Health agencies update

Article Abstract:

The Health Care Financing Administration has forbidden gag rules in managed care plans serving Medicare patients. It plans a similar policy for Medicaid patients. A study sponsored by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse concluded that three different strategies were equally effective alcoholism treatments. A committee of the National Institute of Medicine called for increased spending to prevent and treat sexually transmitted diseases, especially in adolescents. Researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences reported that men with a variation in the gene for vitamin D receptors were one-third less likely to develop prostate cancer requiring surgery.

Health aspects, Sexually transmitted diseases, Laws, regulations and rules, Prevention, Prostate cancer, Managed care plans (Medical care), Vitamin D, Sexually transmitted disease prevention, United States. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

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Patient Pretenders Weave Tangled "Web" of Deceit

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Internet discussion groups and chat rooms have provided fertile ground for people who feign illness. Medical fraud on the Internet exploits the sympathy and sense of community of people who share a disease to satisfy the desires of the fraudulent patient. Similar to Munchausen's syndrome, in which patients fabricate symptoms and undergo extensive medical examinations, testing, and even surgery, Internet medical frauds share stories of symptoms, fabricate seizures, and engage in elaborate deceptions at the expense of the truly-ill. Perpetrators have even faked a child's death to elicit sympathy. Doctors have referred to this condition as virtual factitious disorder.

Psychological aspects, Social aspects, Analysis, Internet, Chat rooms, Impostors and imposture, Impostors, Factitious disorder, Factitious disorders

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Private Venture Galvanizes Public Effort on Human Genome Project

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An accelerated effort to map the entire human genetic code could produce a rough draft by 2001. The Human Genome Project (HGP) is a cooperative, publically funded international program to map the human genome by 2005. Additional funding could more than double the current rate of gene sequencing, and a private corporation will begin a robot-assisted gene mapping project that may produce results more quickly than HGP. Researchers generally agree that a rough map of the human genome should be developed before the mouse, fruitfly, or other research animal is sequenced.

Research, Forecasts and trends, Human Genome Project, Chromosome mapping, Perkin-Elmer Corp.

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