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When Sarah Janosek drove to see her first patient in the early morning of Nov. 5, she knew her husband, a software engineer, could be one of the hundreds of Advanced Micro Devices employees laid off that day. "He called me at approximately 10 a.m. and told me they had not called him in yet," remembers Janosek, a 47-year-old hospice nurse and mother of three teenagers in Austin, Texas. "And then he called me 15 minutes later to say he was one of those chosen...
...rules, which also establish the first federal registry of eligible stem-cell lines, were immediately applauded by scientists and by various patient advocacy groups. "These guidelines will bring us closer than ever toward unleashing the promise of embryonic-stem-cell-research and maximizing its therapeutic potential for patients with Type 1 diabetes," said Alan Lewis, president of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation...
...consumers and ethicists that while nobody can predict how donated embryos may end up being used in research, couples undergoing IVF should be made fully aware of the widest range of possibilities. Overall, the NIH rules took into account 49,000 comments submitted to the agency by scientists, patient advocates, medical and religious organizations, private citizens and members of Congress during a public comment period...
Indeed, doctors have so far managed to avoid such reform in their own practices, and lawmakers may be running full speed into a minefield with any efforts to change their behavior. Physicians will accuse politicians of getting in the way of the doctor-patient relationship; devicemakers will say a "bundled" fee structure will force providers to use cheap, outdated equipment; and hospitals, already strapped for cash, will resist any reform that decreases their reimbursements...
...board with bundled, per-episode care. "You entered this profession to be healers," he said. "Now, that starts with reforming the way we compensate our providers - doctors and hospitals. We need to bundle payments so you aren't paid for every single treatment you offer a patient with a chronic condition like diabetes, but instead paid well for how you treat the overall disease...