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Contents
| SEPTEMBER 2015 |
DEPARTMENTS
BUSINESS OF MEDICINE 12
LEGAL EASE 16
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS 23
FINANCE 25
PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT 26
CME EVENTS 27
LOCAL NEWS 29
FEATURES
ST. CHARLES HOSPITAL PURSUES SYNERGIES
TO IMPROVE PHYSICIAN INCOME AND EFFICIENCIES
THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS 6
In a rapidly changing healthcare environment, owning a private practice can be
a nearly impossible endeavor. St. Charles Hospital has established an innovative
partnership model that allows physicians the freedom to practice medicine.
LEVERAGING SOCIAL MEDIA TO DISPEL
FEARS, MISINFORMATION 14
Physicians are using the power and efficiency of social media to calm unsubstantiated
health concerns and guide patients toward reliable information.
SPECIAL CLINICAL SECTION:
CHRONIC CARE
STUDY FINDS HIGH RATES OF CHRONIC CONDITIONS AMONG
PEDIATRIC CANCER SURVIVORS 18
While more pediatric patients are surviving cancer, researchers have discovered that
most of those patients later develop at least one treatment-related chronic condition.
A STEP TOWARD PREVENTING TYPE 1 DIABETES? 20
An experimental synthetic ROR inverse agonist prevents mice from developing Type 1
diabetes — a finding that eventually could inform new treatments.
CHRONIC CARE UPDATE 21
A roundup of statistics about chronic disease
ON THE COVER
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