United States Reps. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) and Joe Heck, D.O. (R-NV) introduced the Medicare Physician Payment Innovation Act Wednesday to ensure patient access to physicians while ...
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By Phil Galewitz Kaiser Health News Updated to reflect the administration’s announcement that 500 groups will participate in a pilot program to change how ...
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By Darin Gibby and Nathan Cassell The American Medical Association (AMA) generally takes the position that patenting medical procedures is unethical, but this is completely ...
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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 »AAFP Letter in Support of Obama Gun Proposals
In response to President Obama’s announcement of proposals to reduce gun-related violence and tragedies, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) on Thursday sent the ...
Read More »Children, Young Adults Focus Of Mental Health In Obama’s Gun Plan
By Sarah Varney Kaiser Health News If the National Rifle Association’s plan to curb violence is, in part, arming school employees with guns, President Barack Obama ...
Read More »Physician Involvement in Obama Gun Control Plans
By Alan Lyndon There aren’t many issues as divisive as guns. In fact, there’s probably just one other – abortion. But today, the national debate ...
Read More »The Gun Lobby’s Favorite Part of Obamacare
By Jay Hancock Kaiser Health News Did you know the Affordable Care Act stands up for gun rights? The “Protection of Second Amendment Gun Rights” ...
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 ...
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