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MASON CITY, Iowa -- A proposal to replace HCFA's recently enacted resource-based relative value scale has taken off like a tumbleweed in a tornado. Support for the proposal, which would [...]

The moratorium on silicone-gel breast implants has given rise to patient panic, mistrust of manufacturers and continued erosion of confidence in the Food and Drug Administration. Whether these responses are [...]

As the first official year of the new decade drew to a close, it became apparent that the souped-up, high-spending '80s were gone. The party was over and the piper [...]

LAS VEGAS -- The AMA has set off down the path toward treating AIDS as just another infectious disease. At this month's Interim Meeting, the House of Delegates adopted several [...]

Industry-paid CME: Is it education or promotion? CHICAGO--Providers of continuing medical education are feeling the hot breath of Congress on their necks. The Senate Committee on Labor and Human Relations, [...]

Clinical trials rules adding to price tag Babylon, 550 BC--A Judean investigator has announced the results of a pilot study designed to determine the short-term effects of a vegetarian diet. [...]

Accelerated release or reduced risk? SKOKIE, Ill. -- It's been 4-1/2 years since the truck pulled away from the loading dock at Searle. It was loaded with nearly a half-ton [...]

Biotech firms battle over patent rights When biotechnology companies aren't making 'magic bullets' against disease, they're firing legal salvos at one another. Genetech brought suit against Burrough Wellcome and Genetics [...]

Genetic testing: Screen whom for what? Sickle-cell anemia, hemophilia, the thalassemias, Huntington's disease, [alpha.sub.1]-antitrypsin deficiency, Duchenne and Becker's muscular dystrophy, neurofibromatosis, cystic fibrosis. These serious hereditary diseases revealed their genetic [...]

For-profit research FRANKLIN, Tenn. -- Robert K. Oldham, MD, was looking for a visionary with big bucks. He thought Ted Turner might be his man. 'I knew I had to [...]

Fund-raisers compete for share of America's charity Some 800 enthusiastic men and women from across the nation will converge upon Atlanta Jan. 25 for a two-day total-immersion course in money-making. [...]

In the grand scheme of things, we humans are a lot like the Energizer bunny. As the only species whose life span is known to extend decades past the reproductive [...]

MASON CITY, Iowa - Its ranks are small and scattered. Its leadership is, at best, questionable. Nonetheless, the Boondocks Medical Society is positioning itself to become a major force in [...]

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Gene therapy is bursting out of the Beltway. The pioneering technique for treating disease with doses of DNA is no longer the exclusive purview of physicians [...]

The Food and Drug Administration approved new drugs at an accelerated pace last year. Giving the Ok to nine new drugs last month, the FDA brought its 1991 approvals of [...]

Domestic violence is a lot like cancer. Its form is diverse, its etiology varied, its risk factors many. It often evades detection until it becomes fatal. Just as certain environmental [...]

BETHESDA, Md. -- Next week, cancer research hits an important benchmark -- the 20th anniversary of the National Cancer Act. The occasion has provided a year-long opportunity both to celebrate [...]

If there's a single message in the recent attention to the topic of euthanasia, it's that patients fear one thing more than death -- pain. The popularity of the suicide [...]

SEATTLE -- Although Washington voters failed to legalize physician-assisted suicide, the issue appears to be anything but dead. Initiative 119, the so-called 'death with dignity' measure, was defeated by a [...]

ATLANTA -- A hospital-based epidemic of latex anaphylaxis may be ballooning. In the last year, epidemiologists at the Centers for Disease Control have been looking into a rash of severe [...]

WASHINGTON -- While celebrating an abundance of new diagnostic tests, geneticists also are lamenting a dearth of counselors and physicians qualified to interpret the results. DNA diagnostic tests for common [...]

When AIDS researcher Donald Thea, MD, and his wife, Maggie, went to Kinshasa, Zaire, in 1989, they brought the beginnings of a microbiology laboratory, a carload of wedding gifts and [...]

In the era of instant coffee, instant credit and other forms of instant gratification, the instant medical journal is an idea whose time has come. At least the American Assn. [...]

There is, at least for the time being, a consensus among the consensus-makers on cancer. When it comes to screening and detecting cancers of the skin, mouth, breast, colon and [...]

In the realm of treatment guidelines and consensus statements, cholesterol control is the new kid on the block. That's understandable considering it wasn't possible to compute serum cholesterol levels until [...]

Although it's not quite 20 years old, the JNC is the granddad (or grande dame) of consensus development committees. The expert panel, formally identified as the Joint National Committee on [...]

These days, medical innovations are becoming standard of care faster than you can say 'consensus conference.' Laparoscopic cholecystectomy, a procedure virtually unknown two years ago, is practiced throughout the nation. [...]