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Medicare modernization act did not change chemotherapy as feared
10-08-2007 · EurekAlert!Cancer patients receiving chemotherapy have not noticed a restriction in their access to treatment following the enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, despite the act's significant reduction in government reimbursement to oncologists, according to a new study led by researchers in the Duke Clinical Research Institute.
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- Patients perceived cancer care unaffected by lower Medicare reimbursements
10-08-2007 · EurekAlert!
Patients perceive no significant change in the quality of care for cancer since the United States' government passed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003.
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- America may learn from Quebec's prescription drug plan
09-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
A new study published in the Milbank Quarterly finds a number of similarities between Canadian drug coverage and that of the United States, despite their publicized differences. Looking at Quebec's Prescription Drug Insurance Program and the United States' Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act (MMA), the study suggests that the older Canadian plan may provide valuable insights for American decisionmakers.
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- Support for Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act given to House leaders by ACP
07-25-2007 · EurekAlert!
In a letter to leaders of the US House of Representatives Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce committees, the president of the American College of Physicians today expressed support for the Children's Health and Medicare Preotection Act of 2007 (H.R. 3162). Representing 124,000 internal medicine physicians and medical student members, ACP is the largest medical specialty society in the United States.
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- Scientists issue Bali climate change warning
12-06-2007 · EurekAlert!
More than 200 leading climate scientists have today warned the United Nations Climate Conference of the need to act immediately to cut greenhouse gas emissions, with a window of only 10-15 years for global emissions to peak and decline, and a goal of at least a 50 percent reduction by 2050.
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- Infectious disease doctors urge Congress to cover home infusion therapy for Medicare beneficiaries
06-06-2007 · EurekAlert!
The Infectious Diseases Society of America is urging Congress to support the Medicare Home Infusion Therapy Coverage Act of 2007, bipartisan legislation introduced yesterday by Reps. Eliot Engel (D-NY), Kay Granger (R-TX), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Charles Pickering (R-MS), Randy Kuhl (R-NY), and John Tierney (D-MA). The long-awaited bill would extend coverage for home infusion services to Medicare beneficiaries -- a benefit enjoyed by most patients in the private sector.
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- Wildfire drives carbon levels in northern forests
10-31-2007 · EurekAlert!
Far removed from streams of gas-thirsty cars and pollution-belching factories lies another key player in global climate change. Circling the northern hemisphere, the conifer-dominated boreal forests -- one of the largest ecosystems on earth -- act as a vast natural regulator of atmospheric carbon levels.
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- Immediate action needed to save corals from climate change
12-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
The journal Science has published a paper today that is the most comprehensive review to date of the effects rising ocean temperatures are having on the world’s coral reefs. "The Carbon Crisis: Coral Reefs under Rapid Climate Change and Ocean Acidification," co-authored by 17 marine scientists from seven different countries, reveals that most coral reefs will not survive the drastic increases in global temperatures and atmospheric CO2 unless governments act immediately to combat current trends.
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- Can thinking about shopping change the route you take?
10-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
Prior research has shown that exposure to business-related objects makes people act more competitively, even though they do not realize it. A fascinating new study by researchers at Stanford extends this research by investigating how different consumers are affected by the same stimuli. The study reveals significant differences between the way men and women subconsciously react after exposure to certain objects.
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- Class of medications may offer alternative option for treating type 2 diabetes
07-10-2007 · EurekAlert!
A review of previous studies indicates that use of a class of medications known as "incretin-based therapy," which act via certain pathways that affect glucose metabolism may provide modest effectiveness and favorable weight change outcomes for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and may represent an alternative to other hypoglycemic therapies, according to an article in the July 11 issue of JAMA.
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- Study finds drug spending caps cause some seniors to quit taking key medicines
09-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
Many seniors quit taking drugs for chronic illnesses such as diabetes and high blood pressure when they exceed their drug plan's yearly spending limits, according to a RAND Corp. study. The report, which examines the behavior of seniors enrolled in a private health plan, provides insight into how seniors may act under provisions of Medicare's new drug benefit plan that will leave about one-third of enrollees without drug coverage for some part of each benefit year.
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