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National Standards to Rank Physicians Planned

By Reed Abelson, Originally published: April 1, 2008
Doctors and health insurers called a tentative truce Tuesday in their long-standing dispute over how health plans rank physicians’ efforts in taking care of patients. The parties said on Tuesday that they would develop a national set of standards to measure physician performance.
While insurers increasingly have been measuring [...]

Is concierge medicine elitist?

Dr. Steven Knope, author of the new book Concierge Medicine, answers the controversial question, “Is concierge medicine elitist?”.
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Advantages of concierge medicine

Dr. Steven Knope, author of the new book Concierge Medicine, discusses the advantages of concierge medicine.
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What is concierge medicine?

Dr. Steven Knope, author of the new book Concierge Medicine, the first on the subject. Dr. Knope opened of the first concierge medicine practices in 2000.
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Boutique Doctor, Fox 11 News Segment

Fox11 Evening News featuring Concierge Medicine/LA
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Baxter to Proceed with Recall of Remaining Heparin Sodium Vial Products

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — DEERFIELD, Ill., February 28, 2008 – Baxter International Inc. announced today that the company is proceeding with the voluntary recall of all remaining lots and doses of its heparin sodium injection multi-dose, single-dose vials and HEP-LOCK heparin flush products. The company initially recalled nine lots of heparin sodium injection multi-dose [...]

Which Drug Websites Do Doctors Visit The Most?

The sites that feature diabetes meds top the list, with Merck’s Januvia garnering the No. 1 ranking and Takeda Pharmaceutical’s Actos finishing second, according to Manhattan Research, which says it conducted an online survey in this year’s second quarter of 1,681 docs practicing in the US.
Interestingly, the research firm says that more docs are visiting [...]

What You Ought To Know About Pharmaceutical Drugs

By Themedica on August 4, 2008 8:32 AM
The term pharmaceuticals is derived from “pharmaceuticus” (Latin) and “pharmaceutikos” (Greek)
and implies “to administer medicines.” In themodern usage of the word, pharmaceutical drugs are substances used to diagnose, prevent or treatment abnormal medical conditions and diseases, viz. pain, malaria, anxiety, etc.
Pharmaceuticals are classified in several [...]

Insure Me, Please: The Murky Politics of Mind-Body

By SARAH KERSHAW
Published: March 30, 2008
From Plato and Aristotle to Descartes, the great thinkers have for millennia argued over what is known in philosophy as the ”mind-body problem,” the relationship between spirit and flesh. Dualism tends to win the day: The mind and the body, while linked, are separate. They exist independently, perhaps mingling [...]

Is Medical Tourism For You?

Medical tourism has attracted a great deal of attention lately. If you are considering going abroad for surgery or other treatment then you may find this “Guide To Medical Tourism” of interest.
While a growing industry, there are many countries now offering competitively priced surgery, dentistry an more. There is now so much choice that it [...]

Is UK Nice Angling For Influence On Drug Pricing?

By Ed Silverman // August 26th, 2008 // 7:59 am
An unprecedented attack last week on pharmaceutical prices by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), chairman Michael Rawlins, signals a controversial new role for the UK health watchdog in the forthcoming overhaul of drugs pricing, PharmaTimes reports.
Rawlins’ comments were in part prompted [...]

Heath Insurance, and Discount Medical Plans

preferredHOSPITALS.com is a subscriber based, member advocate discount medical plan that delivers advertised benefits at the point of service - whether doctor, hospital, diagnostic facility, pharmacy, outpatient, emergency or urgent care center. Our mission is to bring the value of group purchasing to the millions of Americans who are uninsured, under-insured or otherwise exposed to [...]

Losing Ground: How the Loss of Adequate Health Insurance Is Burdening Working Families

By Sara R. Collins, Ph.D., Jennifer L. Kriss, Michelle M. Doty, Ph.D., and Sheila D. Rustgi
Four in 10 Americans had trouble paying for medical care in 2007, according to the Commonwealth Fund’s latest study on medical debt. The study, “Losing Ground: How the Loss of Adequate Health Insurance Is Burdening Working Families.”

The economic downturn is [...]

FDA Warns Novartis About Manufacturing Plant

The FDA sent a warning letter on August 12 to the drugmaker’s Sandoz generic unit about a failure to properly validate the manufacturing process for a copycat version of AstraZeneca’s Toprol XL, a blood pressure medication, which it makes a North Carolina plant.
“We question the continued distribution of this product until better process controls are [...]

Health 2.0 User-Generated Healthcare

How are Web 2.0 technologies like social networks, wikis and online communities changing the face of the health care industry? How are hospital systems and physician practices evolving as a result of rapid technological change? How can health plans evolve…

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New standards in the works for kid’s OTC cold meds (The Star-Ledger)

The move by the FDA comes in response to rising concerns that the products are ineffective and could be unsafe, The Washington Post reports.
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Mind your meds (Denver Post)

Reading the fine print on prescription bottles is important, but almost half the participants in one study misunderstood drug warning labels, and most ignored the directions altogether.

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Managing meds (BizJournals)

Erie County Medical Center has completed installation of a $1.2 million electronic system designed to reduce medication dispensing errors.

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Comparing Biden’s health reform plan to Obama’s

By Craig Stoltz It’s the time in the political season to make way too much of the impact a vice president can have on the presidential contest. So I hope you don’t mind if I extend that amusing parlor sport…

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In Online Health Content We Trust?

By Fard Johnmar Late last week, Susannah Fox of the Pew Internet & American Life project announced that the nonprofit had updated its statistics on the number of adult Americans using the Internet. Currently, 73 percent are Web users. Of…

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