Food Aid Missing Critical Ingredients
As food aid is mobilized in response to the global food price crisis, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns that sending adult food to feed young children will not save them from the risk of malnutrition. Today MSF urged donors to ensure their aid includes special foods for young […]
HHS Commissioned Corps Officers Join Operation Continuing Promise Aboard the USS Boxer in Central America
CDR Izune Hwang, a family-practice physician from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, evaluates patients at Escuela El Higueral, in the Republic of Guatemala, as part of Operation Continuing Promise, the deployment of the USS Boxer to the west coast of Central America. The small […]
HHS Secretary Begins Third Visit to the People’s Republic of China
The Honorable Michael O. Leavitt, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, joins officials from the Shanghai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau to look at goods in a container at the Waigaoqiao Section of the Port of Shanghai. May 12, 2008 […]
HHS Secretary Meets with Chinese Minister of Health, Visits Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Michael O. Leavitt (right) and Josephine Briggs, M.D., the Director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the HHS National Institutes of Health (left), receive a lesson in acupunture techniques from a student at the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, in Shanghai, China. […]
Have you been selected to participate in the Physician Practice Information survey?
The AMA and more than 70 other organizations are conducting a comprehensive multi-specialty survey of America’s physician practices. The results will be used to positively influence national decision makers to ensure accurate and fair representation for all physicians and patients, and to articulate the challenges of running a practice that provides expert patient care, while […]
WJZ-TV Baltimore Surgical Fires Segment Features ASA Advisory
A May 1 WJZ-TV (Baltimore, Md.) investigative report on the occurrence of surgical fires featured the recently released ASA Practice Advisory for the Prevention and Management of Operating Room Fires. ASA member John A. Ulatowski, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Anesthesiology and Critical Care Department at Johns Hopkins Hospital was interviewed for the segment and […]
ASA comments at FDA hearing on fospropofol
The ASA submitted formal comments and testified before the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Anesthetic and Life Support Drugs Advisory Committee (ALSDAC) requesting that the labeling for fospropofol disodium injection 35 mg/ml (fospropofol) include a similar warning to that which is included on the label for propofol. Because fospropofol is a pro-drug of propofol and […]
NPI required for all HIPAA Standard Transactions on May 23, 2008
As of May 23, Medicare FFS will require and send NPI-Only in ALL provider identifier fields for all HIPAA and paper transactions where a provider identifier is required. If you send Medicare a transaction with a Medicare legacy identifier in any of the provider fields, your claim will be rejected. These transactions include all electronic […]
Enterix Inc. Launches Its Point-of-Care Test for Colorectal Cancer Screening
Enterix Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (NYSE: DGX), today announced the availability of the InSure(R) Quik F I T(TM) fecal immunochemical test, a point-of-care version of the company’s lab-based InSure(R) FIT(TM) test, that provides physicians with the sensitivity and specificity of the laboratory-based InSure FIT test. The availability of the CLIA-waived InSure […]
Quest Diagnostics Announces Annual Shareholder’s Meeting Webcast
Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (NYSE: DGX), the leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, will conduct its annual meeting of shareholders on Friday, May 16th at 10:30 am ET. An audio webcast will be accessible through the Investor Relations section of the company Web site at www.questdiagnostics.com/investor . For those unable to listen to the […]