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		<title>Six Ways to Cut Waste and Improve Quality in US Health Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 15:55:11 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly everyone agrees, health care costs in the United States are becoming unsustainable. These higher costs not only affect Medicare and Medicaid services but private sector health insurance as well. In an effort to reduce these costs, changes in payment levels, benefit structures and eligibility have been suggested. A less harmful strategy may be to -]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dr. Adam Bitterman &#8211; Lend a Hand</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:58:38 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<description><![CDATA[Help a friend of The Doctor&#8217;s Channel continue working as an orthopedic surgery resident. Dr. Adam Bitterman, a newly displaced orphan resident from New York City, is looking for employment due to a hospital closure. Adam can be reached at adam.bitterman@gmail.com. If you can help, please let him know your availability to discuss things further.]]></description>
		
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	<media:description><![CDATA[Help a friend of The Doctor&#8217;s Channel continue working as an orthopedic surgery resident. Dr. Adam Bitterman, a newly displaced orphan resident from New York City, is looking for employment due to a hospital closure. Adam can be reached at adam.bitterman@gmail.com. If you can help, please let him know your availability to discuss things further.]]></media:description>
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		<title>Doximity: Linking Medical Minds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:29:24 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<category><![CDATA[Medical Informatics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doximity is linking the medical community together with a new social network. It is a forum for openly talking with colleagues or a place for private group discussions. Doximity is providing a HIPAA compliant, safe and secure environment to connect with others in the world of medicine. The CEO, Jeff Tangney, discusses the new offerings -]]></description>
		
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		<title>Targeted prophylaxis reduces infections after transrectal prostate biopsy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:00:45 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<category><![CDATA[Reuters Health • The Doctor's Channel Daily Newscast]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Antibiotic prophylaxis based on rectal swab cultures in men undergoing transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsies (TRUSP) reduces the incidence of post-procedure infectious complications. Furthermore, the strategy is cost-effective, according to a report in the April issue of the Journal of Urology. “The impetus for our study was the increasing incidence of -]]></description>
		
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		<title>To prevent nosocomial norovirus spread, focus on symptomatic cases</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:08:04 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients and health care workers (HCWs) with symptomatic nosocomial norovirus (NoV) infection are much more apt to transmit the virus than asymptomatic shedders, new research suggests. In email to Reuters Health, Dr. Faizel H. Sukhrie from the National Institute for Public Health, Center for Infectious Disease and Control, Bilthoven, the -]]></description>
		
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		<title>What if Your Hotel Bill Was Like a Hospital Bill?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:10:31 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<category><![CDATA[Doc Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patient Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health care costs are notoriously opaque, often leaving patients saddled with unexpectedly high bills and making it challenging for them to understand their expenses. To make matters more complicated, doctors, nurses and other caregivers are seldom in a position to understand how their decisions impact what patients pay for care. The Costs of Care Teaching -]]></description>
		
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		<title>Check-ups may be safely reduced for early-stage melanoma patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 06:21:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<category><![CDATA[Reuters Health • The Doctor's Channel Daily Newscast]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The number of monitoring visits for patients treated for localized primary melanoma can be reduced considerably, without having much effect on spotting any recurrent or new melanomas, according to an Australian study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology online November 7. “Current guidelines on the frequency of follow-up after -]]></description>
		
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		<media:title><![CDATA[Check-ups may be safely reduced for early-stage melanoma patients]]></media:title>
	<media:description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The number of monitoring visits for patients treated for localized primary melanoma can be reduced considerably, without having much effect on spotting any recurrent or new melanomas, according to an Australian study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology online November 7. “Current guidelines on the frequency of follow-up after -]]></media:description>
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		<title>Diabetes patients do better with more frequent doctor contacts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:57:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<category><![CDATA[Endocrinology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internal Medicine]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[blood pressure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cholesterol]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Alexander Turchin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with diabetes achieve faster control of A1C, blood pressure and cholesterol targets when they see or have contact with their primary care provider every 2 weeks rather than less frequently, a Massachusetts-based team has shown. “Encounters every 2 weeks may, therefore, be appropriate for the most severely uncontrolled patients,” -]]></description>
		
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		<title>Undetectable high-sensitivity troponin on presentation rules out AMI</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:45:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<category><![CDATA[Cardiology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[acute MI]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Richard Body]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) &#8211; If patients presenting with chest pain have undetectable levels of troponin when tested using a high-sensitivity assay, they almost certainly do not have acute MI, according to findings reported in the September 20 issue of the Journal of American College of Cardiology. “This research breaks new ground concerning the ability -]]></description>
		
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	<media:description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) &#8211; If patients presenting with chest pain have undetectable levels of troponin when tested using a high-sensitivity assay, they almost certainly do not have acute MI, according to findings reported in the September 20 issue of the Journal of American College of Cardiology. “This research breaks new ground concerning the ability -]]></media:description>
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		<title>Worse outcomes after spinal metastases surgery at academic medical centers in July</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:18:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<category><![CDATA[Reuters Health • The Doctor's Channel Daily Newscast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surgery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Ali Bydon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[July effect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spinal metastases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surgery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients undergoing surgery for spinal metastases at teaching hospitals in July have higher mortality and complication rates than similar patients treated in other months, according to a report in the August 25th online issue of Cancer. “The ‘July effect’ has long been anecdotal in nature,” Dr. Ali Bydon from Johns -]]></description>
		
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