| American Medical News 1996 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
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| $1.7 million distributed in new AMA-ERF donations. (American Medical Association Education and Research Foundation; 1996) | Health | |
| 9 public officials receive AMA Nathan Davis Awards. (American Medical Association recognizes government leaders' contributions to U.S. health) | Health | |
| A changing group practice market: new head of MGMA describes his plans for his new role. (Thomas L. Adams; Medical Group Management Association)(Interview) | Health | |
| Adverse reaction. (pharmacists' role in preventing physician prescribing errors) | Health | Claudia Morain |
| A dysfunctional system may be adding to your stress. | Health | Gigi Hirsch |
| After big Senate win, time to 'stay the course:' Senate's 100-0 vote for Kassebaum-Kennedy a step in the right direction. (Kassebaum-Kennedy reform bill) | Health | |
| AIDS settlement offer: a hard choice for hemophiliacs. (patients infected by HIV-tainted blood product offered about $100,000 each by drug company defendants)(Bayer AG; Baxter International Inc.; Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Inc.; and Alpha Therapeutics Inc., a division of Japan's Green Cross) | Health | |
| Alcohol dependence a growing problem for women. | Health | |
| AMA and Joint Commission - a new relationship? (American Medical Association, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations)(Column) | Health | Raymond Scalettar |
| AMA delegates face a full slate of policy proposals. (American Medical Association House of Delegates) | Health | |
| AMA house makeup, elections among council report topics. (American Medical Association) | Health | |
| AMA: How it works: A quick guide to how members can have their say in AMA policy-making.(Editorial) | Health | |
| AMA president: expand choice, save health system. (American Medical Association; Daniel H. Johnson Jr.) | Health | |
| AMA, RWJ Foundation target youth binge drinking.(American Medical Association, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) | Health | |
| AMA's violence report card: nation gets poor grades again. (American Medical Association; AMA National Report Card on Violence) | Health | |
| AMA vows to bring science into late-term abortion debate. (American Medical Association House of Delegates) | Health | |
| A new approach for a new health care system.(whole image negotiation) | Health | Leonard Marcus |
| Another dismal report card. (National Report Card on Violence presented by the American Medical Association)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Antitrust reform: give physician-run networks a realistic shot at competing with health plans owned by insurers. (rule-of-reason standard)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Antitrust relief: recent antitrust reforms mark both a new opportunity for physicians and a major victory for the AMA.(Editorial) | Health | |
| A progress report: AMA & MGMA alliance.(American Medical Assn.; Medical Group Management Assn.)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Are your patients satisfied? It's important you know.(service for physicians' patients)(Column) | Health | Janice G. Cunningham |
| Armpit temperature as accurate as rectal temperature. | Health | |
| A special brand of know-how. (American Medical Association successfully lobbies for change in text of federal legislation)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Associations need to show team-based leadership now. (Medical Group Management Association trying to help managers, doctors)(Column) | Health | Thomas L. Adams |
| A step forward on reform.(health reform legislation in Congress)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Bad deal: big tobacco wants to dodge FDA oversight, and do it on the cheap. (Philip Morris Inc.; measures to stop underage tobacco usage; Food and Drug Administration)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Best delivery time different for single, multiple births. | Health | |
| Beyond the ballot.(physicians in public office)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Beyond tort reform.(Column) | Health | |
| Bill may boost family costs for nursing homes. (proposed federal legislation) | Health | Harris Meyer |
| Bottom line: value: how a recently approved reorganization of the Federation of Medicine will benefit you.(recommendations of the American Medical Association House of Delegates)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Cancer center addresses emotions of genetic testing.(Yale Cancer Center) | Health | |
| Cancer drugs to get speedier approval from FDA.(Food and Drug Administration) | Health | |
