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Bruce Japsen
Bruce Japsen
    Emergency Doctors' Battle Against Accusations of Costing the System
    JAMA's 16th Editor and the Digital Age
    A New and Affordable Primary Care Model Emerges
    The Henrietta Lacks Foundation Gives Back
    How to Discuss Comparative Costs of Care With Your Patients
    The Growth of Milk Banks for American Mothers
    The Corporate Role in the Battle Against Obesity
    Review of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act
    The Impact of the Medical-Loss Ratio
    Prescriptions for OTC Drugs? New Rules for Flexible Spending Accounts
    An AMA Perspective on the Relative Value Scale Update Committee
    Reducing Errors at the 'Hand Off'
    A Look at an AMA Committee's Clout in Setting Medicare Prices
    The Cost of Diabetes to the Healthcare System
    High Fructose Corn Syrup and Diabetes: Is Sugar Any Better?
    The Urban Health Iniative: Re-Inventing Medical Care in Urban Areas
    Doctor Ratings Launch Amid Controversy, But are Here to Stay
    US Overhaul of Bioterrorism, Pandemic Flu Plans Could Speed Vaccine and Drug Production
    A More Resilient Health System in Katrina's Wake
    Health Reform and Myths About the Emergency Department
    Factory Efficiency Comes to Healthcare
    Health Courts and Mediation Alternatives
    Addressing the Psychiatrist Shortage
    New AMA President-Elect and an 'Edgier' Doctors' Group
    New Benefits for Children Under the Healthcare Reform Law
    Tomorrow's Pediatric Hospitals and Health Facilities
    The Certified Sales Rep
    The Path to FDA Approval for a Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine
    New Frontiers and Challenges for Alzheimer's Drugs
    Potentially Huge Savings When Patients Adhere to their Prescriptions
    Wellness Initiatives and the Physician
    President Obama's Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
    Is the Future of the Physician-Scientist in Danger?
    Can Social Networking Revolutionize Disease Management?
    The Battle Continues Against Pharmacological Cheating in Sports
    Rewriting the DSM
    Rise of Specialties & Healthcare Costs: Flexner's Impact?
    Debunking the Political Spin on Canadian Health Care
    New Federal Rules for Electronic Health Record Systems
    Health Care Business 101 & Then Some
    Pro Football Players and Brain Injury: New Guidelines
    Is Less More? Spending for Better Outcomes
    Plant Medicine: Algae as a Malaria Treatment
    Paying More For Worse Outcomes: Behavioral Economics & Healthcare
    Locating the Medical Home Within Healthcare Reform
    Locum Tenens: More Than a Temporary Career Choice
    Services to Encourage More Involved, Informed Patients
    Former Health Insurance Insider Turns Critic
    Some Straight Talk on Jargon
    Can an Insurance Exchange Aid in Coverage for All?
    What Biotech Companies Want in Generic Legislation
    Wireless Connectivity Makes Strides in Healthcare
    The Case for Less Expensive Biotech Drugs
    Evaluating the Hospital Report Card
    What We Can Learn From Intermountain Healthcare
    What Makes Geisinger Health System an Example
    Hospital System Has Head Start on Electronic Records
    The Movement to Ban Drug Industry Gift-Giving to Doctors
    Friends and Followers: Social Media and Healthcare
    In-Store Retail Clinics Expanding Services
    Continued Coverage: Voting Round-Up From the AMA
    Issues in Funding Pluripotent Stem Cell Research
    Pittsburgh Steelers Doc Talks Concussions, Preventive Health
    Understanding Why Drugs are More Dangerous for Some
    New Frontiers in Embryonic Stem Cell Research
    Single Payer Health Coverage's Fighting Chance
    Is There a Health Informatics Specialist in the House?
    Putting a Price on Quality When it Comes to Prescriptions
    Lost in Translation: A Tech Solution for the Multi-Lingual ED
    Federal Funding Controversies and Stem Cell Research
    Urban Hospital Closings: What Lies Ahead?
