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2012-01-19
What matters in healthcare? Surrogate markers or patients?Crikey (blog)In its latest Croakey update, the Primary Health Care Research and Information Service (better known as PHC RIS) highlights concerns about over-reliance on the use of surrogate markers in health research, practice and policy.
2012-02-06
The HinduRick Santorum Goes After Mitt Romney on Health Care: 'He Should Not Be the ...ABC News (blog)Romney is dead wrong on the issue of the day and he should not be the nominee of the party,” Santorum said in a hotel ballroom across the street from the hospital, adding the issue of health care is “central to our country, central to this race ...Romney Takes Aim at a New Target — SantorumNew York Times (blog)Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney spar ahead of MinnesotaPoliticoMitt Romney now trains fire on Rick Santorum in addition to Newt GingrichBoston.comWall Street Journal (blog) -Washington Post -MinnPost.com (blog)all 9,372 news articles »
2012-01-29
Sacramento woman, 96, gives family the gift of planning her own peaceful deathSacramento BeeSimilarly, advance directives are legal forms allowing people to designate a surrogate to make health care decisions on their behalf, if necessary. Only one-third of Americans have any kind of advance directive in place.and more »
2012-01-31
Healthcare Business News Safety net ERs not at disadvantage on meeting ...ModernHealthcare.comThe fear is that safety net providers—which care for a disproportionate amount of Medicaid and uninsured patients—might be harmed by the two new measures, which look at time to discharge, transfer or held for observation and at time to inpatient ...and more »
2012-01-18
12 things to keep in a safe at home, not at a bankCBS NewsCopies of your important legal documents, including powers of attorney, living wills, and health care proxies -- both for yourself and for anyone else for whom you are designated attorney-in-fact or health care surrogate. Having access to these can ...and more »
2012-02-06
Grim Complaint Against Kaiser HospitalCourthouse News ServiceHector Noval claims that after his father was "sedated for comfort," Frost filed with Kaiser a copy of their father's durable power of attorney for health care, dating from July 1999. He says the power of attorney named him and Frost as their father's ...
2012-02-01
What Do Teachers Do?Huffington Post (blog)I am familiar with the complaints from teachers that they have to be social workers, surrogate parents, counselors, health care providers, nutritionists and more, and I have no doubt that is often true. Crowded classrooms and other factors mean that ...
2012-02-03
Elizabeth Banks Explains Why She Chose SurrogacyPeople Magazine“It helps that other moms had said that once they had their babies, they forgot they were ever pregnant,” she says in the March issue of Women's Health. “So once my focus became the baby and not the pregnancy, it was a very easy decision.and more »
2012-02-02
Brave new way to have a baby: Surrogacy law in IsraelJewish United FundThat is the question that the Israeli High Court grappled with in HCJ 625/10, when a couple with three healthy children-submitted an application, to the Ministry of Health, requesting approval of a surrogacy agreement, in order to try to have a fourth ...
2012-01-22
Disabled patients' wishes ignoredThe Boston GlobeIn light of this month's stunning family court ruling that a woman diagnosed with schizophrenia should undergo an abortion and be sterilized, mental health specialists say the case, while an extreme example, casts light on an often unsettling reality ...and more »
2012-02-06
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Just steps away from the famed Mayo Clinic, Rick Santorum ripped into the Republican presidential front-runner on heath care, saying the plan that Mitt Romney signed into law while the governor of Massachusetts should disqualify him from being the party’s standard bearer...
2012-02-06
Santorum argues that if Romney could cost Republicans the general election if he becomes the nominee.
2012-02-06
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is going after a new foe: former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. Until now, the former Massachusetts governor has focused most of his attention on former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who beat Romney in the South Carolina primary and has been his most formidable opponent so far, despite Santorum’s narrow victory over Romney in the Jan. 3 Iowa ...
2012-02-06
Even as Mitt Romney tries to fend off the continuing challenge from Newt Gingrich and focus his attention on President Obama, he is now being forced to deal with another rival: Rick Santorum.
2012-02-06
The Romney campaign is zeroing in on Rick Santorum as its latest target in the GOP nominating contest.
2012-02-05
With Rick Santorum poised to do well in the Minnesota caucuses, the Romney campaign issues statements attacking him on spending.
2012-01-21
After tackling pensions and health care benefits, Chris Christie is setting his sights on taxes and education reform -- all as the New Jersey governor signals interest in a 2016 presidential run despite sitting out this year's race.
2012-01-27
The Patrick Sorohan Volunteer Guardianship Program at Catholic Charities of Ashtabula County is in search of volunteers in the community to serve as guardians for persons, primarily the frail elderly living at local health care facilities, with little or no financial resources and/or no family or other support system to fulfill the role of surrogate decision maker.
2012-02-06
The heavy influence of the conservative and tea party movements make Minnesota's caucus on Tuesday one of Newt Gingrich’s best—and possibly his only—hope for an outright win in the month of February, which features contests in states favoring Mitt Romney.
2012-02-06
AFTERNOON EDITION T-Paw plays 'low expectations' caucus game for Romney By Brian Lambert | Monday, Feb. 6,2012 I know the suspense heading into Tuesday’s caucuses is intense. But here are a few items to soothe your anxieties. A Politico story, by Juana Summers , reporting from Rochester, says: “With Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum locked in a tight race here, the two are battling for the upper ...
2012-02-04
Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision Making in Health Care: United States, Germany, and Japan: Georgetown U... http://t.co/7tSKDDUs
2012-02-01
Surrogate decisionmaking and other matters. (review of recent work in health care law) (The Best of Bioethics) (... http://t.co/JYwcWVoG
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