| Cancer risk found higher for uranium plant neighbors.(Fernald uranium processing plant near Cincinnati, Ohio) | Health | |
| Change of heart? (rising discrimination against international medical graduates) | Health | Anne Stein |
| Child-resistant packages cut accidental deaths by 45%. | Health | |
| Cholesterol drugs tied to cancer in rats; link questioned. | Health | |
| Chronic conditions a huge burden on health spending. | Health | |
| Civil rights and intentional interference awards voided.(physicians' cases in Indiana) | Health | |
| CME moves from textbooks to CD-ROM. (continuing medical education)(includes related article on getting credit for CD-ROM medical courses)(includes list of CD-ROM products) | Health | Robert Hogan |
| Conversion to paperless records may not be that hard. (medical records) | Health | James E. Palen |
| Court-assisted ethicide; two courtroom decisions on physician-assisted suicide undermine the ethical standard of 'First, do no harm.'(Editorial) | Health | |
| Creating an integrated delivery system: keys to success. (hospital administrators, physicians should cooperate when forming joint ventures)(Column) | Health | Jeremy N. Miller |
| Cultural exposure may influence Alzheimer's prevalence. | Health | |
| 'Dating' can be expensive, but it doesn't have to be.(physician group mergers) | Health | Ken E. Mack |
| Delegates face resolutions at AMA Interim Meeting. (summary of Resolutions for Dec. 1996 meeting of American Medical Association House of Delegates) | Health | |
| Dentists, CDC urge team approach against oral cancer.(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and dentists groups' August 1996 meeting on oral cancer) | Health | Karen Titus |
| Doctors and disability insurance: the love affair is over. (changes in doctors' insurance policies) | Health | William L. Pollock |
| Doctors, lawyers called to support world human rights. (50th anniversary of the Doctors Trial at Nuremberg) | Health | |
| Doctors shouldn't discount risks to children of alcoholics. | Health | Richard A. Yoast |
| Doctors should remember the need for humanity. (doctor-patient relationships)(Column) | Health | Eric Anderson |
| Don't feel guilty - health care is better than ever.(physicians should not be dismayed by reports that only medical costs have risen)(Column) | Health | Robert R. Goodin |
| Don't rush to judgement on work force ratios.(specialist versus generalist physicians)(Column) | Health | John J. Whyte, Anthony L. Filly |
| Dr. Bristow continues the call for harmony, dialog. (outgoing American Medical Association president Lonnie R. Bristow)(Annual Meeting News) | Health | |
| Dr. Seward: AMA ready to meet the challenges facing it. (American Medical Association executive vice president P. John Seward)(Transcript) | Health | |
| Dr. Todd looks back at landmarks, land mines, and 'greatness of the AMA.' (former American Medical Association executive vice president James S. Todd)(Annual Meeting News)(Interview) | Health | Mary O'Connell |
| Drug benefit firms under scrutiny, but still growing. | Health | Borzo. Greg |
| Effective counseling for teens takes planning, empathy. | Health | Viking Hedberg |
| Ending the blame game; an open constructive approach is the better way to improve patient safety.(Editorial) | Health | |
| Enlist against tobacco: it's the right thing to do and it's even fun.(Physicians for a Tobacco-Free America)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Ensuring confidentiality important in treating teens. (includes list of information sources) | Health | Patricia Booth Levenberg |
| Environmental concerns high for border residents.(Arizona-Mexico border) | Health | |
| Equal partners: September is Women in Medicine Month; it is a yearly reminder to consider the question, "What is the status of women in the medical profession?"(Editorial) | Health | |
| Ethics for a new era. (ethics institute launched by the American Medical Association)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Famed transplant surgeon ready for criminal trial.(John Najarian) | Health | |
| FDA reassures epilepsy patients worried about drug.(Dilantin) | Health | |
| Fine tuning the FDA. (Food and Drug Administration)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Fiscal crises may force hospitals to deny trauma care. | Health | |
| Four scientists honored with City of Medicine awards. | Health | |
| General PO provides menu of services to members. (Massachusetts General Physicians Organization) | Health | |
| Getting health insurance remains a problem for millions. (1995 report shows widespread health care system problems) | Health | |
