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...prevention programs aren't cheap, but the cost of doing nothing is far greater. "If we don't take care of this issue now, we will have huge numbers of Type 2 diabetics, and we will be paying for them with our tax dollars," says Dr. Phyllis Preciado, an internist who runs a diabetes clinic in California's farming-rich Central Valley. As the U.S. loses productive members of the work force, she notes, more people will turn to public assistance for treatment. And the increased toll in human suffering will be staggering...
...group model is being extended to Veterans Health Administration centers around the country. Endocrinologist David Shewmon started group appointments in his Wooster, Ohio, practice last January and has reduced the wait time for a follow-up appointment from six months to about a week. In Kalamazoo, Mich., internist Ed Millermaier can get you in for a shared physical next week, but if you want an individual appointment, there's a four-month wait...
Rohypnol is a sleeping pill in Europe, produced by Switzerland-based Hoffman-La Roche Pharmaceuticals. The company’s latest pills turn blue in alcohol to avoid abuse, but there are American manufacturers that produce imitation drugs, according to Dr. Christopher M. Coley, a general internist...
...excitement owes much to a friendly turn at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under new commissioner Mark McClellan, formerly a practicing internist and Stanford University economist who is on a mission to get lifesaving drugs through the review process safely and quickly. He believes that poor communication between the FDA and firms seeking drug approval adds months to reviews--and costs companies millions of dollars. He took over in November and immediately steered Millennium Pharmaceuticals' cancer treatment Velcade to a fast-track approval. One can't overestimate "how important the FDA's change in attitude has been," says Kris...
...Drug promotion can still continue, but without the bribery," says Dr. Bob Goodman, 43, a New York City internist who in 1999 founded NoFreeLunch.org to raise awareness of the effect that drug promotion has on doctors' prescriptions. Goodman's group has even launched an assault on the ubiquitous ballpoint pens bearing drug logos; doctors are urged to trade in branded pens for ones that say no free lunch. (The old pens go to charity...