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  CME library features up-to-date, searchable, collection of HIV/AIDS CME and CE activities for infectious disease specialists and other physicians interested in HIV and AIDS. The un-biased collection is gathered and updated daily from several major medical informational and educational websites.
   
 
CME Library
Medicare Cuts? Bah! No Need to Panic
A 21.2% Medicare reimbursement cut would be disastrous, but this practice management expert believes it won't happen because of the catastrophic fallout.
Medscape Business of Medicine

Emergency Steps for Your Practice if Medicare Cuts Take Effect
If the 21.2% cut to Medicare reimbursement takes effect, many doctors will have trouble covering overhead and staying in practice. Practice management experts give advice on how to survive.
Medscape Business of Medicine

Senate Delays Medicare Pay Cut Until October 1
If the House concurs and President Obama signs the measure into law, it will be the third time in 4 months that lawmakers have postponed the reduction.
Medscape Medical News

Circumcision May Not Cut HIV Spread Among Gay Men in the West
Although studies in Africa have shown that circumcision can lower the spread of HIV among heterosexuals, it may not do much to prevent infections among gay and bisexual men in Western countries, a new study suggests.
Reuters Health Information

Physicians Say Onerous "Meaningful Use" Requirements Could Make EHR Incentives Meaningless
In one survey, practice administrators said complying with meaningful-use standards would slow physicians down - read, "lower their income."
Medscape Medical News

Tuberculosis Reinfection Rates Are Higher in HIV-Infected Patients
Tuberculosis

Gardasil Protects Against Anal Disease in Young Men Who Have Sex With Men
In a study of young men who have sex with men, Gardasil was protective against anal lesions associated with HPV types 6, 11, 16, and 18.
Medscape Medical News

Elvitegravir Helpful in Resistant HIV
In previously treated HIV patients, the integrase inhibitor elvitegravir suppresses the virus at least as well as ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitors, and at certain doses is actually superior, researchers report in the March 15th issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases
Reuters Health Information

Use of Electronic Prescribing Nearly Tripled in 2009
Thanks in part to federal incentives, roughly 1 in 4 office-based prescribers now transmits scripts from their computer to the pharmacy's computer.
Medscape Medical News

Why US Healthcare Costs Are Out of Control: Two Insiders' Perspectives
Drs. Frank Veith and Zvonimir Krajcer offer half a dozen reasons why US healthcare costs are out of control.
Medscape General Surgery

Medicare Cuts? Bah! No Need to Panic
A 21.2% Medicare reimbursement cut would be disastrous, but this practice management expert believes it won't happen because of the catastrophic fallout.
Medscape Business of Medicine

Emergency Steps for Your Practice if Medicare Cuts Take Effect
If the 21.2% cut to Medicare reimbursement takes effect, many doctors will have trouble covering overhead and staying in practice. Practice management experts give advice on how to survive.
Medscape Business of Medicine

Immunizing Children and Teenagers May Protect Entire Community From Influenza
Study opens up possibility of new strategy in "herd immunity."
Medscape Medical News

Montelukast Reduces Recurrent Wheezing in Infants With Bronchiolitis
Infants with postrespiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis have reduced eosinophil degranulation and fewer episodes of recurrent wheezing after montelukast treatment.
Medscape Medical News

Senate Delays Medicare Pay Cut Until October 1
If the House concurs and President Obama signs the measure into law, it will be the third time in 4 months that lawmakers have postponed the reduction.
Medscape Medical News

Circumcision May Not Cut HIV Spread Among Gay Men in the West
Although studies in Africa have shown that circumcision can lower the spread of HIV among heterosexuals, it may not do much to prevent infections among gay and bisexual men in Western countries, a new study suggests.
Reuters Health Information

Physicians Say Onerous "Meaningful Use" Requirements Could Make EHR Incentives Meaningless
In one survey, practice administrators said complying with meaningful-use standards would slow physicians down - read, "lower their income."
Medscape Medical News

Tuberculosis Reinfection Rates Are Higher in HIV-Infected Patients
Tuberculosis

Invasive Non-Typhoid Salmonellae Becoming Important Pathogen in HIV Patients
Non-typhoid salmonellae

Gardasil Protects Against Anal Disease in Young Men Who Have Sex With Men
In a study of young men who have sex with men, Gardasil was protective against anal lesions associated with HPV types 6, 11, 16, and 18.
Medscape Medical News

   
   
 

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