| Getting on the same track.(Congress of Medicine/Public Health Initiative in Chicago, IL)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Give the patients what they want.(customer service and physicians' office staff) | Health | Patricia Zeff |
| Good practice management often missing in mergers. (physician groups should determine quality of daily administration before signing deals)(Column) | Health | Andrea Waxler |
| Government: the dull, the drab, the deep.(networking for physicians) | Health | |
| Guidelines sought for hospitals on health care for poor. | Health | |
| Gulf War Syndrome symptoms duplicated. | Health | |
| Health costs down, managed care up as public concern. (surveys of patients and doctors) | Health | |
| HMOs put brakes on hospital use, costs in California. (includes related articles neonatal services and health outcomes for the aged poor) | Health | |
| Hospital responsible for physicians' negligence.(legal cases) | Health | |
| How to balance financial security, emotional needs. (financial planning)(Expert's Corner)(Column) | Health | Judith A. McGee |
| How to build a foundation of rapport with patients. (medical workers should show caring, thoughtfulness)(Column) | Health | Susan Keane Baker |
| How to find on-line support groups. (electronic medical discussion groups) | Health | |
| How to remove wedges between patients, doctors.(includes related article on enhancing relationships) | Health | Jayne Oliva |
| How to responsibly manage employee retirement plan.(ensuring compliance with Employee Retirement Income Security Act as an employer) | Health | Jerry Foster |
| How to talk to pregnant patients about risky behaviors. | Health | Linda Bresolin |
| Humana hands D.C. HMO challenges to Kaiser. (Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States Inc. to acquire Group Health Association Inc. from Humana Health Care Plans; Washington, D.C. health maintenance organization)(includes related article on George Washington University hospital and health plan) | Health | Peter MacPherson |
| Inactive polio vaccine may not be cost effective. | Health | |
| In AMA's youth survey: 20% say they drive drunk. | Health | |
| Independent contractor or employee - the IRS view. (how employers can withstand government scrutiny of tax status of workers) | Health | A.J. Cook |
| Industry goes all out to stop curbs on chlorine in water. | Health | |
| Information management key to future operating room. | Health | Ann Louise Truschel |
| Issues to consider in testing for breast cancer genes. | Health | Linda Bresolin |
| JAMA, Glaxo Wellcome create HIV/AIDS site on WEB. (Journal of the American Medical Association; World Wide Web) | Health | |
| JAMA highlights hypertension: studies suggest need for new approaches to chronic problem.(summaries of three articles from Journal of the American Medical Association May 22, 1996 special issue on hypertension/high blood pressure) | Health | |
| Journals offer global approach to infectious diseases. (medical journals cooperate to publish articles) | Health | |
| Judgments reversed in patient suicide. (reversal of judgements in favor of a nurse and a physician)(Medicolegal Decisions) | Health | |
| Keeping the lead in ethics. (updating the American Medical Association's Code of Medical Ethics)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Laparoscopes, lasers may transform cardiac care. (minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass surgery; transmyocardial revascularization)(includes related article on alternatives to heart transplant surgery) | Health | Lauren Philips |
| Lasker awards presented to 7 medical researchers. (1996 Albert Lasker awards) | Health | |
| Legislators we know - we need to know regulators. (lobbying efforts by physicians)(Column) | Health | Gary F. Kreiger |
| Little danger from sex after heart attack. | Health | |
| Loss of spirit yields to renewed joy in an ordinary life.(First Person)(Column) | Health | Richard V. Ohmart |
| Making sure your voice is heard: the AMA advanced medicine's key issues on Capitol Hill this year and is primed to continue the work in 1997.(1996 legislation record benefits patients and physicians)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Managed care translates to 'let the patient beware.'(Column) | Health | Leonard Laster |
| Many children receive growth hormones for social reasons. (only 58% of patients receiving treatment fit classical diagnosis) | Health | |
| Many don't want to know if they have breast-cancer gene. (study conducted by doctors at Georgetown University Medical Center) | Health | |
| Market propels nation's oldest hospital into partnership.(Pennsylvania Hospital joins University of Pennsylvania Health System) | Health | Vida Foubister |
| Maternal obesity doubles risk for neural tube defects. | Health | |
