Mere hours after the Senate pulled off a last-minute repeal of the long problematic Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), panelists at a forum hosted by the National Coalition on Health Care made it clear that while the “doc fix” bill represents a major step forward, it is only one piece of the healthcare reform puzzle. {read more here}

April 15, 2015 — The U.S. Senate on April 14 passed legislation that permanently repeals Medicare’s sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula in a final vote of 92 to 8, just hours before a 21% cut in physician payments under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule would have been implemented. {read more here}

Dr. Julian Bailes, co-director of the NorthShore Neurological Institute in Evanston, Illinois, is pointing at the angry red and vivid yellow blooms on the PET scan of a living brain.  “Compared to normal controls, you see abnormal binding in the areas under the surface of the brain and deeper in the brain, showing abnormal accumulations of tau protein,” he explains. {read more here}

Brain scans with the PET radiopharmaceutical FDDNP of former National Football League (NFL) players who experienced multiple concussions show patterns that are similar to patients who experienced chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), according to an April 6 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. {read more here}