In addition, while instability in the health care market, with buyouts and rapid turnover of patients, has focused attention on short-term financial gains, some critics point out that no data exist to show that cost savings from DM can be sustained over the long term. Go to full text. The delegates have twice passed resolutions calling on the AMA to form an entity that could represent physicians in their complex and often frustrating dealings with health plans and other contracting entities. When the final product is done, the proposed guidelines will be published in the Federal Register with a 60-day comment period. Funding for such research, however, is guaranteed a fight in Congress this summer.
Current law bans the use of federal funds for research that destroys or injures embryos.
Stem cell research involves the destruction of human embryos in order to extract the cells that are needed to conduct the experiments. NIH is hoping to fund the research on the stem cells after they are extracted from the embryo. The FSMB data showed disciplinary actions ranging from 9.8 per 1,000 practicing in-state physicians in New Mexico to none for Florida's osteopathic board. And by its count, boards actually took fewer punitive actions in 1998 than in previous years, dropping from 2,803 serious actions in 1995 to 2,731 last year. Only one of the nation's largest states, Ohio, is among the top 10 in disciplinary rates.