Medicare pay favors specialists.
Incomes vary widely in the four medical specialties--geriatrics, hematology-oncology, nephrology, and rheumatology--that derive more than half of their revenues from government-run health insurance programs, a study showed. For example, geriatricians' incomes averaged $165,000 annually, compared with $504,000 for hematologists, even though the specialties require a similar amount of training,...

Discharge planning in acute care hospitals in Israel: services planned and levels of implementation and adequacy.
Discharge from a hospital does not necessarily indicate a return to health, but, rather, a move from acute care to alternate, lower intensity forms of care. In many countries, efforts to reduce health costs have led to shortened hospital stays and a deliberate shift toward community care. Although there...

Collins: UMass poised for `life science moment'; New med school chief sees `incredible future'.
Byline: John J. Monahan BOSTON - Dr. Michael F. Collins, named yesterday as the new chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, is now charged with leading the school along a new path he helped chart as interim chancellor to expand life science research, refocus medical...

Confronting physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia: my father's death.
Duty: An act ... required of one by position, social custom, law, or religion.... Moral obligation. --American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed. My father's death forced me to rethink all I had written over two decades opposing legalization of physician-assisted suicide and...

Sermo-Publicis Selling Solutions Survey: Doctors Demand More Value from Sales Reps.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-30 September 2008-Sermo-Publicis Selling Solutions Survey: Doctors Demand More Value from Sales Reps(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com In today's changing marketplace, pharmaceutical sales representatives need to better understand the medical practices they serve. Moreover, if they want increased "face time" with physicians, they must...

Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals Sets Date to Release Second Quarter Financial Results.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-3 August 2008-Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals Sets Date to Release Second Quarter Financial Results(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals announced that it will release its second quarter 2008 financial results before the opening of the stock market and will hold a conference call...

Primary care for older patients will get scarcer.
CRYSTAL CITY, VA. -- The shortage of primary care physicians schooled in caring for elderly patients will continue to worsen, according to an analysis of federal physician data. "Our nation is facing a growing shortage of physicians for the care of adults," Dr. Jack Colwill said at...

Medicare pay favors specialists.
Incomes vary widely among the four medical specialties--geriatrics, hematology-oncology, nephrology, and rheumatology--that derive more than half of their revenues from government-run health insurance programs, a study showed. For example, geriatricians' incomes averaged $165,000 annually, versus $504,000 for hematologists, even though the two specialties require a similar amount of training....

Fees aim to boost medical homes.
Providing a patient-centered medical home is about to start paying dividends for Dr. James C. Leyhane and his patients. Imagine being able to spend all the time you need to with a middle-aged patient who is over-weight and smokes. A sore throat may have prompted the visit,...

EarlySense to Present at the European Respiratory Society in Berlin.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-1 October 2008-EarlySense to Present at the European Respiratory Society in Berlin(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com EarlySense, developer of continuous supervision systems for hospital and home use, announced that the results of a clinical study of the EverOn system conducted at the Sourasky Medical...