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WASHINGTON, May 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New legislation introduced today by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), the Medicare Patient Empowerment Act (S. 1042), will provide Medicare patients with greater choice, allowing them to see the physicians they want and need to see. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081209/AMALOGO) "The Medicare Patient Empowerment Act helps fulfill the promise of Medicare for seniors in Alaska and across the country by creating a new payment option...

Generally were reluctant to fund it differentlyCommercial funding of continuing medical education (CME) and the potential for bias appear to concern many health care practitioners and researchers, but many reported being unwilling to pay higher fees to eliminate or offset commercial funding sources, according to a report in the May 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.Although over the past several years, the role of pharmaceutical and medical device...

TUCSON, Ariz., May 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On April 26, the U.S. Supreme Court heard a case (Sorrell v. IMS Health) concerning the sale of patients' prescription records by data mining companies. In challenging a Vermont statute that limits the sale of data for marketing purposes, IMS Health argues that there is a First Amendment right to harvest and sell medical records data. With all the "privacy notices" they receive, and frequent references to "HIPAA" (the Heath Insurance...

NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Millennium Brokerage Group ("MBG") today announced its participation in the launch of AMA Insurance Agency's Physicians Financial Partners program. AMA Insurance Agency, Inc. (AMAIA), a subsidiary of the American Medical Association, selected MBG as its strategic partner in the development of the Physicians Financial Partners program. This unique program provides an internet-based sales and management platform that offers physicians access to...

NIH-funded researchers gain ground in treatmentA specific form of vitamin E improved the most severe form of fatty liver disease in some children, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. Results appear in the April 27 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. A previous study found vitamin E effective in some adults with the disease.Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic liver disease among U.S. children. NAFLD ranges in...

An increasing number of heart attack victims survive longer when doctors follow guidelines for treating patients after cardiac arrest, according to a new study from Sweden published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), reports Reuters Health."Things that we test in clinical trials do work in real life (and) make huge impacts on mortality," said Dr. Debabrata Mukherjee, a cardiologist at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso who wrote a commentary...

The Montreal Heart Institute participates to an initial experiment with personalized antiplatelet therapyAn international consortium of scientists, including major contributions from the Montreal Heart Institute, demonstrates that the "one-size fits all" strategy of uniformly doubling the dose of an antiplatelet drug, clopidogrel, for patients with high on-treatment platelet reactivity does not reduce the incidence on death, heart attacks and stent thrombosis after percutaneous...

Replacing high fructose corn syrup with sugar makes no nutritional difference WASHINGTON, April 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The April 1 announcement by Fairfax County Public Schools for the return of chocolate milk to elementary schools may mislead parents and students about sweeteners. The decision to once again offer chocolate milk to students is commendable. However, it is unfortunate that the district chose to deprive students of chocolate milk for eight months in order to...

CHICAGO, April 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Easter Seals, the American Medical Association (AMA) and LogistiCare today announced they are working together to conduct a study for the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) on the relationship between transportation access and health and wellness. The study findings are expected to be announced in late 2011. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110401/MM76153LOGO) "Approximately 2.6 million adults in the U.S. don't get the health...

Study provides snapshot of the economic impact of office-based physicians studied at state level CHICAGO, March 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Washington State Medical Association (WSMA) announced that a new report released by the American Medical Association (AMA) shows that office-based physicians play a vital role in Washington's economy by supporting jobs, purchasing goods and services and generating tax revenue. In 2009, office-based physicians in Washington state contributed...