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Health Care Overhaul Could Include Changes To Doctor Payments
The Wall Street Journal reports that "Democratic centrists said they won a tentative commitment from the White House to back a proposal to curb the growth of Medicare costs. ... One proposal pushed both by President Barack Obama and some centrists is to give the executive branch the authority to implement cuts to Medicare spending that would be recommended by independent experts. Congress could stop the cuts, but only if it acted swiftly. Fiscal conservatives say that under the current system, which gives Congress more power, lawmakers shy away from politically tough votes to restrain Medicare costs."
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Predicting Tamoxifen Resistance In Patients
Tamoxifen is a widely used and highly successful drug in the treatment of breast cancer, though resistance to tamoxifen is still a concern in recurrent disease (affecting 25-35% of patients), since therapy resistant metastatic tumor cells are a major cause of death. In a study in this month"s Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, researchers have uncovered a protein profile that may accurately predict whether a cancer will be tamoxifen resistant.
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Moist Wound Healing Reduces Scarring And Promotes Faster Healing
New consensus has been reached by a panel of leading European experts on the guidelines for the treatment of acute minor wounds which states that healing is accelerated by a moist wound environment.
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Canadian Lung Association Launches New Online Tools To Help People With Lung Disease Find Local Programs

Want to find an asthma education centre or a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) clinic near you? Need to get a lung function test and don"t know where to go? The Canadian Lung Association is making it easier for Canadians to find help in their area with new online tools: searchable databases of lung disease programs and services available in Canada. By entering your town or city or postal code, you will find programs or lung testing sites near you. For each program listed, you"ll get an interactive map that shows its location. You"ll find out who qualifies for the program, whether you need a doctor"s referral, contact information and hours of operation. "These new online tools make it really easy for people with lung disease to get connected to local services" says Melanie Wise, Consumer Health Information Manager for The Lung Association. "Patients and healthcare providers have been asking for local program information for a long time; now it"s all here, at the click of a mouse." Find an asthma program (clinic, education centre, support group) near you Find a COPD program (clinic, education centre, support group) near you Find a pulmonary rehabilitation program near you Find a lung testing lab or spirometry clinic near you These search tools were developed through unrestricted educational grants from Boehringer Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline Inc., and Pfizer Canada. Canadian Lung Association


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