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  1. Quick clinics and health kiosks are taking off at airports
  2. Bulletproof bylaws: Maintaining the right to protect doctors -- and patients
  3. California appeals court rules against insurer's rescission practices
  4. IOM panel seeks program to evaluate research, guidelines
  5. Study questions impact of quality report cards
  6. UnitedHealth faces stiff fines in California
  7. Parity, genetic privacy bills face snags
  8. Medicare Advantage sales tactics draw fire as Senate panel investigates
  9. Medical identity theft is often an "inside job"
  10. Lawsuit hits medical access post-Katrina
  11. Washington state doctors, physical therapists battle over referrals
  12. AMA analysis reaffirms: Tort reforms work
  13. More schools teaching spirituality in medicine
  14. Rules aim for better patient safety through confidential error reports
  15. Older physicians trim hours in lieu of retiring
  16. Rumor control: How to battle online misinformation
  17. CMS metric may prompt excessive antibiotic use
  18. California medical students to get court-ordered tuition refunds
  19. Physicians can become entangled in DME fraud
  20. Medicare quality reporting called a promising start
  21. Students lose empathy for patients during medical school
  22. Is their integrity on the line when doctors pitch products?
  23. Getting paid for prevention: Physicians facing coding challenges
  24. New Web site on imaging safety draws criticism
  25. Medicare pay bill: Raises to replace cuts through 2009
  26. Aetna launches personalized health search engine
  27. Missouri Supreme Court: Doctors can sue if hospitals ignore bylaws in privileging issues
  28. Motivating the mediocre: Getting the maximum out of someone who's giving you the minimum
  29. Latest Medicare projections renew alarm on long-term sustainability
  30. Similar drug-name pairs nearly double 2004 tally
  31. Patients generally pleased with hospital care
  32. Online feedback site adds doctor category
  33. More physicians backing national coverage -- study
  34. Crimeproof your practice: How to improve office safety
  35. Advanced-practice nurses seek wider scope in 24 states
  36. Medicare disease-management pilot faces closure over costs
  37. U.S. report finds sluggish increases in quality of care
  38. Walk-ins welcome, but only if they're healthy
  39. Doctor-staffed retail clinics to open
  40. Boomer loyalty: Insurers draw on a little help from their friends to market pre-Medicare coverage
  41. Hospital told to check bylaws on exclusive deals
  42. Foiling a fake (book excerpt: Charlatan)
  43. Lawyers' misconduct triggers new liability trials
  44. Baby boomer time bomb: Too many aging patients, too few geriatricians
  45. Physicians examine the role of annual checkups in prevention
  46. Calculate your ideal patient load: How to strike the correct balance
  47. Rulings limit patients' ability to sue device firms, drugmakers
  48. Doctor disciplinary actions down for 3rd year
  49. Harvard offers discount on med school tuition
  50. Hospitalized kids found at risk for drug errors
  51. Health plans say they'll risk losing members to protect profit margins
  52. Study: Med schools can boost rural physician supply
  53. Med schools asked to shun drug firm freebies
  54. Misfortune telling: Folding together data to forecast your patients' health futures
  55. E-prescribing campaign aims at patients to reach doctors
  56. Social networking etiquette: Making virtual acquaintances
  57. Twilight of the beeper: Today's technology offers other ways of keeping connected
  58. Google enters personal health record market
  59. Formula for rationing care: Task forces plan for disaster
  60. AMA encourages future physicians
  61. Gearing up for a graying generation: Training more doctors in geriatrics skills
  62. Revitalizing dead space: Finding an innovative place for your practice
  63. More Americans find insurance pays for visits to retail clinics
  64. FDA drug safety review to start with Medicare
  65. Patients rarely use online ratings to pick physicians
  66. Medical schools on target to reach enrollment goals
  67. Minorities underrepresented in California doctor work force
  68. AMA meeting: Physicians demand greater oversight of doctors of nursing