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Surgeon general pick may boost primary care focus
And the nominee for surgeon general is...Regina Benjamin, a primary-care physician who's been part of a center studying healthcare disparities at the National Institutes of Health. She comes with... Read more...
Extending Medicare drug payments pays
Extending prescription coverage for Medicare enrollees sounds like an expensive boondoggle to some. However, a new study suggests that the extra cost of such coverage was substantially offset on... Read more...
Academic medical associations offer conflict-of-interest proposal
In the wake of several recent scandals over academics who failed to disclose industry relationships, two key academic medical associations have come together to offer suggestions on how to regulate... Read more...
Comparative effectiveness research becomes battleground
In theory, comparative effectiveness research is a completely neutral idea. If you want to give patients the best, most cost-effective care, simply do good research, find out which treatments work... Read more...
Cracking down on conflicts of interest
This was a watershed year for the practice of cozying up to doctors with everything from pens to exotic trips and fat consulting contracts. During 2008, not only did many academic institutions ban... Read more...
NIH faces scrutiny for weak oversight of conflicts of interest
Here at FierceHealthcare, we've often received news of conflicts of interest that a researcher had and didn't disclose. In theory, however, there are some checks and balances that should help prevent... Read more...
Study: Family medicine woefully underrepresented at NIH
A new study has found that family physicians and departments of family medicine are woefully underrepresented in grants from the NIH. Researchers from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation analyzed data... Read more...
NIH offers free care to patients with rare illnesses
The NIH has launched a new pilot program designed to find patients with rare, hard-to-detect diseases and treat them--for free. The new Undiagnosed Disease Program is far from a panacea for such... Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Healthcare orgs still hiring despite downturn; Data breach affects U.S. Representative; and much more...
> Despite other blows to the U.S. economy, it looks like healthcare organizations are still hiring. Read more...
ALSO NOTED: TN Medicaid to test e-prescribing program; NIH alerts patients of stolen personal information; and much more...
> Tennessee's Medicaid program and one of its Medicaid managed care providers have announced that they plan to kick off an e-prescribing pilot program in 13 of the state's rural counties. Read more...
