 Scientific American | National Standards to Rank Physicians Planned New York Times - By REED ABELSON Doctors and health insurers called a tentative truce Tuesday in their long-standing dispute over how health plans rank physicians’ efforts in taking care of patients. Survey: More doctors back universal health care New Initiative Seeks to Standardize And Improve Doctor-Rating Effort |
 dBTechno | Lilly's Alzheimer Drug Enters Phase III Trials eFluxMedia - By Alice Turner Eli Lilly announced that it prepares a phase III trial for its experimental drug for Alzheimer's, LY450139. The IDENTITY Trial - Interrupting Alzheimer's Dementia by EvaluatiNg Treatment of AmyloId PaThologY, is a randomized, ... Lilly Launches Phase III Trial For Treatment Of Alzheimer's Lilly trial will test drug for Alzheimer's |
County has first human WNV case Brookhaven Daily Leader - Details about the patient and other aspects of the case were not disclosed. Also, the Lincoln County case is only the second human case reported in the nation for 2008. Mississippi Confirms First West Nile Virus Case for 2008 Riverside, San Bernardino counties ramp up West Nile vigilance |
 Washington Post | Ignorance Is Bliss, And Then You Get an STD Washington Post - By Courtland Milloy It seems like a lifetime ago, but spring used to be the perfect excuse for me to write lightheartedly about sex. Meeting here focuses on high rate of STDs Sexually transmitted diseases leave mark on teens in central Nebraska |
Vytorin May Not Be Effective Against Heart Disease Associated Content - By Kari Livingston, published Mar 31, 2008 For many Americans with high cholesterol and a family or personal history of heart disease, Vytorin has been the first line of defense against heart disease. The best medicine: New Boulder center devoted solely to preventing ... |
 Pravda | Angioplasty Proves Reasonable Alternative to Bypass Surgery Washington Post - By Amanda Gardner MONDAY, March 31 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with blockages in the left main coronary artery, percutaneous coronary intervention -- PCI, often referred to as angioplasty -- may be a viable alternative to bypass surgery. Stents equivalent to surgery in left main disease ACC: Stents Match CABG Survival At Three Years in Left Main Disease |
 New York Times | Autism's simmering controversy Louisville Courier-Journal - By Laura Ungar • lungar@courier-journal.com • March 31, 2008 As a baby, Austin Pope seemed to be developing normally -- even at an advanced pace, saying 75 words at 18 months. Op-Ed Contributor Inoculated Against Facts Vaccine Court Decision Imperils Children's Health |