On June 26, 2014, the state House Health Committee approved a funding bill (Senate Bill 1267) to extend the life of the Pennsylvania Health Care … Read More ›
Category: Advocacy
As a result of a resolution adopted by the 2012 House of Delegates, the Pennsylvania Medical Society (PAMED) convened a group of stakeholders to study … Read More ›
POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment), a medical form designed to complement, but not replace, an advanced directive, clearly has value in helping to ensure … Read More ›
On Dec. 29, 2015, Gov. Tom Wolf announced that he was partially vetoing the budget that the General Assembly sent him the week prior. He … Read More ›
Gov.-elect Tom Wolf recently appointed Teresa Miller to be the state’s new insurance commissioner in his incoming administration, succeeding Michael Consedine, who will leave the … Read More ›
The American Academy of Neurology, in a position statement published online July 9 in the journal Neurology, delineated physicians’ “ethical duties in protecting athletes from” … Read More ›
For the 2014 elections, new district maps were used for all of the state legislative districts, State Senate, and PA House. During the reapportionment process, … Read More ›
George Lloyd, MD, a physician from Butler who specializes in addiction medicine, told lawmakers during a late January hearing on opioid abuse that findings from … Read More ›