News For: Peoples Choice Discount MedicalAustralian Medical Students' Association Applauds Funding Boost For General Practice Training, Australia The Australian Medical Students' Association congratulated the federal government on their decision to boost funding to a program that will encourage more medical trainees to undertake a career in general practice. The Pre-Vocational General Practice Placement Program PGPPP is a scheme that gives junior doctors an opportunity to experience general practice in their prevocational years. Suspect medical bills a hot topic with MACo Nine months after starting negotiations, Montana���s county governments, hospitals and law enforcement agencies have deadlocked over who should pay the rising medical bills of people injured in encounters with law enforcement officers. Judge tosses federal claims in parents' medical-rights suit A federal judge Monday threw out part of a lawsuit filed by a Sandy couple who claimed their constitutional right to decide the best course of medical treatment for their son was violated. Rotary Club hears update on medical marijuana The Palm Desert Rotary Club will get an update on medical marijuana at its weekly lunch at 11:30 a.m. today at the Desert Falls Country Club, 1111 Desert Falls Parkway. Los Angeles medical supplier convicted of fraud A medical supplier was convicted Monday of fraudulently billing Medicare more than $1.1 million for wheelchairs that were forced on elderly people who did not need them. Read comments Jones named new CEO at Clear Lake Regional Medical Center Stephen K. Jones, Jr., is the new Chief Executive Officer at Clear Lake Regional Medical Center CLRMC, the largest hospital in the Bay Area. Jones comes to CLRMC from Rio Grande Regional Hospital in McAllen, Texas, where he was CEO for three years. Prior, he was CEO at Southwest Medical Center in Lafayette, Louisiana. UCD Medical Center names new COO Vincent L. Johnson Jr. has been hired as the new chief operating officer for UC Davis Medical Center. UCD Medical Center names Vincent L. Johnson Jr. its chief operating officer. State Medical Association Ponders Greater Scrutiny of Doctors Without Admitting Privileges FORT WAYNE, IN Indiana's NewsCenter --- A patient safety ordinance proposed in Fort Wayne appears to be prompting the Indiana State Medical Association to push harder for oversight of doctors who don't have ties to local hospitals. Jury still out on medical center's progress Reaching a conclusion about progress at Commonwealth Medical Center since the Aliquippa hospital changed hands nine months ago depends in large part on whom you���re talking to. Nephrology institute to be set up in medical college Kannur, Sep 23 : A nephrology institute will be set up in Pariyaram Medical college, the first in Kerala, on the lines of Hirdyalaya at Bangalore, medical college Chairman T K Govindan said. |

