| American Medical News 1996 Christina Kent |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
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| Advocates: prenatal program off to healthy start. (Healthy Start, a federally funded prenatal health care program) | Health | Christina Kent |
| A long-neglected system strains to respond to a rising threat. (Microbial menaces; includes related article on antibiotic resistance) | Health | Christina Kent |
| AMA launches new attack against tobacco. (American Medical Association; investments in tobacco companies) | Health | Christina Kent |
| AMA reaffirms mandatory HIV testing in pregnancy. (American Medical Association) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Bill seeks equal mental health insurance coverage. (proposed "mental health parity" amendment) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Bill sets moderate course for FDA reform. | Health | Christina Kent |
| Bipartisan push for insurance reform bill. | Health | Christina Kent |
| Boost for insurance reform. (American Academy of Actuaries report; regulation of self-funded health plans) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Breaking the ad ban: pushing kid cocktails? AMA: broadcast ads undermine effort to stop underage drinking.(American Medical Association; Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether liquor and brewing industry television advertisements encourage underage drinking) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Can clinical research thrive (or survive)? (medicine)(part 1) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Clinical trial info on-line; cancer institute posts summaries on the Web. (National Cancer Institute) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Controversial FDA overhaul advances in Congress.(several bills in preparation) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Critics say Wis. welfare reform would limit access to care. (Wisconsin) | Health | Christina Kent |
| 'Dangerous, deadly, scarring:' AMA efforts advance ban on female circumcision; culturally sensitive public education urged. (American Medical Association efforts against female genital mutilation) | Health | Christina Kent |
| D.C. medical society backs single payer as a reform 'option.' (Medical Society of the District of Columbia) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Doctors could feel pinch if Medicaid agreement fails. | Health | Christina Kent |
| Doctor's dream: a stamp to raise funds for breast cancer. (Dr. Balazs Inre Bodai) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Dr. Kessler leaving as FDA chief; strong replacement urged. (David A. Kessler, MD) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Employer survey predicts growing ranks of uninsured. (survey conducted by the Economic and Social Research Institute) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Experts fear 'get-tough' view of drug treatment may backfire. (reductions in addiction treatment funding and services) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Family violence law wins praise from medicine, enforcers. | Health | Christina Kent |
| FDA hears tobacco comments.(US Food and Drug Administration evaluates 61,000 public comments) | Health | Christina Kent |
| FDA urged to keep pushing tobacco control: AMA reaffirms support for regulating nicotine as drug. (Food and Drug Administration; American Medical Association) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Feds act to shed role as guardian of nation's health. (includes related article quoting Philip R. Lee, Assistant Secretary for Health) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Fight over federal agency pits medicine vs. NRA; funding for research on firearms injuries at issue. (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, National Rifle Association) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Food-borne illnesses a growing threat to public health. | Health | Christina Kent |
| Giving patients more prescription info: AMA collaborates on FDA plan for drug guides. (American Medical Association; Medguides) | Health | Christina Kent |
| High-stake bid to curb EPA. (EPA funding and public health) | Health | Christina Kent |
| House calls return - high-tech style. (Call Doc Medical Group Inc.; includes list of guidelines for home care patients) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Immigration bills could create public health havoc. (access to medical care would be denied for illegal immigrants) | Health | Christina Kent |
| It's unanimous: Senate curbs 'drive-through deliveries.' (proposed law to extend insurance coverage for longer hospital stays for infants and new mothers) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Jobs at risk for HIV-infected doctors. | Health | Christina Kent |
| Just say no to tobacco for kids: new FDA rules issued; challenges certain. (Food and Drug Administration) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Kinder, gentler Medicaid reform. (Republican proposal introduced May 22, 1996) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Long-awaited tobacco-control rules get tepid praise.(Department of Health and Human Services' instructions for states on implementing the Synar Amendment) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Market flux creates rocky future for public hospitals. (institutions losing Medicaid recipients to managed care while serving more uninsured patients) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Medical pot: doctors caught between state, federal laws.(medical use of marijuana) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Message to students: give of yourself to community.(advice from Medical Student Section of American Medical Association) | Health | Christina Kent |
| 'Most-litigated disease' impacts public health policy. (AIDS) | Health | Christina Kent |
| New bill asks written parental consent for minors in studies. (Family Privacy Protection Act)(includes related information on adolescents' health risks) | Health | Christina Kent |
| New IOM report calls for boosting use of nurses.(Institute of Medicine) | Health | Christina Kent |
| NIMH spearheads new anxiety education campaign. (National Institute of Mental Health) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Pa. plan ties CEO salary to community health status.(Pennsylvania health plan Crozer-Keystone Health System) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Prevention office a budget-cutting casualty. (federal Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Prevention or policing: home drug detection kit spurs controversy. (FDA regulations affect on Parents' Alert drug-testing kit) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Public gaining AIDS smarts, but misinformation persists. (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)(Henry J. Kaiser Permanente Foundation survey) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Public health outreach in limbo. (effects of budget impasse on public health programs) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Public health programs emerge intact from budget battle.(1996 appropriations) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Report: seatbelts, helmets save lives and health costs. (Department of Transportation) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Should private sector review medical products? | Health | Christina Kent |
| Smoking cessation guidelines successful - if used. (Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Smoking control advocates split over focus on youth. | Health | Christina Kent |
| States pushed to test newborns for HIV. (reauthorization of 1990 Ryan White CARE Act) | Health | Christina Kent |
| The view from Mount Koop. (former surgeon general C. Everett Koop)(Interview) | Health | Diane Gianelli, Christina Kent |
| Tobacco firm pays for failure to warn. (Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co.)(includes related article on smoking statistics) | Health | Christina Kent |
| TV liquor ads draw fire from public health community. (American Medical Association among those who oppose Seagram Americas advertisements) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Welfare reform has health implications for the poor.(Personal Responsibility and Work Act) | Health | Christina Kent |
| Where they stand: health issues take a supporting - but possibly pivotal - role. (1996 presidential elections)(Election '96) | Health | Sharon McIlrath, Diane M. Gianelli, Christina Kent |
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