| Measuring outcomes: tracking patient response to resource use can help make managed care pay.(includes related article on group practices getting started on outcomes assessment) | Health | |
| Medical boards, legislatures expand view of pain control. | Health | Diane M. Ginanelli |
| Medical films win 'Freddies' in international contest.(International Health and Medical Film Competition) | Health | |
| Medicare, physician pay among board report topics.(review of medical reports to go before American Medical Association House of Delegates) | Health | |
| Medicare 'surgery' ahead for RBRVS. (resource-based relative value scale; proposed changes to Medicare physician payment system) | Health | Sharon McIIrath |
| Medication improves autism symptoms, studies show. | Health | |
| Medicine's voice is the key to reform. (American Medical Association policies incorporated into health insurance legislation passed by Congress)(Editorial) | Health | Daniel H. Johnson Jr. |
| Miscarriage, abortion raise breast cancer risk slightly. | Health | |
| More testing in elderly leading to more treatment. | Health | |
| Most homicides, suicides done with cheap handguns. | Health | |
| Mother's RNA levels predict fetal HIV transmission risk. | Health | |
| New approach needed to restore system's balance. (balanced-integrated thinking in healthcare)(Column) | Health | Leonard Marcus |
| New immigration law changes IMG hiring requirements.(international medical graduates) | Health | Carl Shusterman |
| New wording proposed for health plan benefit language. | Health | |
| New Yorkers support assisted suicide - for others. | Health | |
| N.J. sees 50% jump in workers without health insurance. | Health | |
| No agreement on solutions to issue of GME funding. (negotiations between educators and the House Ways and Means Committee about graduate medical education funding) | Health | Charles Culhane |
| No second class care: AMA sets standard of zero tolerance of racial or cultural discrimination in medical treatment.(American Medical Association)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Obstacles seen in physician use of guidelines. (practice guidelines) | Health | Linda O. Pragner |
| Off to the races: doctors, spouses vie for public office.(Election '96) | Health | |
| Oklahoma City blast data can improve building design. | Health | |
| Ontario's cost-cutting fervor linked to physician exodus.(Savings and Restructuring Act could provoke Canadian doctors' emigration) | Health | David Woods |
| Oregon officials eye cutbacks in Medicaid coverage. | Health | |
| Oregon's silver lining. (passage of physician-assisted suicide measure has encouraged better end-of-life care) (includes related article on supportive care services) | Health | Flora Johnson Skelly |
| Over-the-border drugs. (Mexican pharmacies) | Health | |
| Pa. Medical Society issues ultimatum on tort reform. (Pennsylvania) | Health | Janice Perrone |
| Patient advocacy gives gatekeepers liability protection. (physicians) | Health | |
| Patient by proxy. (Munchausen by proxy syndrome)(includes related article on case encountered by Dr. Robert Daum) | Health | Janice Rosenberg |
| Patients don't always reveal their sexual orientation. (effects on medical diagnosis and treatment) | Health | |
| Pay rules for teaching physician punish everyone.(My Opinion)(Column) | Health | William E. Golden |
| 'Pharmaceutical care' touted as way to cut drug errors. (counseling services to enhance patient care) | Health | Sandra Lee Breisch |
| Physically fit, psychologically stressed.(physicians' mental health) | Health | Flora Johnson Skelly |
| Physician extender can enhance your practice. (physician assistant or certified registered nurse practicioner)(Expert's Corner)(Column) | Health | Sandra E.D. McGraw |
| Physician-mayor fights for nation's toughest smoking ban.(Alfred Muller, mayor of Friendship Heights, MD) | Health | Janet Firschein |
| Physicians identify access as medicine's most urgent issue. (availability of care tops concerns for first time in survey) | Health | |
| Physicians, medical society receive AMA awards. (American Medical Assn.) | Health | |
| Physicians slow to update treatment plans. | Health | Jaan Kangiaski |
| Physician won malpractice case, but still lost a lot.(personal narrative) | Health | Eric Anderson |
| Plan ahead for smooth closure of your practice.(physicians' preparations for retirement) | Health | Elizabeth Woodcock |
| Poll shows Americans split over gun safety issues. | Health | |
| Potentially deadly drug combination still being taken.(Seldane and antibiotics or antifungals) | Health | |
| Practice valuation shows how healthy your business is. (determining competitive position of medical practice) | Health | Judy Capko, Tom Lyman |
