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Sen. Collins deals likely fatal blow to GOP’s health bill
Could this latest defeat push lawmakers toward bipartisan action on health care reform?
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Battling physician burnout delivers monetary benefits for health care organizations
Organizations can combat physician burnout, and the effort is worthwhile, as well as morally and ethically important.
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Sharing drug paraphernalia alone didn’t transmit HCV
Should shared drug preparation paraphernalia be a primary focus of harm-reduction and education?
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With inpatient flu shots, providers’ attitude problem may outweigh parents’
Providers need to learn more about barriers to inpatient influenza vaccination.
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Residents getting unprecedented attention from employers
Survey shows that “the search for newly trained physicians is on the verge of becoming a feeding frenzy.”
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Docs, insurers condemn latest ‘repeal and replace’ plan
The GOP faces a tough road for passing the Graham-Cassidy proposal.
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When is it really recurrent strep throat?
Know the right first question to ask and pay careful attention to history and clinical presentation of recurrent strep pharyngitis.
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Postsurgical antibiotics cut infection in obese women after C-section
But experts say this may not be ready for implementation on a wide scale.
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CMS alerts physicians of payment reductions for PQRS noncompliance
Some doctors will see their payments reduced by 2%.
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FDA approves single-dose, oral bacterial vaginosis treatment
Secnidazole is a next-generation 5-nitroimidazole antibiotic.
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Hepatitis C falls as barrier to heart transplantation
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS – Transplant recipients, whether naive or previously exposed to HCV, eradicated the virus with direct-acting antiviral therapy....