When the insomnia that we are just not doing, just to quickly go to the "kingdom of Morpheus". And elephants believe, and sheep - and in the end still almost until morning to turn. That would be a universal cure for insomnia. But, unfortunately, it has not come up (if not take pills). But you can make yourself sleep through other effective methods of insomnia.


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Redesigned FamilyDoctor.org Puts AAFP on Cutting Edge of Patient Education

A key resource for family physicians and their patients recently got an extreme makeover -- just in time for 2009. Thanks to a collaboration between the AAFP and multi-platform video distributor AnswersMedia Inc., the Academy's award-winning consumer Web site, FamilyDoctor.org, has a whole new look and a whole new sound.

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Report Assesses Physician Experiences With PQRI

CMS has released a report that examines participation data from its 2007 Physicians Quality Reporting Initiative, or PQRI, and also addresses physicians' frustrations with the program.

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Criticism by Emergency Physician Misses Mark

A recent opinion piece by Jonathan Glauser, M.D., M.B.A., in the December issue of Emergency Medicine News created a loud outcry of "foul" from primary care physicians around the country.

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Influenza Survey Shows 'Sobering' Results

Fewer than one-third of U.S. adults surveyed in a nationwide poll had been vaccinated against seasonal influenza as of mid-November, and more than half of those remaining said they had no intention of getting the vaccine.

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Merck Focusing on Combination Vaccine

Merck & Co. Inc. has stopped production and sales of its monovalent vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella. The manufacturer instead plans to focus on its combination vaccine, MMRII.

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Health Care CEOs Push for Systematic Reform of Health Care

The New America Foundation has formed a coalition of health care leaders to accelerate the pace of national health care reform efforts and to create a system of care that improves quality, enhances access and reduces costs.

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Physicians Who Use EHRs Pay Fewer Malpractice Claims

Physicians who say they can't afford to purchase an electronic health record, or EHR, system may want to evaluate new research that suggests physician practices that use EHRs have fewer paid malpractice claims.

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Explore TransforMED's New Line of Products and Services

Family physicians now have a resource on their side when it comes to tweaking -- or retooling -- their practices to make them more efficient, quality-minded, patient-centered and profitable.

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IOM Proposes Additional Changes to Residents' Duty Hours, Workloads

A recently released report from the Institute of Medicine, or IOM, recommends new restrictions on medical residents' duty hours and workloads, with the goals of minimizing fatigue and maximizing patient safety while maintaining "the rich educational experience necessary to achieve professional competence in the complexities of diagnosis and treatment of patients."

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Annual Cancer Report: Overall Incidence, Death Rates Decline for Men, Women

For the first time since the inaugural annual report on cancer was published in 1998, both incidence and death rates for all cancers combined are decreasing for both American men and women. That's according to the most recent annual report from the American Cancer Society, or ACS; the CDC; the National Cancer Institute, or NCI; and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries.

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