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Reform Update: ACA foes, supporters trade volleys
By Jessica Zigmond | May 17, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Democrats and Republicans played another game of political tennis this week when House Republicans served up another vote to fully repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Democrats returned a litany of reasons why the 2010 law is good for Americans.
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Docs, NPs at odds on pay issues, roles: survey
By Andis Robeznieks | May 16, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Physicians and nurse practitioners agree that NPs should practice “to the full extent of their license.” But the two groups strongly disagree on whether doctors and nurse practitioners should receive equal pay for providing the same services and on whether NPs can lead a...
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Stem cells recovered from cloned human embryos
By Associated Press | May 16, 2013
Scientists have finally recovered stem cells from cloned human embryos, a long-standing goal that could lead to new treatments for such illnesses as Parkinson's disease and diabetes.
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Reform Update: Obama touts reform law's benefits for women
By Jessica Zigmond | May 10, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Just ahead of Mother's Day, President Barack Obama on Friday spoke from the White House about the ways his signature healthcare law will help millions of American women and their families.
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Debate rages after FDA ruling on morning-after pill
By Beth J. Harpaz / Associated Press | May 04, 2013
Allison Guarino understands the controversy over new rules allowing 15-year-olds to buy the morning-after pill without a prescription. But as someone who teaches pregnancy prevention to ninth-graders in Boston, she thinks lowering the age will "help the girls who need the help the most."
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Florida legislature ends session without Medicaid expansion
By Brendan Farrington / Associated Press | May 04, 2013
Florida lawmakers ended their 60-day session Friday, waiting until the final hour to pass a $74.5 billion budget and then leaving town without passing a bill to extend healthcare coverage to 1.1 million Floridians.
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Med schools on pace with enrollment target: AAMC
By Rachel Landen | May 03, 2013
As the U.S. faces a shortage of physicians—potentially more than 90,000 by 2020—medical schools are seeking to counteract the deficiency with higher enrollments.
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The changing face of medical school admissions
By New York Times | May 03, 2013
As the country's universities and courts are struggling once again to define diversity and admissions policies, two perspective pieces in the New England Journal of Medicine reveal that admissions policies have been quietly but radically changing in a handful of medical schools. And those changes...
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Reform Update: Consumer outreach, education on backburner in exchange planning
By Jonathan Block | May 02, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
As states and the federal government work feverishly toward having health insurance exchanges ready for enrollment by Oct. 1, much of the discussion has focused on technology readiness, guidance from the CMS and competition from insurers. But one crucial element not brought up as often but still...
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Reform Update: Brookings effort aims to slow spending on Medicare
By Melanie Evans | May 01, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
For a moment, set aside the debate over what happened since the recession to slow health spending to record lows. The slowdown held health spending to roughly the same rate of growth as the economy for two consecutive years after the recession, the most recent data show.
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