AMA doctors spoke with one voice at the organization’s annual meeting in Chicago, calling on Congress to stop Medicare physician payment cuts and instead update payments in line with practice cost increases. Next year, Congress plans to cut Medicare physician payments by 10 percent, placing seniors’ access to health care at risk.
Today, America’s doctors said loud and clear that they want to improve the federal health insurance program that protects America’s children, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. (OTCBB:ACTC ? News) has successfully produced a human embryonic stem cell (hESC) line without destroying an embryo at its lab in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Most young Singaporean students who will be traveling next week and during July will be vacationing, relaxing and sightseeing. But not 18-year old Nicholas Tan Xue-Wei, who will soon depart for the U.S. to attend ? and present a research paper ? at The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP’07), June 25 to 28, in Las Vegas.
Breastfeeding for a period of thirteen months or more has been shown to reduce the mother?s the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to new data presented at EULAR 2007, the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology in Barcelona, Spain.
Results of the Option (TOcilizumab Pivotal Trial in Methotrexate Inadequate respONders) trial, the first multinational Phase III study outside of Japan, showed that patients treated with Actemra (either 4mg/kg or 8mg/kg) plus methotrexate achieved a significant and clinically important improvement in the signs and symptoms of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA) compared to patients treated with placebo and methotrexate, a current standard of care.
Nearly half (43.9%) of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients receiving tocilizumab 8mg/kg, in addition to ongoing methotrexate therapy experienced a 50% (ACR50) improvement in symptoms at 24 weeks and more than one fifth achieved a 70% symptom improvement, according to results of a European study presented today at EULAR 2007, the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology in Barcelona, Spain.
Treatment with denosumab 60 mg and 180 mg, with background methotrexate, reduces the progression of bone erosion according to results of a 227 patient-Phase II trial presented today at EULAR 2007, the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology in Barcelona, Spain.
New data presented today at EULAR 2007, the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology in Barcelona, Spain, sheds light on the role of environmental and genetic risk factors in the development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
New data presented today at EULAR 2007, the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology in Barcelona, Spain, suggests that alcohol may protect against rheumatoid arthritis, with three units a week exhibiting protective effects and ten units a week being more protective still. An alcohol consumption of three units per week or more also reduced the risk by smoking or by a genetic predisposition to RA.