Society Supports Medicare Meltdown Petition, Encourages Members to Sign As reported in the April 15, 2010 edition of EI, Congress continues to work on finding a long-term solution to the flawed Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula, which results in annual Medicare physician payment cuts that Congress must avert...
NIH Approves Widely Used Stem Cell Lines for Federal Funding The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Tuesday approved 13 additional human embryonic stem cell lines for use in federally funded research, bringing the total number of eligible lines listed on the NIH website to 64...
Society Member Roger D. Cone Elected to National Academy Society member Roger D. Cone, PhD, professor and chair of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine’s Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, was elected as a new member by The National Academy of Sciences...
President Names Pediatrician to Head CMS President Obama last week named Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health professor Donald Berwick as his nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)...
