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• Medical association backs health system reform

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  HOUSTON (AP) -- The American Medical Association on Monday rebuffed dissident members and voted to stick with support for ongoing health reform efforts, while reiterating wariness over proposals that threaten doctors pocketbooks and independence....
  6 hours ago

• AMA CEJA 2009: Report Financial Relationships with Industry in Continuing Medical Education Referred Back to Committee for the Third Time by AMA House of Delegates

  
  Policy and Medicine — Authority: 429
  American Medical Association House of Delegates referred back to committee the Council on Judicial and Ethical Affairs report Financial Relationships with Industry in Continuing Medical Education referred to as CEJA 1.   This is the third time it has been sent back for more work by the AMA House of Delegates.   ...
  10 hours ago

• AMA May Withdraw Health Care Reform Endorsement

  
  Jeffrey A. Setaro — Authority: 423
  It looks like the American Medical Association’s Board of Trustees decision to endorse the House Health Care Reform bill is about to backfire. A significant chunk of the group is upset that the Trustee’s made the endorsement without the formal approval of the organization’s House of Delegates and is pushing a ...
  2 days ago

• Robert Reich: Healthcare Advice To Obama From An Unlikely Source

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 457
  Priorities, Priorities, Priorities Robert Reich , staunch partisan democrat, made these comments in his blog November 1 regarding the priorities of the Obama administration. Todays employment numbers make them that much more valid. "Obamas focus on health care rather than jobs, when the ...
  3 days ago

• Democrat leader: “Very close” to votes needed to pass health bill

  
  Political Fix — Authority: 626
  Hoyer WASHINGTON — House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said this morning that Democrats are closing in on the votes needed for the U.S. House to pass a bill with historic changes in health insurance. But lacking 218 votes, Hoyer said Democrats were continuing to persuade members in his party nervous ...
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• Health Care Financing Reform: (59) AMA Support for House Democratic Bill – For Now

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       In the comments to  Posting Number 55 of this series Quidpro and Dan S. debate what the effect of health care financing reform legislation will be on physicians and the willingness of persons to enter or stay in the medical profession.  We will learn more over the weekend as doctors debate whether to ...
  3 days ago

• The AMA and AARP drink the Pelosi Punch

  
  Kenneth G. Davenport — Authority: 466
  President Obama made hay today after the American Medical Association (AMA) and the AARP came out in support of the $1.2 TRILLION health care boondoggle that Nancy Pelosi is steamrolling through the House this week. Why on earth would the AMA support such an attack on physician control of health care? The answer is ...
  4 days ago

• Doctors, seniors endorse US health reforms

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, Nov 6 (DPA) President Barack Obama’s hopes of overhauling the US health care system were given a major boost Thursday as two advocacy groups representing doctors and seniors backed the reforms.The American Medical Association (AMA) and AARP both issued statements in support of health legislation ...
  4 days ago

• A Loyalty Smorgasbord in Advance of Saturday’s House Debate

  
  DOCTOR PUNDIT — Authority: 129
  Rep. Michelle Bachmann and her cadre of “ tea-baggers “, AARP, the AMA. What do these three disparate groups have in common? They have all made appearances in one way or another on the Hill to make their feelings known on pending healthcare legislation — which is now set to begin debate this weekend on the House ...
  4 days ago

• Thousands rally against Dems’ health insurance reforms

  
  Political Fix — Authority: 626
  Rep. Todd Akin greets Capitol protesters today. WASHINGTON — Chanting “Kill the Bill, Kill the Bill,” thousands of people are rallying this afternoon at the U.S. Capitol, protesting Democrats’ health-care legislation and blaming Washington for a host of perceived ills from high…
  4 days ago

• AMA Supports House Health Reforms, With a Catch

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  In a letter today to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the American Medical Association, the nation’s largest doctors lobby, announced its support for House Democrats’ proposed health reforms. But there’s a catch. Namely, AMA isn’t offering its outright support for the $894 billion proposal — the one ...
  4 days ago

• Arrgh! AMA Joins AARP in Support of Public Option

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 557
  It came as no surprise to learn this morning that the American Medical Association announced its support for concurrent passage of two health care reform bills in the U.S. House of Representatives.  Sadly, the once-respected organization of physicians now joins the ranks of the misguided AARP (See “Despite Early ...
  4 days ago

• AMA endorses House Democratic health care bill

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 671
  First AARP now the AMA. Would be nice if the final bill looked exactly like the House version, but thats just a pipe dream. WASHINGTON (CNN) - The American Medical Association endorsed the House Democratic leaderships health care reform bill Thursday. Its "not a perfect representation of our views," but is close ...
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• He Sad, She Sad

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  ?One of the saddest things about depression is the lingering myth that it is mostly a ?female disorder?.? So, reported The Star of Johannesburg. This lingering myth however, may be starting to fade as more and more health professionals begin to recognize the difference between depression in men and women. According to ...
  6 days ago

• AMA CEJA 2009: Council of Medical Specialty Societies Recommends that CEJA Join the Process for Change

  
  Policy and Medicine — Authority: 429
  The Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) issued their comments to the reference committee on constitution and bi-laws concerning the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA) of the American Medical Association (AMA) CEJA Report 1-I-09, “Financial Relationships with Industry in Continuing Medical ...
  6 days ago

• It’s Election Day: May I Take Your Order?

  
  Green Fork Blog — Authority: 509
  Millions of Americans will turn out to vote today, and millions more won’t. It’s pretty weird when you think about it. Not voting is like going to a restaurant with some friends, and then, when the waiter brings you the menu, deciding that you can’t be bothered to look at it, so you’re just going to let ...
  6 days ago

• Misrepresentations

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 138
  A week ago, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce was upset when The Yes Men, a group of pranksters and activists, held a fake press conference, claiming that the Chamber has reversed their opposition to climate change legislation. It’s true that the Chamber was misrepresented. But the real question should be, who does the ...
  1 week ago

• News, EBM, Library Resources: JAMA Evidence now available

  
  EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC — Authority: 112
  For those interested in learning strategies for practicing evidence-based medicine, check out the latest digital subscription from UCHC Library: JAMA Evidence Image Credit: http://www.jamaevidence.com/ - All rights reserved – Copyright 2009 . Produced by American Medical Association ...
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• Medication Adherence and Medicare’s Part D Prescription Drug Program

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 126
  If only it were an urban legend that senior citizens in the United States were cutting their physician-prescribed pills in half or ignoring their medications altogether in order to have enough money for food and utilities, but one doesn’t need academic studies to know that this kind of economically-forced ...
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• Depression In Teenagers & Children

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  DEPRESSION in Teenagers and ChildrenA while ago I did a blog about Adult depression. While doing the research on Adult depression, I learned quite a bit of information about depression in general, in addition to what I already knew because I suffer from this condition myself. What I didn’t know, however, is just how ...
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