| Private group of AIDS experts work to update clinic guides. | Health | Claude Morain |
| Promising new drug results buoy AIDS conference. (research by Merck and Co. discussed at Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections) | Health | |
| Proposed immigrant care cuts threaten everyone.(Column) | Health | E. Richard Brown |
| Protecting patients in pain: a new coalition is fighting assisted suicide while also working to improve end-of-life care. (medical groups combine to promote training, ethics, information)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Protecting your assets ... before it's too late.(financial planning for physicians) | Health | Robert D. Gillen |
| Public, physicians voice positive views of profession. (annual survey about the medical profession commissioned by the American Medical Association) | Health | |
| Public, private health plans readjust for enrollees' health risks.(includes related article on clinical value for risk adjusters) | Health | Rachel Kreir |
| Publishing proposal should pitch book's premise, promise.(Column) | Health | Viriginia McCullough |
| Quality, clarity of proposal key to publishing book.(Expert's Corner)(Column) | Health | Virginia McCullough |
| Rating the raters. (rating medical Web sites that rate other Web sites) | Health | |
| Reaching critical mass: specialty capitation can work - if you have enough volume and management expertise to track it.(specialty physicians' treatment of patients under capitated health plans) | Health | Larry Stevens |
| Ready: patients at risk from domestic violence need physicians they can confide in for help.(Editorial) | Health | |
| Reduced benefits can mean more pay delinquencies.(reduction of health care benefits may increase patient payment delinquencies for physicians' practices) | Health | Michael J. Berry |
| Reflections on 'moral crisis' gripping medical profession.(American Medical Association House of Delegates Annual Meeting, December 1995)(Transcript) | Health | |
| Reliable connection. (American Medical Association's information services)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Remove gag rules.(health plan contracts)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Rep. Johnson wins re-election in a nail-biter; state legislatures add physician, spouse members. (Connecticut's Nancy L. Johnson prevails in November 1996 congressional elections) | Health | Katherine Schied, Artye Sidebotham |
| Report seeks prevention as anti-infection weapon. | Health | |
| Reports, resolutions await delegates at Interim Meeting. (American Medical Association's House of Delegates to consider policies in December 1996) | Health | |
| Residents should know they have an advocate in AMA. (American Medical Association Resident Physician Section)(Column) | Health | John Whyte |
| Responsibility. (television advertising for liquor)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Riding herd on injuries. (Parkland Memorial Hospital's trauma center; the Greater Dallas Injury Prevention Center, Dallas, Texas) | Health | Peter MacPherson |
| Ruling upheld; Medicaid must fund some abortions. | Health | |
| Rumblings of tort reform being heard in British Isles. (procedures for medical negligence cases) | Health | Paul R. McGinn |
| Safety-centered care: projects take corrective, rather than preventive, view of patient injuries.(includes related article on medication errors) | Health | Linda O. Pager |
| Seal of approval.(the American Medical Association's pilot project to establish quality standards for physicians)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Security of medical records deserves close scrutiny.(Medical Records Confidentiality Act) | Health | Charles J. Okstein |
| Seeking strategies against the stresses of medicine. (1995 Physicians Health Services National Conference on physicians and stress) | Health | Shirley Moskow |
| Several tools are available to help diagnose depression.(clinical depression, major depressive disorder) | Health | Larry S. Soldman |
| Short-term antihypertensive used despite FDA advice. (oral or sublingual administration of short-term nifedipine capsules for hypertensive emergencies and pseudoemergencies) | Health | |
| Shut in, but not shut out: the return of the physician house call will increase access to care for millions of patients.(Editorial) | Health | |
| Siege relief.(public health system in the US)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Six simple steps to running a successful practice.(medical practice management) | Health | Judy Capko, Tom Lyman |
| Socialized care wrong? 'Corporatized' not much better.(Column) | Health | Robert M. Tenergy Jr. |
