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Managing Atrial Fibrillation in Heart Failure
In Dr. Wes - Posted 4 weeks ago
When the number of authors on a paper approach the number of patients in one arm of a prospective, randomized trial... heads up.I have just finished r...
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Presidential health and your vote
In CNN Paging Dr. Gupta - Posted 6 weeks ago
By Caleb HellermanCNN Medical Senior ProducerA few weeks ago I saw something extraordinary: the medical planning book for one of President Bush s pr...
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In which the NY Times publishes an anti-P4P article
In DB's Medical Rants - Posted 10 weeks ago
The Pitfalls of Linking Doctors Pay to Performance The program is called pay for performance, P4P for short. Employers and insurers, including Me...
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The Problems With Paying Doctors for Performance in Health Care
In WSJ.com: Health Blog - Posted 10 weeks ago
Everybody s trying to figure out how to create a health system that ties payments to the quality of care. But measuring quality of care is maddening...
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Class Of Diabetes Drugs Carries Significant Cardiovascular Risks
In Diabetes News from dLife.com - Posted 12 weeks ago
August 28, 2008 (EurekAlert) - A class of oral drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes may make heart failure worse, according to an editorial published o...
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Marketing Accurate Empathy
In Dr. Wes - Posted 14 weeks ago
Meanwhile, back in the AstraZeneca marketing department: Hey, Joe, I got an AWESOME idea! We've got a few hundred thousand extra bucks lying around, ...
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Dronedarone Granted Reprieve
In Dr. Wes - Posted 15 weeks ago
It seems Sanofi-Aventis's amiodarone analog drug, dronedarone (marketed as Multaq ), was granted a stay of execution by the FDA:Multaq appeared at on...
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When Nursing Homes Can And Can t Evict Patients
In WSJ.com: Health Blog - Posted 15 weeks ago
If you re in a nursing home, federal law says you can only be evicted for a few reasons if you can t pay the bill, if you re well enough to ...
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AstraZeneca's Traveling Heart Failure Simulator
In Medgadget - Posted 16 weeks ago
Apple's website features AstraZeneca's Heart FXPod, a 53-foot-long mobile van outfitted with five virtual reality stations that offer a complex mult...
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Emergency Room Follow Up
In Heart Disease - Posted 17 weeks ago
I am very glad to see all the thoughtful comments on the last Tales From the Emergency Room post. I was inspired by your comments to post this follo...
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