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Karen Davis of the Commonwealth Fund outlines several realistic scenarios on health reform options for the Obama administration:
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Assisted suicide measure passed by a vote of 58.68% (yes) to 41.32% (no).
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The Harvard Medical School Program in Palliative Care Education and Practice (PCEP) is accepting applications for its 2009 trainings. The deadline is January 30, 2009.
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Hospice Foundation of America is registering sites for its upcoming videoconference on Diversity and End-Of-Life Care.
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Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kans.) and Rep. Diane Watson (D-Calif.) have introduced the Access, Compassion, Care, and Ethics for Seriously Ill Patients Act (ACCESS) to make it easier for terminally ill patients to use treatments in the investigational phase of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.
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Lewis Morris, Chief Counsel to the Inspector General, testified before Congress on ways to improve the quality of nursing home care.
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Center for Medicare Advocacy review of nursing home enforcement decisions shows that serious deficiencies often get only modest fines and penalties, calls for tougher action.
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State nursing home inspectors miss or minimize deficiencies such as malnutrition, severe bedsores, overuse of medications and abuse that pose threats to patients, according to a report by the Govenment Accountability Office .
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Relistor⢠(methylnaltrexone bromide) subcutaneous injection for the treatment of opioid-induced constipation in patients with advanced illness who are receiving palliative care, when response to laxative therapy has not been sufficient.
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American Enterprise Institute study says that if Medicare is to pay all of its bills over the next seventy-five years, $36 trillion in general taxes, measured in today's dollars, must be transferred to the trust funds.
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