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Anchor lead: Do mandates from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services improve healthcare? Elizabeth Tracey reports The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, abbreviated CMS, claim that innovations the federal agency instituted saved almost 90,000 lives and billions of …
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Anchor lead: Did the federal government overregulate medical resident work hours? Elizabeth Tracey reports How many hours should a medical or surgical resident work? A new study shows that the restrictive hours imposed by the federal government, compared to a …
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Anchor lead: Does restricting how many hours a medical resident works improve safety? Elizabeth Tracey reports Patient safety was cited some years ago when the federal government stepped in to regulate the number of hours medical residents could work. Now …
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Anchor lead: There’s now proof the HPV vaccine prevents precancerous lesions, Elizabeth Tracey reports HPV vaccination has reduced the rate of HPV infections in young women who have received the vaccine by about 65%, new data from the Centers for …
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Anchor lead: Good news related to the vaccine for HPV, Elizabeth Tracey reports HPV related disease in young women is on the decline among those who’ve received the HPV vaccine, federal data reveal. Maria Trent, an adolescent medicine expert at …
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Anchor lead: Repeated head injury and dementia risk appear linked, Elizabeth Tracey reports Are dementia and repeated head injury, known as TBI, related? Researchers have identified a link between traumatic brain injury and accumulation of proteins also associated with Alzheimer’s …
