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AHIP: Medicare Advantage Cuts Harm Seniors
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — Health insurers are pushing back against planned cuts in funds flowing to Medicare Advantage plans by ...Advanced paternal age effects extend to several psychiatric disorders
The effect of advanced paternal age at childbearing on the psychiatric morbidity risk of their children extends to several psychiatric ...Further support for hippocampal volume as psychosis biomarker
Findings from the Bipolar-Schizophrenia Network on Intermediate Phenotypes provide further evidence that reduced hippocampal volume is a consistent feature of ...New corneal layer important for intraocular pressure maintenance
UK researchers have found that a newly discovered layer of the human eye is an important part of the structural ...CMS: More 'Meaningful Use' Exemptions Coming
ORLANDO (MedPage Today) — Some healthcare providers struggling to meet the second stage of the incentive program for electronic health ...Single GME Pathway for DOs and MDs
(MedPage Today) — A unified, single-system graduate medical education (GME) accreditation for allopathic and osteopathic physicians — MDs and DOs ...5 Tips on Meeting 'Meaningful Use' Standards
(MedPage Today) — MedPage Today spoke to several EHR experts during this week’s Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society annual ...Inflammation May Be PTSD Risk Factor (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) — High levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), an inflammation marker, were seen in soldiers who later developed post-traumatic ...Stroke Rounds: Are Oldest Patients Getting Too Many Drugs? (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) — Too many healthy people in their 80s and older are being treated with statins and antihypertensives for ...UNC researchers create safe and effective synthetic blood thinner
The effects of this new low-molecular-weight synthetic heparin can be quickly reversed unlike the effects of low-molecular-weight heparin currently in ...