ABLEnews MedNotes

                        AMERICAN MEDICAL NEWS (3/2/92)

Hard Times in States Afflict Undefunded Licensure Boards (1)

  State medical boards are "the backwaters of state government."
  --Health and Human Services Inspector General Richard Kusserow.

Physicians Can Still Suggest Modifications in Medicare Values (1)

  Medical groups and individual physicians have until March 24 to
  recommend changes in Resource-Based Relative Value System.

States and Feds Bounce Reform Ball Back and Forth (1)

A M A Proposes New Alliance in Renewed Tort Reform Push (2)

  American Medical Association, National Association of Manufacturers,
  et al.

Gene Therapy Trials Expand Into Heartland (3)

  "The fact that gene therapy can occur outside the N I H illustrates
  its vast potential." --Doctor James Wilson, chief, Michigan Division
  of Molecular Medicine and Genetics.

Tobacco Firm Attacks JAMA Ad Studies (3)

Benefits Seen in Regulating Fertility Medicine (3)

  Trial of Doctor Cecil Jacobsen accused of fathering 75 highlights
  issue.

Study Raises Questions Over Early Vs. Late AZT Therapy (4)

Physical Therapists Push Self-Referral Ban in Missouri (5)

  Bill would ban physicians' referrals to outpatient physical therapy
  centers in which they have an ownership interest.

A A R P Issues Its Own Plan for Health Reform (5)

Florida Panel: Keep T B Hospital Open--But at Half Capacity (6)

  Planned shutdown of Holley State Hospital one of four T B hospitals
  left in the United States dropped in view of rising T B rate.

Doctor Kevorkian May Stand Trial for Assisted Suicides (6)

  Prosecutor says deaths of Marjorie Wantz, 58, and Sherry Miller, 43,
  are murder.

WHO Paints Bleaker Picture of Worldwide AIDS Spread (7)

  More than one million persons have contracted the H I V virus in
  recent months, 90% through heterosexual intercourse.

New Policy for Pediatric H I V Testing (7)

Florida Doctors Offer Medical Lifeline to Laid-Off Workers (8)

  "They supported me as a provider--and I'll suport them." --Doctor Mark
  LaPorta, internist.

Drug Czar Raps Needle-Exchange Program (8)

Doctor Aoun Dies; Contracted H I V While Resident (9)

  36-year-old physician had sued John Hopkins for trying to avoid
  responsibility for his illness.

Is This Dollar Worth $20? (11)

  Auction demonstrates conflict escalation.

Physicians Feel Effects of Utilization Review in Practices (11)

  More than 70% of surgeons, nearly half of all physicians report
  reviews.

Pay for Senior Managers of Practices on the Upswing (14)

Children's Low-Fat Diets May Be Lacking Nutrients (17)

Sick Newborns May Not Be Getting Follow-Up (17)

  "A significant number of neonates who have metabolic disorders
  ...identified by neonatal screening tests may fail to receive timely
  treatment." --Doctor Robert Listernick, Children's Memorial Hospital.

Community Contributions Are Corporate Lifeblood (18)

  Baxter opens blood donation center in corporate headquarters.

A M A Campaign Tells Medicine's Story (editorial) (19)

Is U S Willing to Pay the Price for Health Reform? (ope ed) (20)

  Professor William Glasser, New School for Social Research, would ape
  Germany which allows elite 8% to choose private health insurance.

The Necessary Involvement of Stewardship in Medicine (21)

  "We...need to consider cost as we make therapeutic decisions." --Dr.
  J. Chris Hawk, President, South Carolina Medical Association [CURE
  Comment: Cost-cutting does not justify care-cutting.]

Hansen's Disease Research Center Moves to Louisiana University (23)

  Disease than affects 12 million goes back to biblical times.

Group Wants More Federal Cancer Prevention Effort (24)

  Charges National Cancer Institute and American Cancer Society have
  "confused the public and Congress by repeated claims that we are
  winning the war against cancer."

Stretching Time (25)

  A primer on managing two full-time jobs: medicine and parenting.

Patient Helps Embarassed Opthamologist See the Light (29)

  From 20/400 to 20/40. (first-person account)

Idaho Lawmaker Proposes Ban on Suicide Books (29)

  How-to suicide manuals should be kept out of the hands of
  impressionable teens, says Representative Bill Sali.

Swiss Reject Animal Research Curbs (32)

  57% reject restrictions in national referendum.

School Can Continue Prenatal Tests (32)

  More than 100 abortions have been performed at University of Arkansas
  for Medical Sciences despite 1988 state constitutional amendment
  banning taxpayer-funded abortions. [CURE Comment: Prenatal euthanasia
  follows search-and-destroy missions against disAbled children.]

[The above listing, prepared for ABLEnews by CURE, includes all major
articles in the cited issue and a representative selection of the rest.]

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