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Fate Of Tiller's Clinic Expected To Be Decided This Week
The family of murdered Kansas abortion provider George Tiller is expected to decide this week whether his Wichita clinic will reopen, NPR"s "Morning Edition" reports. Tiller"s clinic is one of the few in the U.S. that performs abortions later in pregnancy, and many abortion-rights advocates are concerned whether women in need of abortions in the second and third trimester would be able to obtain care if it were not reopened. LeRoy Carhart, a Nebraska abortion provider who worked with Tiller at his clinic for four years, said that although it is a difficult time for abortion providers, he hopes that the family will reopen the clinic. "This is a job that we took, and we were well-aware of the risks when we started, as was Dr. Tiller," he said. Providing abortion services in the second and third trimester is "a service that"s so needed that it"s worth the risks," he added (Lohr, "Morning Edition," NPR, 6/9). Carhart also said that although no decision on Tiller"s clinic has been made, he "want[s] to assure the press and the women of America ... that we will somehow, somewhere continue to provide abortions later in gestation" (Duin, Washington Times, 6/9).According to Carhart, there are only about 10 providers in the U.S. who perform abortions in the second and third trimesters, including a few hospitals that do not advertise the services. "Morning Edition" reports that most women"s health care providers either are not trained or do not want to receive training to perform the procedure later in pregnancy. Providers who do tend to be older and face extreme pressure from antiabortion-rights advocates. Data from the Guttmacher Institute show that about 1% of all abortions performed in the U.S. occur after 21 weeks" gestation. Elizabeth Nash of Guttmacher said that 37 states have laws that limit access to abortion after a certain point in pregnancy, "usually around 24 weeks, which is at the end of the second trimester." She added that most of those states only allow abortions to save the life of the woman or if her physical health is in jeopardy. Pratima Gupta, an ob-gyn in California, said that she is concerned about what will happen to Tiller"s patients. Gupta said Tiller "had patients that were scheduled for Monday morning. What happened to those patients for the rest of the week, the rest of the month? Those patients are the ones who need us" ("Morning Edition," NPR, 6/9).
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Evaluating More Lymph Nodes May Not Improve Identification Of Late-Stage Colorectal Cancer
Surgically removing and evaluating an increasing number of lymph nodes does not appear to identify a greater number of patients with stage III colorectal cancer, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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Rural Doctors Welcome Recognition Of Rural And Regional Health By Rudd Government, Australia
The Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) says the establishment of the new Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health and Regional Services Delivery portfolio and the appointment of Warren Snowdon MP as the new Minister is recognition of the significant problems that Australians who live in the bush have in accessing health care services.
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Future Physicians Descend On Capitol Hill To Demand A National Public Plan

Today, more than 100 future physicians from across the nation will descend on Capitol Hill to lobby on upcoming health care reform legislation. The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) calls for a robust public health insurance option funded by tax revenue, available to all Americans. "I look forward to one day practicing medicine the way I am taught, and the way I and all health care providers should be practicing, with the knowledge that my patients are finally able to receive the care they need," says Farheen Qurashi, AMSA legislative director and medical student at the at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. "It looks like that day is within reach - if we just reach a little farther." "AMSA is proud to offer an opportunity for AMSA chapter officers to engage in the political process," says Dr. Lauren Hughes, AMSA"s national president. "It"s AMSA"s belief that the best solution to our healthcare crisis is a single-payer system of publicly funded, publicly accountable, privately provided quality healthcare for all." AMSA"s Lobby Day kicks off the 26th Annual AMSA Chapter Officers" Conference, July 16-19, 2009. This year"s conference, "AMSA: 60 years of Community, Leadership and Empowerment" will include keynote addresses by Dr. Bob Kocher, partner, McKinsey & Co. and senior fellow, McKinsey Global Institute; and Dr. Gloria Wilder, founder of Core Health and nationally renowned expert in poverty and economic segregation in healthcare. For information about AMSA"s Lobby Day, please visit http://www.amsa.org/coc/. American Medical Student Association


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