In this week’s issue:

• DMAA announces name change, honors corporate leaders, and releases second volume of Outcomes Guidelines Report at their Annual Meeting
• Watchdog group names top hospitals, identifies care gaps
• PhRMA releases report that shows Medicare Part D is working
• What does it take to clean fresh food?
• Health care reform: What we need to listen for from presidential candidates

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Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Case Management Society of America September Meeting. This was not their typical monthly meeting, but a special meeting made possible through the support of several vendors that enabled them to rent the Spirit of Philadelphia and cruise the Delaware River on a […]

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In this week’s issue:

• Researcher links low income to poor health (audio)
• What women build
• Life expectancy in United States continues to rise
• Lung cancer guidelines released by the American College of Chest Physicians
• Study: Cancer patients also suffer from mental health issues

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Thanks to all who responded to my request last week to assist a young man who sustained a spinal cord injury in 2005. As you may recall, he is living in a nursing home near Macon, Ga. I put out an SOS for ideas and a request for a case manager in the Georgia area […]

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In this week’s issue:

• Revised U.S. guidelines push for day-to-day asthma control
• Census Bureau cites rise in uninsured Americans
• CDC: Vaccination rates for teens lag
• An interview with Dr. Mark Chassin, new president of the Joint Commission
• Wi-Fi access increasingly common at many U.S. hospitals

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