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In their zeal to protect research participants from undue risk, are IRBs actually making them more vulnerable, by causing frustrated researchers to circumvent the IRB system?
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While a key component of preventing surgical site infections is to educate staff members and physicians, don't forget that your patients and their family members need to understand the basics of infection control and infection identification.
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Clinical trials involving gene therapy are considered to be of great enough real and potential risk that they are not attempted in children before they have been conducted with adults.
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A gravely ill Sephardic Jew came to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from his home in Israel, hoping to find a successful treatment for his terminal cancer. The treatment did not yield the results he had hoped, but chaplain Rabbi Levi Meier visited his room with something more comforting than medicine.
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Abraham Cherrix is a 15-year-old boy with Hodgkin's disease. He's also an Internet-savvy free thinker who doesn't want to do another round of chemotherapy and radiation; what he wants to do is go to Mexico for a controversial herbal treatment he hopes will cure him.
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Knowing that you have hit on the ideal medication for your patient's condition is a satisfying feeling. But if you fail to ask one important question before handing him the prescription "Can you afford this medicine?" your careful thought may have been wasted.
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Even before doctors in France performed a thus-far successful transplant of a partial face in November 2005, experts in the United States had the expertise and knowledge to transplant a face. What they have lacked is the right person to receive the graft.
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In some long-awaited good news for surgical hospitals, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has publicly announced that it doesn't plan to extend the moratorium. However, specialty hospitals that open in the future will face tighter scrutiny, according to testimony by CMS administrator Mark McClellan before a Senate Finance Committee.
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You won't get paid for a procedure until you bill for it. That's why participants in the Ambulatory Surgery Non-Clinical Study for Colonoscopy focus on getting payments upfront and to getting bills out to insurance companies and Medicare quickly.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has clarified Medicare policy for payment and billing of services such as implants and prosthetics that are not covered by the ambulatory surgery center (ASC) facility fee. The notice informs providers about which additional services are to be paid and to whom they are to be billed.
