A first-of-its-kind vaccine to prevent breast cancer has shown overwhelmingly favorable results in animal models, according to a study by researchers at Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner ...
Read More »Government Loans To Docs May Raise Health Costs
By Phil Galewitz Kaiser Health News Eager to expand or modernize, about 5,000 doctors, dentists and other health care providers have obtained more than $2.5 ...
Read More »Stereotactic Body Radiosurgery at Abington Provides Improved Local Control for Certain Cancers
By Ashish B. Patel, MD In radiation therapy, higher doses produce better tumor control. Yet doses typically must be fractionated in order to limit damage ...
Read More »Majority of Docs Say Defensive Medicine Negatively Impacts Patient Care
According to a new national survey of physicians by Jackson Healthcare, 72 percent of physicians report that the practice of defensive medicine negatively impacts patient ...
Read More »Key to Health Care Reform: Reinvent Primary Care
Successful health care reform relies on building up primary care infrastructure, particularly in moving to more comprehensive models such as the patient-centered medical home. That’s ...
Read More »Medical Societies Set New Policy for Industry Influence
Chicago, IL – The Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) on Wednesday announced the release of the CMSS Code for Interactions with Companies. The code ...
Read More »Both Raloxifene and Tamoxifen Effective in Preventing Breast Cancer
Initial results of the Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene, or STAR, show that the drug raloxifene, currently used to prevent and treat osteoporosis in postmenopausal ...
Read More »Medicare Physician Payment Cuts Delayed (Again)
Congress approved, and President Obama signed, legislation Thursday night to delay 21% payment cuts in Medicare reimbursements to physicians through May 31. The cuts were ...
Read More »State Medical Boards Discipline More Docs in 2009
Each year, the Federation of State Medical Boards publishes the Summary of Board Actions, a compilation of disciplinary actions initiated by its 70 member medical boards. In ...
Read More »Court Says Company Can't Patent Breast Cancer Gene
A federal judge ruled Monday that seven patents related to the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes held by Myriad Genetics were “improperly granted” as they related ...
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