    E-Sampling and Online Marketing Coming to Doctors
    Delivering Asthma Drugs With Nanoparticles
    When Drug Companies Merge & the Effect on Your Practice
    Washington's Push For Evidence-Based Medicine
    Comparative Effectiveness and the Economic Stimulus Package
    Coming Soon: More Targeted Oral Asthma Therapies
    New 'eRisk Guidelines' for Online Communication
    Managing the Risks Associated With Telemedicine
    Breast Reconstruction With Help From Stem Cells
    Real Uses for Stem Cells On the Horizon
    Beyond the Embryonic Stem Cell Debate
    Stem Cell Treatments for Man's Best Friend and Man Himself
    What's in the Economic Stimulus Package for Healthcare?
    The Fortune 100's Wish List for Healthcare Reform
    New Technology Platforms to Detect Lymphedema
    Lymphedema: The Untold Story After Mastectomy
    New Tests for Respiratory Diseases and Superbugs
    New Diagnostics to Combat MRSA 'Superbug'
    A Way to Boost Cancer Cell Vulnerability to Chemotherapy
    Potential Future Treatments for Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)
    Saving Lives With CPR and AED
    Integrating Online Heart Disease Risk Assessments into Practice
    Combination Therapy to Manage Lipids
    Beyond LDL: New Treatment Options to Manage Lipids
    Researching Ways to Treat Aortic Stenosis
    The FAME Study, Fractional Flow Reserve and Reducing Heart Attacks
    Organized Labor Flourishes in Health Care Despite Industry Woes
    Obama's Labor Ally in the Healthcare Debate
    Finding the Innovator in Each of Us
    Embracing Innovation in Healthcare
    A National Consensus Is Forming on Perinatal Quality
    Coming Soon To a Hospital Near You: 17 Perinatal Quality Standards
    Borrowing from Airline and Space Industries to Reduce Medication Errors
    Reducing Medical Errors at the Bedside
    What is the Benefit of Market Research for Physicians?
    Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Becomes Targeted, Less Intrusive to Doctors
    Government Health Benefits and the Economy
    Rising Health Costs and the Impact on Consumers
    Mild Exercise and Reducing the Complications of Diabetes
    Lack of Support For a Mother's Postpartum Experience
    Who Wants a Career in Internal Medicine? Fewer Do
    The Changing Job Market for Physicians
    Over-The-Counter Options for Diabetics
    Your Patient's Drug Bill Keeps Growing: What to Tell Them?
    Medical Tourism: Weighing the Benefits and Worries
    Buying Into Telemedicine Payments to Doctors
    Pharma and Biotech Industries Pursue Treatments for Cardiac Inflammation
    Treatments for Cardiac Blood Vessel Inflammation In the Works
    After More Than 150 Years, Recent Progress in Atherosclerosis Treatment
    Quicker Diagnostic Testing of Cardiac Conditions in the ER
    The Lab in the Doctor's Hands: Point-of-Care Diagnostic Testing
    Targeted Anticoagulants Move From Lab to Patient Trials
    Moving Toward Synthetic Alternatives to Heparin
    Drug Innovations Coming From Outside Big Pharma
    Drugmakers' Foray into the Combination Pill Market
    Thoughts on New Pharma Marketing Guidelines
    An Insurance Industry Perspective on the Medical Home
    An Effort to Save 5 Million Lives
    Why Are There So Few Women in Neurosurgery?
    How Hospitals Can Implement Health Technology Assessment
    Assessing the Value of Medical Technology
    Social Networking in Health Care
    Can the Medical Community Reduce Underage Drinking?
    The Scope of the Underage Drinking Problem
    Patients and Doctors Benefit When the Physician and Administrator Become a Team
    Physician Incomes Outpaced by Inflation
    How to Deal With the Crushing Administrative Burdens of Your Practice
    Issues in Care of 'Masters Athletes'
    Older Athletes: Different Medical Needs Among Masters
    Addressing Concerns About Medical Tourism
    Similarities Between the Obama and McCain Health Plans
    Healthcare Reform: Focusing on Fundamentals
    A Physician's Guide to Medical Tourism
    A Treatment for Medical Claims: The First Health Insurer Report Card
    Doctors who Blog
    Health Blogs and the News That Makes Them
    Where Should Patients Seek Quality Consumer Medical Info?
