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Genetic Nondiscrimination
May 14, 2008 6:26 PM by Kerri Penno
Earlier this month, the House passed H.R. 493, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, by a vote of 414 to 1. The legislation aims to prevent insurance companies and employers from discriminating against employees based on their genetic information. Read More...
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Competitive Bidding Halted
April 9, 2008 3:08 PM by Kerri Penno
United States District Judge Thomas J. Whelan has granted a preliminary injunction blocking implementation of the competitive bidding demonstration project in the San Diego Area. Here is an excerpt from a CLMA e-mail alert: This is a huge victory for Read More...
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Personal Politics
March 14, 2008 9:25 AM by Kerri Penno
Last month, HHS secretary Michael Leavitt (or Mike, as he goes by in his blog ) posted a comment about the urgent state of Medicare, which accounts for 56 percent of the HHS budget. Left as is, Medicare is just 11 years from going broke, Mike pointed Read More...
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Competitive Bidding Halt Denied
February 25, 2008 3:23 PM by Kerri Penno
On February 14, federal court Judge Whelan issued an order denying a temporary restraining order (TRO) to plaintiff laboratories Sharp HealthCare, Scripps Health and Internist Laboratory of Oceanside, in their complaint against the HHS for implementing Read More...
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CLC Files Lawsuit Against Government
January 29, 2008 7:00 PM by Matthew T. Patton
We received this press release today from CLMA: The Clinical Laboratory Coalition (CLC), of which CLMA is an active member, announced its support for a lawsuit filed today by San Diego area clinical laboratories and health systems in an attempt to stop Read More...
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Dolly for Dinner?
January 16, 2008 1:49 PM by Kerri Penno
When dining out, we choose our wines by variety, and the year and region in which they were produced. How would you like to choose your steak the same way? If you think 2007 was a particularly good year for beef, you're in luck. The FDA has deemed meat Read More...
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Stem Cell Breakthroughs
December 12, 2007 3:00 PM by Kerri Penno
In November, a team of researchers reported they had genetically reprogrammed human skin cells to create cells indistinguishable from embryonic stem cells. Time magazine recently called this and other stem cell breakthroughs the top scientific discovery Read More...
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Write Your Reps
November 8, 2007 10:31 AM by Kerri Penno
San Diego has been selected as the site of the demonstration program for competitive bidding for clinical laboratory services. ASCLS recently sent out a call to action, stating the program "will destroy the hospital outreach and small laboratories in Read More...
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Learning From History? Maybe Not
October 24, 2007 12:19 PM by Matthew T. Patton
I'm a huge genealogy and history buff. While recently looking over the "Biennial Report of the State Board of Health (1902-1903)" for Kentucky, I came across this report from the county doctor, T. Atchison Frazer, MD. Dr. Frazer was in the era of the Read More...
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