Article: Study shows Genentech's cancer fighter Avastin helps sickest patients.

Article: Seeing the sickest patients--and getting paid for ...
Medical Economics;  November 23, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... groups achieve that. "I have the sickest patients in this practice." Every doctor ... physicians who thought they had the sickest patients didn't, and some who weren't ... physicians I thought were seeing the sickest patients:' says rheumatologist Michael Condit ...

Article: Sickest Patients Still Struggle Under New Medicare ...
AScribe Medicine News Service;  April 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... to pay for medicine. However, the sickest patients, who typically have high drug expenditures ... percent over the same period. But the sickest patients, who skipped pills at about twice ... to reduce pill-skipping among the sickest patients," says Harvard Medical School professor ...

Article: HHS orders transplant network to put sickest ...
AP Online;  March 26, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... transplant network to give organs to the sickest patients first, even if they live across the ... new system must give priority to the sickest patients rather than to those who live close ... conceded the system already favors the sickest patients within communities and regions. He ...

Article: FED: Medicare rots while sickest patients pay
AAP General News (Australia);  August 31, 2002 ;     626 words ... ... 00-0000 FED: Medicare rots while sickest patients pay By Graeme Webber SYDNEY, Aug ... is letting Medicare rot while the sickest patients are having to fork out up to $2 ... not being covered by Medicare. Our sickest patients should not be paying almost $2 ...

Article: Network for Heart Transplants to Give Sickest ...
The Washington Post;  July 16, 1998 ;     642 words ... ... allocating hearts to make sure the sickest patients get first crack at available organs ... hearts still will be allocated to the sickest patients within the local area first, then ... policies that give priority to the sickest patients, no matter where they live. The ...

Article: New rules will direct donated livers to sickest ...
AP Online;  March 26, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... allocation system must send organs to the sickest patients first, not those who happen to live ... demanded that it give priority to the sickest patients. It also directed the network to ... centers want a system that puts the sickest patients at the top of the list. On the other ...

Article: Better Care of Sickest Patients Can Actually Save ...
Cancer Weekly;  September 23, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Keywords: Aging, Cancer, Internal Medicine, Oncology, Palliative Care, Center to Advance Palliative Care. This article was prepared by Cancer Weekly editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2008, Cancer Weekly via NewsRx.com.