    Alerts for Physician Prescribing Errors
    Hospitals Making Leaps in Quality Improvement
    Leading the Movement Toward Healthcare Ratings
    The Latest in the Ratings Craze: Ranking Prescription Drugs
    A Ratings Company's Stance on What Providers Need to Know
    A Telemedicine Consult in War-Torn Areas
    Osteopathic Medicine's Importance to the Healthcare System
    The Osteopath's Role in Encouraging Patients Toward a Medical Home
    The Osteopathic Physician's Role in Primary Care
    Docs in the Field Helping Drug Makers With Discoveries
    Finding & Developing Drugs for Rare Conditions
    Orphan Drug Act: 25 Years of Treating Rare Illnesses
    Stem Cell Therapy: A Major Regulatory Milestone
    Parsing the Debate Over Embryonic Stem Cells
    The Promise of Stem Cells Reaching Patients
    Academic Medicine's Needs to Satisfy Physician Demand
    Education, Research & NIH's Beleagured Budget
    Medical Education and the Health Reform Debate
    Counter Detailing: Advancing the Generic Drug Movement
    Improving the Safety of Generic Pharmaceuticals
    Are Cheaper Biotech Drugs Coming?
    Kaiser's Treatment of Doctor-Pharma Interactions
    Kaiser's Cure for Improving Care: Get Integrated
    Kaiser Permanente's Focus on Medical Records
    Sending out an SOS to Docs: Helping the Uninsured Gain Access to Medicines
    A public-private partnership for low cost medicines
    Are Physician-Owned Hospitals Under Attack?
    Facing New Business Challenges in Surgery Centers
    Hope: A Complement to Cancer Treatment
    Pathways to Customer-Friendly Cancer Care
    Quality Health Care at an Affordable Price? The Joint Commission Weighs In
    Setting Standards in the Health Reform Debate: the Joint Commission's Push for Care Quality
    Overuse, Underuse, and Misuse of Medical Care: The Joint Commission's Charge
    Improving Health Care Through Medical Simulation
    The Legislative Push for Patient Medical Homes
    Retail Clinics: the AAFP Weighs in on What Doctors Should Know
    Hotels, Cars and Now Doctors: How Ratings Have Reached the Medical Arena
    Managing Diabetes at the Pharmacy Counter
    The Benefits of Evidence-Based Health Plan Design
    Improving Medication Adherence in Elderly Patients
    Coming Soon: Shopping for Hospital Care Made Easy
    Hospitals Move Toward Connectivity via Health IT
    The Plan for Hospitals in Covering the Uninsured
    The Latest in Medical Care at Women's Hospitals
    Women's Care in Hospitals: More Than Obstetrics
    Employers Entice Patients With Gifts, Urging Them to Get Care
    Employers' New Drug Cost Control: Pay for Them!
    Stem cells to regenerate the heart
    Making Progress With Stem Cell Treatments
    The AMA's Push to Promote Healthy Lifestyles
    The AMA's Plan to Contain Medical Spending
    The AMA's Answer to Covering the Uninsured
    Boosting Practice Revenue in Tough Economic Times
    Moving Diagnostic Tests to the Point of Care
    Can Private Equity Help Improve Quality of Care?
    Managing Risk of Medical Errors and Trial Lawyers
    Tort Reform's Momentum and its Benefit to Doctors
    Malpractice Claims: The Impact of System Errors
    Physician Dedication Wanes, Yet Docs Press On: Staffing Challenges and Solutions
    Health Insurers' Plans to Cover the Uninsured
    Medical Device Reform and its Meaning to Doctors
    Could a Google-Like Solution Save Health Care?
    Finding Predispositions to Serious Drug Reactions
    A Rate War Among Malpractice Carriers is Coming
    Medical Malpractice Reform on the Move
    You, Too, Can Build a New Children's Hospital
    Hotel-like amenities at Children's Hospitals
    Healthcare Costs Soar, But Research Spending Lags
    Embryonic stem cell research chances
    A Crisis in Medical Research Funding
    The Joint Commission's Dr. Dennis O'Leary on patient safety
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