By Keith Kantor The costs of Obamacare are staggering and will be devastating to small businesses in America. The initial estimates have risen from zero ...
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By Harvey B. Lefton, MD We face ongoing changes in Medicine today which will alter our future practice patterns. We all recognize the need for better ...
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Increasingly trending in health care — and becoming more common as we move closer to the 2014 implementation of the Affordable Care Act — is ...
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By Cheryl Bettigole, MD, MPH As physicians, some of us have the job of rising in the middle of the night to try to reverse ...
Read More »Doctor: It’s time for a serious conversation about preventing gun violence
By Jeffrey Cain, MD The recent tragedies in Colorado and Connecticut highlight the need for focused attention on the all-too-often unacknowledged public health concern of ...
Read More »Resolution: Be Aware of Hazards of Dietary Supplements
By Victor J. Navarro, MD Workout facilities and vegetable aisles are usually jammed this time of year as people vow to get fit and lose weight. ...
Read More »ACP Flu Strategy: Immunize All Healthcare Providers
The American College of Physicians (ACP) has approved a policy recommendation that all health care providers (HCPs) be immunized against influenza; diphtheria; hepatitis B; measles, ...
Read More »Physician: Speak Out Against Gun Violence
By Harvey B. Lefton, MD With the senseless violence at the Sandy Hook elementary school we are once again plunged into a period of national ...
Read More »Addressing the Obesity Epidemic
By Ramsey Dallal, MD, FACS The public’s appreciation of the dangers of obesity may have expanded recently, but unfortunately, Americans’ waistlines have continued to expand, ...
Read More »Resource for Docs to Fight Pill Scammers
Physicians, medical practices, and hospitals now have an educational resource to help educate themselves in the ongoing battle against pill scammers – also known as ...
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