New standards chief 'a timely arrival': Reed Tuckson, MD, brings a community health perspective to organized medicine's highest ranks

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Reed V. Tuckson, MD, is the new group VP for professional standards for the American Medical Assn. He supervises the association's medical standard setting work in ethics, clinical practice, education, science and physician credentials. Tuckson also supervises public health programs of the association. He served as District of Columbia public health commissioner from 1986 to 1990 and improved the working poor's access to medical care.

Officials and employees, Physicians, Medical professions, Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Trade and professional associations, Professional associations, Trade associations, Tuckson, Reed V.

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AMA decries cutting postpartum stay

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Physicians are becoming concerned about the effects of short hospital stays on women and their newborn children. Some insurance companies are requiring that when a birth is normal, a mother and child can return home within 24 hours. Physicians worry that there will not be adequate genetic and metabolic screening of the newborn. Physicians and the American Medical Assn want discharge to be based upon clinical not economic decisions.

Health and allied services, not elsewhere classified, Maternal & Child Health Care, Health aspects, Economic policy, Social policy, Health insurance industry, Hospitals, Gynecologic and obstetric, Gynecologic and obstetric hospitals, Hospital admission and discharge, Mother and infant, Mother-infant relations

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Pediatricians back responsible condom programs

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The American Academy of Pediatrics advocates the distribution of condoms to sexually-active high school students to reduce the incidence of unintended pregnancy and reduce the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. The association believes that abstinence is the best method to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, but that condoms and counseling should be available to teens who are already sexually active.

HEALTH SERVICES, Venereal Disease Prevention, Sexually transmitted diseases, Political activity, Prevention, Distribution, Condoms, Sexually transmitted disease prevention, Pediatricians, American Academy of Pediatrics

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