Doctors urge: Rescue primary care or work force shortage will mount Making primary care a more attractive specialty must be part of health system reform, physician groups say.
Senate gets early start on health reform plan Sens. Baucus and Kennedy are working with a bipartisan group on the goal of moving a consensus bill through the Senate next year.
GOVERNMENT & MEDICINE Go to section Medicaid pay delays found to squeeze access Health care fraud still a key target of federal False Claims Act Obama taps former Senate chief Daschle to head HHS
PROFESSIONAL ISSUES Go to section Going high profile: Medical boards push transparency Doctor, med society executive honored for decades of service In the Courts - Supreme Court cases on medical issues rare, but crucial
BUSINESS Go to section Go tech go: Championing new health IT Doctors want further scrutiny of Horizon for-profit conversion Technically Speaking - Adopting e-prescribing with an EMR is challenging
OPINION Go to section The promise of the medical home Letters - Arthroscopic surgery has a role, which is more common than skeptics allow
HEALTH & SCIENCE Go to section Kidney stones linked to greater chance of CKD More adults have prediabetes, with patients (and often physicians) unsure who's at risk
Pushing past the placebo Legislating for a new kind of clinical trials
Judging genetic risks Physicians often caught between what patients want and what science offers
Finding the right floor How much should insurers spend on medical care?
Reframing Framingham New evidence prompts another look at cardiovascular risk algorithms
