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Sen. Ron Wyden plans to unveil a bill to encourage team-based care in the program for older and disabled Americans. In the meantime, Medicare readies to deliver payment data for individual doctors on a "case-by-case" basis.
OHSU scientists have uncovered a method for quickly and efficiently mapping the genome of single cells within the body. Their findings, to be published Jan. 30 in the journal Nature Methods, clears the way for a significant advance in precision medicine, including cancer, and many other disease areas.
A new study from researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons suggests that prenatal exposure to flame retardants may increase the risk of reading problems.
Status epilepticus is a condition that is characterized by repeated seizures and is a medical emergency. Treatment is usually with a Benzodiazepine such as Diazepam or Lorazepam etc. There have been not any studies that look at the comparative benefit of drugs that could be prescribed for those who do not respond to the benzodiazepines. The study titled, "Randomized Trial of Three Anticonvulsant Medications for Status Epilepticus," was published in the latest issue of the journal New England Journal of Medicine.
"Today's New York Times' article exposes the short-comings of the ‘pharma deal' and how it gives with one hand while taking with the other. Rather than relying on ‘shell games' to lower prescription drug costs, policymakers should return this debate to the need for more competition in the form of real biogenerics reform.
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