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• Information on How the New ESA REMS Program Will Affect MDS Patients
• March 11, 2010

• On March 24, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will require that all drugs called erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) be prescribed and used under a risk management program, known as a risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS), to ensure the safe use of these drugs.

• Medicare Publishes New Physician Resources Concerning the Consultation Code Elimination and Physician Payment
• March 11, 2010

• The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Medicare Learning Network (MLN) has announced the availability of new and updated resources to assist physicians with coding given the elimination on January 1, 2010 of CPT consultation codes (ranges 99241-99245 and 99251-99255).

• March 2010 Practice Update (part one)
• March 11, 2010

• March Practice Update (part one)

• Congressional Negotiations Continue on Health Reform Legislation; Complex Policy Issues and Procedural Tactics in Play
• March 11, 2010

• Congressional negotiators assembling a health-care overhaul package are considering procedural as well as policy details as they try to obtain the votes needed in both the House and Senate to complete President Obama’s legislative priority.

• Senate Passes Seven Month Extension of Current Medicare Physician Payment; Contact the House of Representatives Now to Stop the 21 Percent Cut
• March 11, 2010

• On March 9, the U.S. Senate passed HR 4213, a bill to extend certain tax policies and stimulate job growth, by a vote of 62-36. The bill also includes a provision that would extend current Medicare physician payment rates until October 1, 2010.

• 2010 Recipient of Minority Scholar Award Will Conduct Clinical Research on Leukemia
• March 9, 2010

• Alison Walker, MD, has been selected to receive the ASH-AMFDP Award, and will begin her research in acute myeloid leukemia in July of this year.

• Critical Recommendations Unveiled to Respond to National Public Health Crisis: Deep-Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
• March 9, 2010

• Three critical recommendations from a national workshop have been released to address deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), a growing public health problem estimated to affect nearly 1 million Americans each year.

• March is DVT Awareness Month
• March 9, 2010

• ASH continues to work with several advocacy coalitions and the Department of Health and Human Services on efforts to increase public awareness of DVT as a major public health problem.

• Persons With Quebec Platelet Disorder Have a Tandem Duplication of PLAU
• March 8, 2010

• Quebec platelet disorder (QPD) is an autosomal dominant bleedingdisorder linked to a region on chromosome 10 that includes PLAU, the urokinase plasminogen activator gene. QPD increases urokinase plasminogen activator mRNA levels, particularly during megakaryocyte differentiation, without altering expression of flanking genes.

• Researchers: AIDS Virus Can Hide In Bone Marrow (Associated Press)
• March 8, 2010

• The virus that causes AIDS can hide in the bone marrow, avoiding drugs and later awakening to cause illness, according to new research that could point the way toward better treatments for the disease.

• ASH Announces 2010 Scholar Award Winners
• March 4, 2010

• (WASHINGTON) – The American Society of Hematology (ASH) announces the 2010 recipients of its Scholar Awards. The program is designed to support hematologists who have chosen a career in research by providing partial salary or other support during that critical period required for completion of training and achievement of status as an independent investigator.

• Medicare Physician Payment Cut Averted Through March 2010
• March 2, 2010

• The 21 percent Medicare physician payment cut that began March has been stopped. After much delay, the Senate passed legislation (HR 4691) that extends the CY 2009 Medicare physician payment level through the end of March. Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY), who had prevented passage of this measure, backed down late March 1, allowing passage of the legislation.

• The Interconnectedness of Many Diseases Leads to the Bone Marrow...
• March 1, 2010

• There was a time when we thought we understood disease-damaged tissue. Take for example diabetic retinopathy, one of the most important causes of visual loss worldwide. In the case of non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy, we were taught that chronic hyperglycemia led to vascular changes resulting in retinal injury, ischemia, and acellular retinal capillaries.

• Microvesicles in CLL: A New Form of Tumor and Stromal Cell Communication
• March 1, 2010

• Over the past decade a theme has emerged identifying the tumor microenvironment as something essential to preserving leukemia cell survival. This is particularly true in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), where spontaneous apoptosis of tumor cells occurs when the tumor cells are removed from the microenvironment.

• Setting Sights on a Bad Actor
• March 1, 2010

• Myeloid cell leukemia-1(Mcl-1) protein is a member of the Bcl-2 family of apoptotic regulatory proteins that is dysregulated in a variety of hematopoietic malignancies, including multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and mantle cell lymphoma.

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