)
• AMA adopts new policies at Annual Meeting (6/18/08)
• Dental teams make or break the practice (6/17/08)
• Hip replacement improves function, saves money...(6/17/08)
• Washington Post examines growth of employment in...(6/16/08)
• What I learned about patients' relationships (6/16/08)
• AMA to Congress: Medicare regulations burden...(6/13/08)
• Joint Commission awards first COPD certification (6/13/08)
• Best ways to deal with call coverage (6/12/08)
• Researchers update risk-of-death charts (6/12/08)
• Educate your patients about new immunization...(6/11/08)
• New imaging device can detect glaucoma risk (6/11/08)
• Challenges of large groups: Human dynamics (6/10/08)
• Washington Post opinion pieces examine health care...(6/10/08)
• Kaiser backs Microsoft patient-data plan (6/9/08)
• Cardiac devices and heart failure: Are we selecting...(6/9/08)
• Electronic records in health care (6/6/08)
• Web site will help the uninsured find resources (6/6/08)
• AMA offers solutions to help promote HIT adoption (6/5/08)
• FDA proposes major revisions to drug labeling (6/5/08)
• Heart failure patients miscalculate life expectancy (6/4/08)
• AANS neurosurgical procedural statistics survey offers...(6/4/08)
• Hospital seeks to grow at UNC (6/3/08)
• Factors enhancing career satisfaction among female...(6/3/08)
• UNC grant will help hasten medical research (6/2/08)
• Malpractice Consult: Your responsibility for patients...(6/2/08)
• The team approach to health care (5/30/08)
• ADA: Coding watchdogs wanted (5/30/08)
• Report: N.C. diabetes cases increase in 10 years (5/28/08)
• Perspective: A mixed job report for primary care (5/28/08)
• The true final verdict of my malpractice trial (5/27/08)
• Evidence indicates dental materials not a Bisphenol A...(5/27/08)
• Remembering our physicians in uniform (5/23/08)
• High blood pressure patients urged to use home monitors (5/23/08)
• Cancer patients get site (5/22/08)
• A better way to help patients (5/22/08)
• Google offers personal health records on the Web (5/21/08)
• The governor's initiative to improve health care...(5/21/08)
• Lung cancer patients can tolerate post-surgery...
• Medical ethics: Patients' needs versus maximizing...(5/20/08)
• Joint Commission awards first COPD certification (5/19/08)
• Training health care personnel to work with health care...(5/19/08)
• The humor behind health care reform (5/16/08)
• E-prescribing and health information technology (5/16/08)
• The Joint commission to study consumer use of quality...(5/15/08)
• ADA: Washington Leadership Conference opens with...(5/15/08)
• Advanced wound closure techniques replacing suture...(5/14/08)
• Performance Measures: Finally, some agreement on...(5/14/08)
• ADA/NADP share views on coordination of benefits (5/13/08)
• The role Of gender in disease should be considered...(5/13/08)
• Small practice evolution: The open-access medical...(5/12/08)
• AMA works to advance e-prescribing (5/12/08)
• Procedure hopes to give stroke victims extra time for...(5/9/08)
• Doctors feel there is a need for clearer understanding...(5/9/08)
• Tips for managing medical office document clutter (5/8/08)
• AMA urges Congress to save specialty hospitals for...(5/8/08)
• Finding certified health care organizations near you (5/6/08)
• ADA takes issue with NY Times report on access...(5/6/08)
• Tips for managing medical office document clutter (5/5/08)
• Heart failure patients may suffer similarly to advanced...(5/5/08)
• FDA issues market clearance for new form of latex...(5/2/08)
• Heart failure patients' health improved by remote...(5/2/08)
• Head & neck cancer treatment improved by robotic...(5/1/08)
• Scientists find a quicker way to make antibodies (5/1/08)
• AMA runs ads, medical students conduct events...(4/30/08)
• Report blasts blood studies (4/30/08)
• Researchers pin down main factors for heart failure...(4/29/08)
• ADA: May 23 deadline for NPI compliance (4/29/08)
• FDA panel urges stronger warnings for LASIK...(4/28/08)
• Will you be misdiagnosed? - How diagnostic errors...(4/28/08)
• Palliative care is the area of health care in which doctors...(4/25/08)
• Making health care greener (4/25/08)
• ADA: Think twice before you speak (4/24/08)
• Docs press for kid-friendly medical tools (4/24/08)
• Get your NPI number NOW (4/23/08)
• Chemotherapy's effects on the brain (4/23/08)