March 11, 2010 04:29 PM EDT

Bill would delay 21% Medicare physician payment cut until Sept. 30

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed legislation, by a vote of 62 to 36, that would delay a planned 21% cut in Medicare physician payments until Sept. 30. The bill moves to the House for further discussion.

On March 2, the Senate passed a separate bill that delayed the payment ...

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March 14, 2010

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"The pace of research and development in diabetes care over the past decade or so has been almost mind numbing..."

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Term ‘type 3 diabetes’ both disputed, supported

Research has shown that diabetes may be associated with dementia in patients with and without Alzheimer’s disease. Diabetes has also been found to increase the risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease by at least 50% in various studies. However, the exact relationship between the two remains unknown. Therefore, there was much interest in the results of a recent French study in which researchers claimed that diabetes was found to be associated with a slow...

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