Primary Care

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Gerry's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

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Joseph Cao: Health Care's LONE Republican Supporter Is Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

One Republican lawmaker out of 177 crossed party lines to support the health care reform legislation offered by Democrats. Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao, the Louisiana Republican who hails from a decidedly Democratic New Orleans district, voted yea on the final passage of legislation. He joined 219 Democrats to make the final margin 220 to 215 in favor of reform's passage. Cao was a major (and possibly...

• Joseph Cao, Health Care’s LONE Republican Supporter Is Rep - NHatky
• Joseph Cao: Health Care’s LONE Republican Supporter Is Rep. Anh Joseph Cao - US News & World Report

Adventures in Primary Care

Diabetes Mine (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

In the years since my diagnosis, I’ve often wondered why I needed a primary care physician. Since my health is all about controlling blood sugars and staving off D-complications these days, I literally have only seen our family doctor two or three times in the past six years. And then recently, we got a letter [...]

Anh "Joseph" Cao's Statement

FREEDOM EDEN (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Anh "Joseph" Cao explains his vote, the only Republican defection for the health care bill in the House. Cao Votes for “Life”; Achieves Legislation to Protect the Health of All Americans Tonight, Congressman Anh “Joseph” Cao (LA-2) voted in favor of the comprehensive health reform bill, H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. Of his vote, Cao said: “Tonight,...

Inside Medicine: System could communicate better, but patients have responsibility, too

Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Patients often leave the doctor's office with careful instructions about what to do if their illness doesn't get better – or if it gets worse. They are given instructions to "call or return to the office if …" These instructions often are difficult to follow and leave much to be interpreted by the patient. Sometimes they require difficult judgments. For example, is it worth going...

How the health care system is corrupting doctors

Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Originally published in HCPLive.com by Jeff Brown, MD I had the same reaction . . . shock at seeing an almost obscene claim about our profession in a national newspaper. But it got me thinking, which no doubt was its intended purpose. While we are thinking and feeling our way through this wide-ranging debate on health [...] Posted at KevinMD.com . Stay updated and subscribe , follow me on Twitter ,...

Medelita Celebrates National Nurse Practitioner Week

Latest press releases (Free subscription) | yesterday

Nurse practitioners provide 125,000 solutions to the primary care shortage

Urgent Care Awareness Week November 9-13

Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

WARRENVILLE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Urgent Care Centers around the country will be celebrating the second annual Urgent Care Awareness Week November 9-13th. The goal of Urgent Care Awareness Week is to help educate communities – individuals, families, groups, primary care physicians and emergency departments - about urgent care and how urgent care centers can help serve their healthcare needs,...

Bummer. Totally

politickybitch (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Well, yesterday's news was quite the bummer. Scary in fact. I was on a base yesterday, changing my primary care physician. Really glad that the shrink who snapped was on a different military base in a different state. I wouldn't be the first time I've heard of a shrink doing shit that was totally whack. Frankly, it makes me grateful that mine is professional and patient. It took years to find something...

Drive-by blogging

Stayin' Alive (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Another busy day (I had a meeting all morning that went an hour over time, three papers to write, two students needing recommendations, another student needing a paper critiqued, two proposals to write -- you get the idea). Anyway, a couple of links to commend to your attention. Sense about Science is one of those most excellent UK projects that the U.S. is just too good for. They do their best to...

White House Statement of Support of House HCR Bill

Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

The White House just issued this statement. The Administration strongly supports House passage of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, a bill that represents a critical milestone in the effort to reform our health care system. H.R. 3962 will provide needed insurance reforms for Americans with insurance, expand coverage for those who do not have insurance, lower costs for families...

• Obama States Strong Support For House Health Care Reform, Public Plan - The Huffington Post
• Obama administration officially (finally) supports House health insurance reform bill - AMERICAblog
• See the 5 articles on the same subject

Biovitrum Creates Rare-Disease Focused Spec Pharma with Swedish Orphan Buy

The IN VIVO Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Sweden’s Biovitrum on November 5 stumped up just over half a billion dollars for compatriot Swedish Orphan, buying itself a tidy additional SEK800 million ($115 million) in revenues, an extended commercial network and a couple of near-term launch opportunities. The move is yet another step in Biovitrum’s transformation into a specialty pharma company—coming just a week after it offloaded...

Care Quality Commission All NHS providers have...

John Rostill's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Care Quality Commission All NHS providers have to register under the Health and Social Care Act 2008. We need to apply for registration in January 2010. The Care Quality Commission is currently consulting on proposed fees for registration and it looks as though it will cost this Trust £60,000 per year. Politics! Andy Burnham, the Secretary of State for Health, is/has been in Washington (perhaps...

Geisinger and Lowe's Open Innovative Worksite Health Clinic

Newswise (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Geisinger's Careworks and Geisinger Health Plan announced the opening of a worksite primary care clinic in the Lowe's regional distribution center in Pittston.

In Washington, It's Always Opposite Day

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Unintended consequences seem to be the order of the day: In addition to Martin Feldstein's piece positing that health-care reform might actually incentivize people to drop their insurance until they get sick (thus shrinking the risk pool and increasing premiums), former Bush budget official James Capretta has a useful post explaining how the a Medicare payment system originally designed to encourage...

Access to Hospital Pharmaceutical Markets in the United Kingdom

aarkstore | 10/21/2009

Public hospitals represent a very important market segment for most biopharmaceutical companies in Europe. They are the often the only market for the increasing numbers of speciality drugs emerging from R&D, with many primary care products also unable to get established for maintenance therapy in the community without hospital recommendation first. Though the processes for achieving hospital usage...

Access to Hospital Pharmaceutical Markets in the United Kingdom

aarkstore | 09/17/2009

Public hospitals represent a very important market segment for most biopharmaceutical companies in Europe. They are the often the only market for the increasing numbers of speciality drugs emerging from R&D, with many primary care products also unable to get established for maintenance therapy in the community without hospital recommendation first. Though the processes for achieving hospital usage...

Welsh trust to open new community care centre in Baglan

wellbeingnewseditor | 09/12/2009

Wellbeing Newsline: Wales > Edited by Jane Hill: Abertawe Bro Morgannwg [ABM] University NHS Trust has recently announced that a Primary Care Resource Centre, which will house new GP accommodation, dental surgeries and a training centre for trainee dental students, will open shortly in the village of Baglan... Wellbeing Newsline > Magazine > Contributors > World > Europe > United Kingdom > England...