American Association Of Retired Persons Thanks House For Protecting People In Medicaid, Urges Senate To Follow AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) thanked the cosponsors and supporters of the Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act of 2008, which is expected to pass the U.S. House of Representatives today. The bill prevents massive increases in costs for people in Medicaid by stopping harmful cuts proposed by the administration.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comFarm Bill Will Not Include Provision To Ban Physician Referrals To Specialty Hospitals Senate conferees in negotiations on the farm bill have withdrawn a proposal that the conference report include a provision under which physicians could not refer patients to specialty hospitals in which they have a financial interest amid opposition from House conferees and others, CongressDaily reports.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNews From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation, April 22, 2008 Two types of image are better than one for analyzing tumorsDoctors treating individuals with cancer would find a noninvasive method to determine the amount of oxygen in a tumor very useful, because low levels of oxygen in a tumor have been linked to a poor outcome.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNARAL Pro-Choice America Launches Website To Highlight McCain's Position On Abortion NARAL Pro-Choice America recently launched the website MeetTheRealMcCain.com to highlight presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain's (Ariz.) position on abortion rights, Newsweek reports.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNext-Generation Biofuels Are Needed To Achieve The Renewable Fuel Standard Rapid development of advanced biofuels is the key to reducing reliance on oil and global food prices, and ongoing advances in industrial biotechnology are helping achieve that goal.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comDopey Nurse Done For Drugs Theft, UK A nurse has been struck off the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) register for stealing
drugs for her own use. The hearing was held in London on 21st April and the independent panel of the NMC's Conduct and Competence Committee heard evidence that Lorraine Hill, 43 from Tittensor, Stoke-on-Trent had been regularly stealing sedatives (Midazolam and Diazemuls) from her employer.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comInd. Antiabortion Group, Judicial Candidates Seek Injunction To Rule Barring Judges From Several Issues The Indiana Right to Life Committee and two judicial candidates on Friday filed a federal lawsuit seeking a temporary injunction against an Indiana rule that prohibits judges from publicly discussing several issues, including abortion, the AP/WSBT reports.Marion, Ind., Superior Court Judge David Certo and Torrey Bauer -- a candidate for judge in Kosciusko County, Ind. -- filed the suit with IRLC.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comInconsistent NHS Offers Patchy Service To People With Diabetes, UK The Government will fail to deliver on standards it set itself five years ago if it doesn't refocus NHS efforts. This is the warning from Diabetes UK's report 'Five years on....Are we half way there?', launched today. In 2003, the National Service Framework (NSF) for Diabetes set out a vision for diabetes services in England to be delivered by 2013.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comDying Patients Given Greater Choice To Die At Home At No Extra Cost To The NHS, King's Fund Report Concludes, UK Significantly more people have been helped to choose to die in their own homes at no greater cost to the NHS as part of a Marie Curie-led pilot project, an independent King's Fund evaluation reveals.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comIncidence, Precursors And Psychiatric Sequelae Of Major Psychiatric Disorders Revealed By NIH Study A new study by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) presents results on the first onset of substance use disorders (i.e., alcohol and drug abuse and dependence) and major mood and anxiety disorders, based on Wave 2 of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC).This landmark survey is the first conducted in the U.S.
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