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  1. UCSF's Sawaya outlines new cervical-cancer screening guidelines and advises clinicians on how to discuss w/ patients. http://bit.ly/7MRxND
  2. "We must lose our fear of the 'R' word, and discuss how, not whether, we should best ration health care." HMS's Truog. http://bit.ly/7wfbvr
  3. Intensity of screening controversy unfortunate, because there's more agreement than disagreement: DFCI's Partridge. http://bit.ly/6BdbbL
  4. Australia’s winter with H1N1: First wave was 18 weeks w/ 3-week peak, existing pandemic mgmt plan an asset: AUS's DoHA. http://bit.ly/8YIubJ
  5. NEJM's Steinbrook: During first 9 mos. of 2010 election cycle, the health sector/insurance industry gave more to Dems. http://bit.ly/8W8k2X
  6. SCOTUS's Bilski v. Kappos decision on process patents will impact health care delivery, research: Kesselheim. http://bit.ly/18ohUT
  7. Senate Finance Committee's CER provisions cede "substantial influence" to medical products industry: Tuft’s Selker. http://bit.ly/2yKejc
  8. Keeping the status quo via a "no" vote on reform would negatively affect those with, w/o insurance: Kellermann, Lewin. http://bit.ly/vF2Qo
  9. New NEJM H1N1 blog, “Viral Insights,” launches; first post by CDC’s Uyeki on oseltamivir for hospitalized patients. http://bit.ly/H8nsd
  10. Sen. Chuck Grassley, in NEJM: The reform proposals pending in Congress "would make a bad situation worse." http://bit.ly/4dv7lp
  11. #SS09 #aha09 Copies of FAIR-HF, HeartMate II trials available at NEJM's AHA booth no. 1317.
  12. #SS09 #aha09 Copies of PACE trial now available at NEJM's AHA booth no. 1317.
  13. Copies of CHAMPION-PCI and CHAMPION-PLATFORM NEJM articles available at AHA booth #1317. #SS09 #aha09
  14. NEJM's Iglehart: Where health care reform push will conclude still anyone's guess. http://bit.ly/1XPHlY
  15. Public option important, but more so are gov't subsidies, regulatory/delivery reform, and paying for it all: Ginsburg. http://bit.ly/4BoVOF
  16. Limit health care spending hikes to GDP growth. How: Change fee-for-service, continue with HIT, primary care- RAND. http://bit.ly/3uLnib
  17. Third NEJM letter describes autopsies of five patients with confirmed H1N1 influenza and observed pathological changes. http://bit.ly/1e4HTd
  18. Second NEJM letter examines whether more H1N1 cases among young due to testing practices or different infection risk. http://bit.ly/3f7sQZ
  19. One NEJM letter describes father's oseltamivir-resistant H1N1 after taking drug preventively following son's diagnosis. http://bit.ly/4pOROk
  20. Israel spent 8% of GDP in 2007 on health care; the U.S. spent 16%. Chernichovsky outlines an Israeli view of reform. http://bit.ly/2cXhAu