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The Path to a Relationship Between Industry and CME
https://reachmd.com/programs/lifelong-learning/the-path-to-a-relationship-between-industry-and-cme/6101/Against a background of controversy over conflicts of interest, the relationship between continuing medical education and commercial supporters is evolving. Dr. Allen Lichter, chief executive officer of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), joins host Lawrence Sherman to discuss how bestEmbracing Value-Based Insurance Design
https://reachmd.com/programs/optimizing-outcomes-in-chronic-care/embracing-value-based-insurance-design/5521/Value-based insurance design (or VBID) can do more than simply reduce out-of-pocket patient costs. By lowering the amount patients pay for the most effective treatments, all healthcare stakeholders benefit. What are the principles of VBID? How can value-based insurance be designed to both improve thPassport to Health: Issues in Medical Tourism
https://reachmd.com/programs/focus-on-global-medicine/passport-to-health-issues-in-medical-tourism/4841/What is medical tourism, and what does it mean for your patients? How should we react when our patients tell us they plan to leave the country for a procedure? Host Dr. Maurice Pickard takes a closer look at the medical tourism industry and its effects on physicians and patients with Renee-Marie SteInching Closer to Healthcare Reform: Driving Down Costs
https://reachmd.com/programs/second-opinion-live/inching-closer-to-healthcare-reform-driving-down-costs/4554/News out of Washington, DC, last week has many sectors of health care abuzz about the possibility of meaningful reforms to our system: President Barack Obama announced the initial framework of a commitment from six of the major players in the healthcare industry to cut nearly two trillion dollars inPromising Peanut Immunotherapy Studies
https://reachmd.com/programs/focus-on-nutrition-and-nutrition-science/promising-peanut-immunotherapy-studies/4503/Peanut allergy is an increasing public health concern in the United States. Children with peanut allergy may remain allergic for life, unlike children with more often outgrown allergies to milk or egg. Dr. Wesley Burks, professor and chief of the division of pediatric allergy and immunology at DukeThe Evidence Behind Our Clinical Uses of IVIG
https://reachmd.com/programs/focus-on-pharmacy/the-evidence-behind-our-clinical-uses-of-ivig/4363/Culled from human plasma, intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is an expensive and limited resource. These constraints underscore the importance of ensuring that our clinical uses of IVIG are in line with the applications for which we have best demonstrated its efficacy. Yet IVIG has only amassed a shoInherited Susceptibility to Common Cancers
https://reachmd.com/programs/focus-on-cancer/inherited-susceptibility-to-common-cancers/4262/What has genetic research taught us about the inheritance of common cancers? And how can we use this knowledge to help patients? Dr. William Foulkes, director of the cancer genetics program at McGill University in Canada, talks with host Dr. Bruce Bloom about the questions raised and the answers revLethal Injection as Capital Punishment: The Issues
https://reachmd.com/programs/focus-on-pharmacy/lethal-injection-as-capital-punishment-the-issues/4234/Much of the debate surrounding lethal injection and its role as a form capital punishment in the United States stems from concerns of whether the drug combinations we choose-and how we administer them-engender a degree of unnecessary suffering. When weighing the ethics of lethal injection against thMaintaining Glycemic Control in the ICU Setting
https://reachmd.com/programs/focus-on-pharmacy/maintaining-glycemic-control-in-the-icu-setting/2770/Hyperglycemia and the critically ill: how can we best keep our patients' blood sugars under control? What are the major clinical considerations and administrative needs underlying this important issue? Critical care pharmacy specialist Dr. Brian Smith speaks with host Dr. Charles Turck about how toVariability Theory in Health Care: Cutting Costs, Increasing Quality
https://reachmd.com/programs/clinicians-roundtable/variability-theory-in-health-care-cutting-costs-increasing-quality/2121/One of America’s sharpest minds in health care and operations management says we’ve been looking for answers in all the wrong places. Eugene Litvak, PhD, from the Boston University Health Policy Institute, instead recommends a plan built around variability theory that will cut costs and increase qua