| Solo practice: down, not out. (self-employed doctors) | Health | Julie Johnson |
| Some cruise travel-related diarrhea is preventable. | Health | |
| So you say you're working too hard? Well, recuse me!(Other Opinion)(Column) | Health | Ronald P. Spark |
| Special voices in the House of Medicine.(American Medical Association special sections) | Health | |
| St. Paul looking to Old World for new markets. (St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co.; marketing risk management insurance in Europe) | Health | Paul R. McGinn |
| Studies track treatment of HIV-infected newborns. | Health | |
| Study: adult whopping cough badly underestimated. (study conducted by Kaiser Permanente Medical Group) | Health | |
| Study: drug approval faster in U.S. than Germany, Japan. | Health | |
| Study links implantable insulin pump with quality of life. (diabetes therapy comparison between insulin pump and multiple daily injections) | Health | |
| Study: one channel blocker may trigger heart problems. (short-acting calcium channel blocker isradipine) | Health | |
| Study says patients can meditate hypertension away. | Health | William Clements |
| Success of any structure lies in benchmarks to excellence.(Expert's Corner)(Column) | Health | Robert C. Bohlmann |
| Success unclear for long-term-care plan experiment.(Partnership for Long-Term Care) | Health | Rachel Kreler |
| Suicide acceptable on operatic stage, not in real life.(physician-assisted suicide)(Column) | Health | Herbert Rakatansky |
| Survey asks Wash. doctors about suicide assistance.(Washington state) | Health | |
| Survey shows doctors forsaking independence for salaries.(Expert's Corner)(Column) | Health | Joseph Hawkins |
| Systems best weapon against human error in medicine.(Column) | Health | Richard Stahlhut, John Gosbee |
| System under siege. (public health) | Health | |
| Texas doctors fighting Medicaid HMO plan. (health maintenance organization)(includes related article on John Peter Smith Hospital) | Health | Janet Firshein |
| The case for educated managers - and physicians.(Column) | Health | Thomas L. Adams |
| The evolving doctor: learning to share power. | Health | Barry C. Dorn |
| The medical story on page one (and how it gets there); a behind-the-scenes look at how AMA educates the public about the latest news in medical science.(Editorial) | Health | |
| The price of a physician practice.(Center for Healthcare Industry Performance Studies' 1995 Physician Practice Acquisition Resource Book) | Health | Carson F. Dye, William O. Cleverley, Patrick J. Knott |
| The smoke hasn't cleared; while you wait for FDA tobacco controls to take effect, you can still do much to help patients quit.(physicians' anti-smoking campaign; Food and Drug Administration)(Editorial) | Health | |
| The view from Mount Koop. (former surgeon general C. Everett Koop)(Interview) | Health | Diane Gianelli, Christina Kent |
| Through greatest adversity comes greatest progress.(Medical Group Management Association Perspective)(Column) | Health | Robert L. Boyle Jr. |
| Tobacco company rebuts its workers' affidavits. (Philip Morris) | Health | |
| Transforming Medicare.(American Medical Association plan for changing system)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Treadmill burns calories faster than other machines. | Health | |
| Turkish physicians part of system of torture: study.(Physicians for Human Rights survey) | Health | |
| Using family partnership strategies for asset protection. | Health | Ronald J. Paprocki |
| Visit the AMA home page. (American Medical Association site on the World Wide Web)(Editorial) | Health | |
| Wash. court orders review of 'company doctor' case. | Health | |
| Well-chosen passwords enhance security of records. (computer passwords)(Expert's Corner)(Column) | Health | Charles J. Okstein |
| What's in a drug name? Time, money, lots of market tests. (pharmaceutical branding) | Health | David Woods |
| When does 'health eating' suggest an eating disorder?(Column) | Health | David S. Rosen |
| When is a memory not a memory? 'Recovered memories' of child abuse have sent people to prison. But some experts now doubt the value of such accounts in addressing the therapeutic needs of patients.(includes related article on recovered memory cases) | Health | Lynn Lamberg |
| When patients die.(impact on physicians) | Health | Janice Rosenberg |
| Your care may be judged by the quality of your documentation.(physician documentation techniques)(Column) | Health | Susan Keane Baker |
| Your private sector advocate.(American Medical Association responds to managed care and other changes)(Editorial) | Health | Barbara Bolsen |
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