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Joseph Cao: Health Care's LONE Republican Supporter Is Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
One Republican lawmaker out of 177 crossed party lines to support the health care reform legislation offered by Democrats. Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao, the Louisiana Republican who hails from a decidedly Democratic New Orleans district, voted yea on the final passage of legislation. He joined 219 Democrats to make the final margin 220 to 215 in favor of reform's passage. Cao was a major (and possibly...
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Anh "Joseph" Cao's Statement
FREEDOM EDEN (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Anh "Joseph" Cao explains his vote, the only Republican defection for the health care bill in the House. Cao Votes for “Life”; Achieves Legislation to Protect the Health of All Americans Tonight, Congressman Anh “Joseph” Cao (LA-2) voted in favor of the comprehensive health reform bill, H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. Of his vote, Cao said: “Tonight,...
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Inside Medicine: System could communicate better, but patients have responsibility, too
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Patients often leave the doctor's office with careful instructions about what to do if their illness doesn't get better – or if it gets worse. They are given instructions to "call or return to the office if …" These instructions often are difficult to follow and leave much to be interpreted by the patient. Sometimes they require difficult judgments. For example, is it worth going...
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Medelita Celebrates National Nurse Practitioner Week
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Nurse practitioners provide 125,000 solutions to the primary care shortage
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Bummer. Totally
politickybitch (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Well, yesterday's news was quite the bummer. Scary in fact. I was on a base yesterday, changing my primary care physician. Really glad that the shrink who snapped was on a different military base in a different state. I wouldn't be the first time I've heard of a shrink doing shit that was totally whack. Frankly, it makes me grateful that mine is professional and patient. It took years to find something...
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Biovitrum Creates Rare-Disease Focused Spec Pharma with Swedish Orphan Buy
The IN VIVO Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Sweden’s Biovitrum on November 5 stumped up just over half a billion dollars for compatriot Swedish Orphan, buying itself a tidy additional SEK800 million ($115 million) in revenues, an extended commercial network and a couple of near-term launch opportunities. The move is yet another step in Biovitrum’s transformation into a specialty pharma company—coming just a week after it offloaded...
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Care Quality Commission All NHS providers have...
John Rostill's Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Care Quality Commission All NHS providers have to register under the Health and Social Care Act 2008. We need to apply for registration in January 2010. The Care Quality Commission is currently consulting on proposed fees for registration and it looks as though it will cost this Trust £60,000 per year. Politics! Andy Burnham, the Secretary of State for Health, is/has been in Washington (perhaps...
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In Washington, It's Always Opposite Day
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Unintended consequences seem to be the order of the day: In addition to Martin Feldstein's piece positing that health-care reform might actually incentivize people to drop their insurance until they get sick (thus shrinking the risk pool and increasing premiums), former Bush budget official James Capretta has a useful post explaining how the a Medicare payment system originally designed to encourage...
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More Than Baby Steps
Bad Attitudes (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Looking at the bright side, here's Maggie Mahar, at Health Beat : For example, under the House bill, a family of three making $32,000 a year would pay $1,360 in annual premiums for good, comprehensive coverage; under the Senate Finance Committee bill, that family would be asked to lay out $2,013. Today, without reform, if that family tried to buy insurance, it would find that the average plan costs...
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UK swine flu cases data where you live
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Swine flu cases across the UK with data showing swine flu rates in England, Scotland and Wales We know there are still a lot of swine flu cases across the country right now - rates are starting to rise again with the onset of the flu season. But where are the concentrations? Which areas have the highest rates? Now we know. Produced by Nottingham University's Division of Primary Care the figures show...
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A Children’s expert answers parents’ questions about the swine flu
Thrive (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Joanne Cox, MD, director of Children’s Hospital Boston’s Primary Care Center, answers questions about H1N1 during a Karson & Kennedy Morning Show on MIX 104.1. She dispels common myths and answers questions about the swine flu virus and vaccine, like: How do you know if you have regular flu or H1N1? Can you [...] Related posts: Thimerosal, squalene and Guillain-Barré: Expert...
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Enforcement Of Illinois Parental Notification Law Blocked Again
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
On Wednesday, Cook County Circuit Judge Daniel Riley granted the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois' request for a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of an Illinois parental notification
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Lymington Times - Fluoride opponents 'misreading' tooth decay research, warns NHS
UK Against Fluoridation (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Fluoride opponents 'misreading' tooth decay research, warns NHS ANTI-FLUORIDE campaigners claiming the state of children's teeth is improving without the controversial chemical are misinterpreting the figures, according to NHS chiefs. Higher than average child, tooth decay was key to the South Central Strategic Health Authority (SHA) approving Southampton Primary Care Trust's proposals in February...
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The AMA and AARP drink the Pelosi Punch
Kenneth G. Davenport (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
President Obama made hay today after the American Medical Association (AMA) and the AARP came out in support of the $1.2 TRILLION health care boondoggle that Nancy Pelosi is steamrolling through the House this week. Why on earth would the AMA support such an attack on physician control of health care? The answer is because the AMA -- which represents less than 25% of all physicians -- has been bought...
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World Federation for Mental Health
wellbeingnewseditor | 18/07/2009
Wellbeing Newsline: Contributors > World Mental Health Day is celebrated on 10 October each year, or as close to that date as participating organisations can arrange their events. For 2009, the topic selected by the World Federation for Mental Health [WFMH] is ‘Mental Health in Primary Care: Enhancing Treatment and Promoting Mental Health’. The campaign materials have now been posted on the WFMH website,...
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National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
wellbeingnewseditor | 18/07/2009
Wellbeing Newsline: Contributors > The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence [NICE] has published new public health guidance on occupational therapy interventions and physical activity interventions to promote the mental wellbeing of older people in primary care and residential care. There are 9.7 million people aged 65 and older in the UK and by 2020 one–in–five UK citizens will be...