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As you know, the 21.2% Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) cut is expected to take effect for a period beginning on April 1, as Congress has adjourned for the two-week April recess without sending temporary legislation to the President. On March 29, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) notified contractors to hold claims containing [...]
“Watch out, it’ll hurt for a second.” Not only children but also many adults get uneasy when they hear those words from their doctor. And, as soon as the needle touches their skin the piercing pain can be felt very clearly. “After such an experience it is enough to simply imagine a needle at the [...]
MIT neuroscientists have shown they can influence people’s moral judgments by disrupting a specific brain region – a finding that helps reveal how the brain constructs morality. To make moral judgments about other people, we often need to infer their intentions – an ability known as “theory of mind.” For example, if a hunter shoots [...]
The ability to taste and smell can be lost or impaired after a head injury, according to a new study by scientists from the Université de Montréal, the Lucie Bruneau Rehabilitation Centre, as well as the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal. Published in the journal Brain Injury, the investigation established that [...]
Check the end of the report to download the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010 (H.R.4872) as a PDF document. This bill amends President Obama’s recently signed healthcare plan (H.R. 3962 or “Obamacare”). The Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010 officially passed through House of Representatives on 3/21/10 and [...]
Mount Sinai researchers have learned that meta-cognitive therapy (MCT), a method of skills teaching by use of cognitive-behavioral principles, yielded significantly greater improvements in symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults than those that participate in supportive therapy. The study, titled “Meta-Cognitive Therapy,” is now published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Bookmark [...]
Short bursts of physical activity can ease fibromyalgia symptoms. Researchers writing in BioMed Central’s open access journal Arthritis Research & Therapy have shown that encouraging patients to undertake ‘Lifestyle Physical Activity’ (LPA) can markedly increase the average number of steps taken per day and produce clinically relevant reductions in perceived disability and pain. Bookmark on [...]
Offspring of two parents with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder appear more likely to develop the same illness or another psychiatric condition than those with only one parent with psychiatric illness, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The offspring of two parents with psychiatric [...]
People who drink more are also likely to eat less fruit and consume more calories from a combination of alcoholic beverages and foods high in unhealthy fats and added sugars, according to a new study by researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the the U.S. [...]
One of the most common complaints among healthy older adults relates to a decline in memory performance. This decline has been linked to an inability to ignore irrelevant information when forming memories. In order to ignore distracting information, the brain should act to suppress its responses to distractions, but it has been shown that in [...]
