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To provide you with critical information on the updated regulations from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Thomson American Health Consultants offers "New EMTALA Regulations: Are They Too Good to be True?" an audio conference on Tuesday, Oct. 21, from 2:30-3:30 p.m., ET.
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"EMTALA: The Essential Guide to Compliance" from Thomson American Health Consultants, publisher of Emergency Medicine Reports, explains how the changes to EMTALA will affect emergency departments and off-campus clinics.
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Emergency physicians (EPs), and physicians in general, have faced enormous tests of their core professionalism and ethical values in recent years. The unionization of resident physicians, the financial pressures of a managed care environment, and the thorny role of the pharmaceutical industry have presented new and difficult challenges for medicine.
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Cephalosporins, macrolides, and fluoroquinolones currently represent foundation antimicrobials for managing common respiratory infections caused by bacterial and/or atypical pathogens.
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When is it safe to sit behind the wheel if youve just had a seizure? Specific seizure-free intervals vary from state to state. In this time-trend study, an analysis was undertaken to determine if lowering the interval from 12 months to 3, as was done in Arizona, increased motor vehicle accident frequency.
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This report confirms previous reports (especially the publications from the World Health Organization and the Nurses Health Study) that the risk of cardiovascular mortality associated with oral contraceptives is confined to smokers.
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The FDA has approved another HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor (statin) for the treatment of elevated cholesterol.
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Ultralow-Dose Estrogen and Bone in Older Women; Effect of Intensity of Oral Anticoagulation in Atrial Fibrillation; Patient Knowledge and Awareness of Hypertension