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Resident work hour restrictions may be costly for teaching hospitals

An analysis based on a computer model suggests that recent educational mandates that resident physicians work fewer hours may cost teaching hospitals hundreds of thousands of dollars'or more, if they replace surgical residents with other clinicians, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Surgery.

17 Apr 2007

Komen and AACR address cancer disparities

Uniting the world's oldest and largest scientific organization dedicated to cancer research with the world's largest network of cancer survivors and activists, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and Susan G.

17 Apr 2007

AHIP develops new initiatives to improve the quality and safety of health care

The proposal includes reforms to the FDA and a plan for comparing the effectiveness of prescription drugs, devices and new medical technologies.

17 Apr 2007

Health disparities in access to healthcare

Minority individuals are much more likely to develop and die from cancer than the general U.S. population.

16 Apr 2007

Should primary care doctors assess safety of older drivers?

In an editorial published in the April issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, Malaz Boustani, M.D., M.P.H., of the Indiana University Center for Aging Research and the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. writes that assessing the safety of older drivers is not a responsibility that should reside with the primary care physician.

16 Apr 2007

British look at detaining dangerous mental patients

Government ministers in Britain are in the midst of discussing controversial plans to allow mentally ill people to be detained against their will, even if they have not committed a crime.

16 Apr 2007

Health insurers in California need to justify rates

Consumers enduring triple-digit health insurance increases will join Assemblyman Dave Jones (D-Sacramento) and consumer advocates to support Jones' legislation (AB 1554) requiring HMOs and health insurers to justify their rates and get approval for increases.

15 Apr 2007

Hospital-based performance measures for quality of care for breast and colorectal cancer

In a move more than two years in the making, a National Quality Forum (NQF) endorsement became effective today of the first nationally recognized hospital-based performance measures for quality of care for breast and colorectal cancer.

15 Apr 2007

Increase in shift-work among junior doctors could have a detrimental effect on the NHS

Changes in working practice and the introduction of the EWTD have led to a much needed reduction in the number of hours junior doctors work. However it has also meant an increase in shift-working. Most full shift rotas require junior doctors to work seven consecutive, 13 hour night shifts, a practice the Royal College of Physicians recently recommended should be avoided.

15 Apr 2007

Health care reconsidered: Options for change

The Hamilton Project, an initiative at the Brookings Institution, hosted a forum, "Health Care Reconsidered: Options for Change," today at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. At the event, policy papers on reforming Medicare Part "D" (including closing the "donut hole" gap in prescription drug coverage), improving preventive care and promoting greater affordability through progressive cost-sharing were released by The Hamilton Project.

11 Apr 2007

Fostering the advancement of women and minority physicians in academic medicine

Although men and women attend medical school in equal numbers, for most women who go on to academic medicine, that's where the numbers stop adding up.

11 Apr 2007

Lack of control of work hours and schedule often leads to physician burnout

A new national survey of physicians has found that a lack of control of their work hours and schedule often leads to burnout, while many other difficult issues that physicians face do not seem to diminish their career satisfaction.

11 Apr 2007

Houston physicians engage in general acute-care hospital ownership

HealthLeaders-InterStudy, a provider of managed care industry intelligence, reports hordes of area physicians are venturing enthusiastically into ownership of general acute-care hospitals with the vow to treat a full range of patients.

11 Apr 2007

More choice for patients does not mean better healthcare

UNISON is critical of plans to extend patient choice, pointing out that more does not mean better.

11 Apr 2007

New rules ban sexual relationships between doctors and patients

As part of a comprehensive package of reforms in Britain, healthcare professionals, including doctors, nurses and midwives, will be warned against forming sexual relationships not only with patients but also with former patients.

11 Apr 2007

Physician shortage in North America

Changes in emigration patterns of Canadian-educated physicians are not believed to have had a profound effect on the Canadian physician workforce; however, Phillips and colleagues report that, in 2006, 1 in 12 Canadian-educated physicians were practising in the US.

10 Apr 2007

Newmarket, Ontario to establish world-class cancer centre

Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) will share its latest knowledge, research in cancer care, and expertise to assist Southlake Regional Health Centre (Southlake) in establishing a world-class cancer centre through a formal affiliation between a world leader in cancer care and the newly established cancer program in the Newmarket-based hospital.

5 Apr 2007

Hypnotism as a potential component of care

Hypnotism has expanded its realm from magic shows to health care.

5 Apr 2007

Call to keep NHS in Wales public

Welsh doctors have renewed calls on all political parties to keep the NHS Wales a public service.

5 Apr 2007

Safeguarding patient services, maintaining cost-effectivenes

GPs struggling to balance their books in the face of rising expenses and a zero percent increase in funding will have to take tough, business-minded decisions to minimise the effect on both their practices and patient services, advises the BMA's General Practitioners Committee (GPC).

5 Apr 2007