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Physicians have until June 30 to report on the use of electronic prescribing under Medicare Part B or apply for a hardship exemption. Dr. Mary Newman says e-prescribing is better and safer than relying on paper prescriptions.

FDA Wrestles With Drug Shortages

Drug shortages in the United States have led to delayed treatments, use of less-effective alternatives, and a gray market that provides drugs with sometimes murky origins at inflated prices.

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Federal Funds Launch First Alzheimer's Prevention Study - 05/15/12

BETHESDA, MD. – The first-ever primary prevention trial for Alzheimer’s disease will investigate whether immunotherapy... »

Problematic Physician Behavior Can Be Cured

Health Officials to Docs: Help Save ACA

Is Marijuana Medicinal?

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Check out our comprehensive coverage of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting.

American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology (AAAAI) Annual Meeting

Airborne Pollens and Asthma-Related ED Visits Coincide

GERD Associated With Worse Infant Respiratory Disease

International Stroke Conference 2012

Elderly Stroke Patients Have High Atrial Fibrillation Prevalence

Embolectomy May Help Despite Infarct Size

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What Matters

The Weight of Sleep Deprivation

Americans are very tired. The National Sleep Foundation recommends that adults sleep 7 to 9 hours per day, yet the... »

Observation Unit

Effective Use of Mortality Data

Health Affairs has published a study that demonstrates little impact of Medicare’s mortality data on improving outcomes. No... »

Blognosis

Influenza Toys with the Human Race

The current U.S. influenza seasonal epidemic, the mildest in years, is in its death throes, based on infection trends over... »

The Effective Physician

Type 2 Diabetes Treatment 2012

Background

Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States and affects nearly 26 million Americans,... »

Law & Medicine

Defensive Medicine

Question: A patient in his 30s presented to Dr. C with atypical substernal chest pain. There was no family history of heart... »

Genetics in Your Practice

Oncologic Darwinism

When I was in medical school in the early 1990s, the basic model for cancer was that a single cell harboring a mutation,... »

World Wide Med

World Wide Med: Saving Spines in the Congo

A 2008 trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo opened Dr. Richard Kaul’s eyes to a serious, yet underrecognized... »

Implementing Health Reform

Implementing Health Reform: Physician Compare

Starting next year, Medicare will begin publicly displaying group-level physician performance data. The data will come from... »

EHR Report

Tricks to Optimize Your EHR

Okay, we admit it – even we are becoming a bit jaded with all of the attention being paid to meaningful use. So we thought... »

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Specialty Focus

May 11 - 21 Departs Civitavecchia,	Rheumatology and Orthopaedics
May 11 - 21 Departs Civitavecchia,	Rheumatology and Orthopaedics
May 12 - 21 Departs Oslo,	Pain Management/Neurology/Compliance
May 15 - 18 Paris,	European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI): EuroPCR
May 16 - 19 Melbourne,	World Federation for NeuroRehabilitation (WFNR): 7th World Congress of Neurorehabilitation (WCNR2012)
May 16 - 19 Denver, CO	Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (POSNA): Annual Meeting
May 16 - 19 Honolulu, HI	American Pain Society (APS): Annual Scientific Meeting
May 16 - 20 Marrakesh,	8th Metabolic Syndrome, type II Diabetes and Atherosclerosis Congress
May 16 - 19 Istanbul,	European Society for Pediatric Dermatology (ESPD): 11th Congress
May 16 - 19 Istanbul,	European Society for Pediatric Dermatology (ESPD): 11th Congress