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Life After the Women’s Health Initiative
Confusion over HT Remains
When the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) trial of estrogen plus progestin was halted based on findings that the combination carried significant health risks that outweighed its benefits, women and healthcare providers around the country were left to navigate menopausal symptom management in a strange new world.
CINDY SANDERS
Avastin Wins FDA Accelerated Approval for Advanced HER2-Negative Breast Cancer
Avastin® by Genentech, Inc. (NYSE: DNA), a therapeutic antibody that interferes with a tumor’s blood supply, recently received accelerated approval from the FDA for use in combination with paclitaxel chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of metastatic HER2-negative breast cancer.
CINDY SANDERS
Physician Recruiters Offer Tips to Docs on the Market
If you’re a physician looking for a job and a recruiting firm asks for money to help you secure employment, walk the other way. That’s the first word of advice to doctors from two physician recruiters who collectively boast more than five decades of experience in the profession.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD
Covering the Uninsured
Election Year Focuses Attention on Millions without Adequate Access
From April 27 to May 3, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and 18 partner organizations host national Cover the Uninsured Week. For the nearly one in six Americans without coverage, this sixth annual weeklong event focuses attention on a problem they face 365 days a year.
CINDY SANDERS
Synopses of Major Candidates’ Healthcare Plans
Each of the three major presidential candidates has made healthcare a platform priority. While the plans differ to varying degrees, the terms “portable and affordable” have become a rallying cry for all three senators.
Below are some of the key points of each candidate’s proposal to reform healthcare and increase access for the uninsured and underinsured.
CINDY SANDERS
States Consider Uniform Law on Out-of-State Licenses in Emergencies
Among the many beyond-belief stories from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were those of out-of-state healthcare professionals waiting days to get permission to practice in the disaster-struck states, at times even struggling to get through security lines and sometimes serving as manual laborers while they waited, even as multitudes of patients suffered. Other professionals just went to the areas and began to help people on the street.
KATHRYN FOXHALL
CON Opposition Mounts across the South
Few Believe Anything Will Change
Florida Governor Charlie Crist is mounting an aggressive campaign this year against the state’s certification process for new hospitals, commonly known as Certificate of Need (CON). And he’s not alone.
CON laws face a battery of opposition in states across the South. Yet few believe that the laws will change.
DAVID ROSENFELD
Health Plans More Aggressive in Managing Imaging Services
For the number crunchers working for health plans, few cost items have proved as thorny as advanced imaging services. For years now, imaging costs have been shooting up at double-digit rates, often with little, by way of improved outcomes, to show for it.
JOHN CARROLL
AAN Chief Says Neurology Promises
PERPETUAL HORIZON FOR DISCOVERIES
As president of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), Dr. Stephen Sergay leads the world’s largest group of neurologists at 20,000 members strong. But when he’s in his clinic in Tampa, Fla., there’s only one individual on his mind — the patient sitting in front of him.
The person-centered relationship between patient and physician is one Sergay hopes to see return to the forefront, in an age when efficiency and cost savings can go only so far in reforming America’s healthcare system.
LUCY SCHULTZE
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