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Disaster preparedness, What we have learned from COVID 19 pandemic [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Despite a joint recommendation in 2003 by the AAMC and CDC that bioterrorism and mass-casualty training be included in the medical school curriculum, few medical schools have incorporated formal disaster training. Result: Among participants, 9% (n=3) had previous public health emergency experience, while 91% (n=31) did not.

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The Massachusetts Avenue of health reform

The Health Policy Exchange

In contrast to the personality-driven path that Lyndon Johnson took to navigate legislative obstacles to Medicare and Medicaid, former management consultant Mitt Romney charted a decidedly different course to expanding health insurance when he became governor of Massachusetts in 2003. Together, Romney and Kennedy approached the George W.

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Higher Dietary Calcium Intake May Up Risk of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

Physician's Weekly

Hongyuan Chang, from Xiyuan Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing, and colleagues used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey conducted from 2003 to 2008 to examine the association between dietary calcium intake and the risk of BPH.

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Cancer Doesn't Discriminate. or Does It? Dr. Rebecca Redman

Louisville Lectures

She graduated from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health in 2003. Dr. Redman is affiliated with University Of Louisville Hospital and Robley Rex VA Medical Center. She works in Louisville, KY and one other location and specializes in Internal Medicine and Hematology/Oncology. Learn more here.

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Diabetes mellitus: Women are at higher risk of venous thromboembolism than men

Medical Xpress

In total, massive amounts of data from around 45 million hospitalizations and 7,239,710 patients in Austria between 2003 and 2014 were studied.

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Supreme Court Finds CMS’ Reduction of Medicare Hospital Outpatient Payment Rates for 340B Hospitals was Not Authorized by Statute

FDA Law Blog

Kirschenbaum — In 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a final rule to significantly decrease the rate the government will reimburse 340B hospitals in 2018 for outpatient prescription drugs from average sales price (“ASP”) plus 6% to ASP minus 22.5%. 52494 (Nov. CMS estimated a savings of $1.6 See 42 U.S.C.

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Navigating the Quademic: Clinical Differentiation of Influenza, RSV, COVID-19, and Norovirus in Pediatric Emergency Care

PEMBlog

Diagnostic Costs : RSV rapid tests: $100-$400 (higher end when included in multiplex testing) Risk Stratification : Infants <6 months, especially those with prematurity, chronic lung disease, or congenital heart disease, have a heightened risk of hospitalization. MMWR Recomm Rep 2003; 52:1. Clin Microbiol Infect 2003; 9:247.

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