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FDA Panel Splits on Expanded Jardiance Indication

Questions raised about key trial

301 People Charged With $900 Million in False Medicare Billings

Largest sweep since government fraud team began in 2007

AMA Blasts Medicare Part B Drug Price Plan

Votes to ask CMS to withdraw proposal

AMA Bucks NRA: Backs Waiting Periods, Background Checks

"Stop studying and let's do something"

Drop Ban on Gun Violence Research at CDC, Urges AMA

"We will not stand idly by and watch fellow Americans be slaughtered"

Unapproved Wound Care Products Flood the Market

Expert: Closer regulation could prevent many amputations

Owning a Dog May Help Veterans With PTSD

Small study finds adoption tied to lower depression, loneliness scores

How to Avoid Misdiagnosis

How a patient makes you feel may affect your diagnostic acumen

Opioid Crisis: Scrap Pain as 5th Vital Sign?

Groups call on JC and CMS to re-evaluate policies that could lead to opioid overprescribing

Medical Schools Boost Pain Management Education

In light of opioid epidemic, more schools focus on thoughtful prescribing

FDA Advisory Panel Unmoved by Gepirone Data

Recommends against novel antidepressant; FDA's fairness questioned

Is SAMHSA to Blame for a Broken Mental Health System?

Two members of Congress differ on how to fix a failing system

Patient Registries See Promise and Challenges Ahead

Physician-driven registries adapt to a changing health system

Diabetic Seniors Lobby for Medicare to Cover CGM Devices

Senate panel highlights glucose control issues facing Medicare patients with diabetes.

Purdue Pulls New OxyContin Application, and Questions Follow

FDA disavows previous requirement for study of abuse-deterrent formulation

House Committee Votes to Defund AHRQ

Attempt to restore funding fails on voice vote

Evolocumab Receives Mixed FDA Review

FDA sees strong efficacy of new injectable heart drug, but questions appropriateness of study population

FDA Okays Stiolto for COPD

Will include black-box warning about increased risk of asthma-related death.

FDA Panel Gets Earful on Homeopathy

Speakers ranged from harsh critics to vocal proponents.

SNUS: Is This a 'Safe' Tobacco Product?

Swedish smokeless tobacco maker wants FDA to soften warning label.

FDA Advisers Unimpressed by Nocdurna

Another setback for nocturia indication

FDA Launches Compounding Advisory Committee

The 14 committee members come from a variety of disciplines.

AstraZeneca's Move to Protect Nexium Market Ruled Legal

"Pay to delay" strategy upheld by court.

Calif. Docs Among Top Billers for Complex Visits

Three California doctors are among the top five nationally in billing for the most complex office visits, according to data released by Medicare and analyzed by ProPublica and KQED.

Top 5 Reasons Why Internists Are Sued

Not properly diagnosing a condition and nonmedical errors such as equipment failure accounted for more than half of the malpractice lawsuits against internists, a study found.

FDA Panel Says Yes to Inhaled Insulin Device

HYATTSVILLE, Md. -- An FDA advisory panel has voted in favor of approving a new inhaled insulin device, Afrezza, as a short-acting treatment to improve glycemic control in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

ICD-10 Follies: Watch Where You're Walking

Yes, there's a code for that. To mark the forthcoming move to the ICD-10 coding system, 51成人动漫 is spotlighting some of those thousands of new codes that might just be getting a bit too granular.

ICD-10 Follies: Struck by an Orca

Yes, there's a code for that. To mark the forthcoming move to the ICD-10 coding system, 51成人动漫 is spotlighting some of those thousands of new codes that might just be getting a bit too granular.

ICD-10 Follies: The Birds

Yes, there's a code for that. To mark the forthcoming move to the ICD-10 coding system, 51成人动漫 is spotlighting some of those thousands of new codes that might just be getting a bit too granular.

5 Problems With Mobile Health App Security

No federal agency has the power to properly regulate the fast-growing world of mobile health applications and telehealth systems, researchers noted while outlining several security risks and privacy threats.

Pay and Practice: Are Neurologists Primary Care Docs?

WASHINGTON -- Neurology isn't often mentioned in the same breath as primary care, but the American Academy of Neurology is again lobbying to gain that sobriquet -- this time to take advantage of a recent policy change that benefits primary care providers.

10 Questions: Rep. Phil Gingrey, MD (R-Ga.)

If you could change one thing about the healthcare system, what would it be? Eliminate Obamacare, says Rep. Phil Gingrey, MD (R-Ga.). That's his answer to just one of the 10 Questions the 51成人动漫 staff is asking leading clinicians, researchers, and leaders in their community to get their personal views on their chosen profession. In this series we share their uncensored responses.

AMA President Discusses SGR Repeal Efforts

Shortly after the American Medical Association's interim meeting adjourned, Ardis Hoven, MD, president of the American Medical Association, sat down for a one-on-one interview with 51成人动漫 to discuss the AMA's SGR repeal strategy.

Docs Need Info on 'Grace Period,' AMA Says

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- The American Medical Association wants health plans to notify doctors when patients haven't paid their premiums, a situation that could leave physicians on the hook for unpaid services.

SGR Repeal Still Gets AMA Support

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- The AMA's policymaking House of Delegates voted nearly unanimously to continue its support of congressional efforts to repeal Medicare's payment formula despite its opposition to a 10-year pay freeze that's part of a draft proposal.

Concierge Medicine Gains Ground

SAN DIEGO -- Concierge doctors are spreading the word that it's possible to operate a direct primary care practice, make a living, and avoid one of the biggest headaches for family medicine physicians -- dealing with health insurance companies.

ACP Hedges in Debate on Scope of Practice

The American College of Physicians took a nuanced position on the role advanced nurse practitioners play in clinical care teams in a position paper published Monday.

Congress Probing VA Bonuses to Doctors

WASHINGTON -- A congressional committee is using a recent report questioning performance bonuses for Department of Veterans Affairs physicians as reason to examine a range of pay-for-performance issues at the VA.

Medicare's DME Bidding Program Criticized

Despite complaints from multiple parties, Medicare's bidding program for durable medical equipment -- including diabetes supplies -- now includes suppliers to half of all program beneficiaries.

FDA Panel Vetoes New Tolvaptan Indication

SILVER SPRING, Md. -- An FDA advisory committee has declined to endorse an expanded indication for tolvaptan (Samsca) to treat autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.

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