By Shari Rudavsky http://www.indystar.com Health clinics located in retail businesses would be subject to greater state scrutiny, have to install separate entrances and train all staff in cardiopulmonary resuscitation under proposed legislation that aims to set new standards for the facilities. Among other measures, the state Senate bill also would mandate that a patient’s primary-care […]

By Allison Berry / Staff Writer http://www.dailynexus.com Due to an editing error, this article originally stated that the Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, UCLA and UCSD medical schools are considering increasing enrollment next year. In actuality, the schools just participated in a survey on the matter. The Nexus regrets the error. Several prominent medical schools have reported plans […]

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Dallas Business Journal http://www.bizjournals.com/ A house bill that passed the Texas Legislature in 2003 is now receiving credit for getting emergency physicians back into the ER. The Texas College of Emergency Physicians held a press conference in Austin on Tuesday, thanking lawmakers for the passage of House Bill 4 six years ago — a move […]

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Aaron S. Kesselheim, M.D., J.D., and David M. Studdert, LL.B., Sc.D. http://content.nejm.org/ The U.S. Supreme Court is currently considering the case of Wyeth v. Levine, whose central question is whether approval of a pharmaceutical product’s label by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should protect the manufacturer from litigation by patients alleging that they were […]

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