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New UCLA Method Predicts Which Brain Tumors Will Respond To Avastin
UCLA researchers have uncovered a new way to scan brain tumors and predict which ones will be shrunk by the drug Avastin - before the patient ever starts treatment. By linking high water movement in tumors to positive drug response, the UCLA team predicted with 70 percent accuracy which patients" tumors were the least likely to grow six months after therapy.
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House Health Bill To Include Public Plan, Insurers Resisting
On Monday, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, D- N.Y., told reporters that the House bill will include a new public insurance plan, Reuters/The Boston Globe reports. "Similar to legislation being developed in the Senate, the House bill would establish an insurance exchange to help people without employer-sponsored insurance find medical coverage." The government-sponsored public insurance plan would be "one of the options available, lawmakers said." The bill would also establish a mandate that would "require individuals and businesses to obtain coverage."
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Health Outcomes Explored At DDW 2009: Environmental Pollution Increases The Risk Of Liver Disease
A new study is the first to show that there is a previously unrecognized role for environmental pollution in liver disease in the general U.S. adult population. This work builds upon the groups" previous research demonstrating liver disease in highly-exposed chemical workers. The study is being presented during Digestive Disease Week® 2009 (DDW®), the largest international gathering of physicians and researchers in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery.
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Make National Labour Force Survey Compulsory

Medical practitioners should be required to participate in a new national medical labour force survey as part of their registration obligations, to assist workforce planning, according to an article published in this year"s General Practice edition of the Medical Journal of Australia. Dr Deborah Askew, Senior Research Fellow in General Practice at the University of Queensland, and her co-authors argue that the data from the current workforce surveys administered by state and territory medical boards are neither timely nor comprehensive. Dr Askew said the establishment of a new national medical registration scheme and a National Minimum Data Set Project in 2010 should be used to move medical workforce data collection into the 21st century. "Workforce planning aims to ensure an adequate supply of doctors with the appropriate skills to meet the current and projected future medical care needs of the population," Dr Askew said. "This requires accurate information about the current medical workforce. "Making the workforce survey a compulsory component of registration would enable development of a comprehensive national dataset. "The introduction of web-based electronic data capture for both medical registration and workforce data would facilitate timely analysis and reporting." Dr Askew said national labour force data could be used to monitor trends such as the impact of the feminisation of the general practice workforce on work patterns and the demands placed on GPs who teach medical students and doctors-in-training. In the same issue of the Medical Journal of Australia, the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute outlines recommendations from a Workforce Roundtable. Recommendations highlighted by Associate Professor Kirsty Douglas and her co-authors included: Simplifying the Medicare Benefits Schedule; effectively funding undergraduate and prevocational medical and nursing education and training in primary health care; developing the career structure and training pathways for GPs and primary health care nurses. GP Week runs from 20 - 26 July. The Medical Journal of Australia is a publication of the Australian Medical Association. Australian Medical Association


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