ALSO NOTED: Provider groups ask CMS to delay NPI enforcement, again; Zyrtec marketers try something new; and much more...

> Several groups have asked CMS to delay the implementation of the National Provider Identification number, arguing that no one involved is really ready to move ahead. FierceHealthFinance [1]

> To market over-the-counter Zyrtec, drug marketers have turned to a very old ad medium--fliers posted on telephone poles. FiercePharma [2]

> Researchers at Johns Hopkins have come up with a cheaper, easier-to-deliver vaccine for NPV, strains of which are responsible for most cervical cancer cases. FierceVaccines [3]

> Dallas nurses are mulling over whether they should join a labor union, the California Nurses Association. If they do it would be the first nurses union in the state since the 1970s. Article [4]

And Finally...  This sounds like something out of a cheap horror flick, but it really happened. Article [5]