The University of Michigan Health System has received a $15 million gift from the Ted and Jane Von Voigtlander Foundation, the largest gift ever made to the Health System for women’s health. It will support the construction of a new women’s hospital.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement on legislation that would permanently reform the broken Medicare physician payment system. The Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act, which passed by a vote of 243 to 183, repeals a 21 percent fee reduction scheduled for January 2010, and replaces the physician payment formula with a more stable [...]

Fifty-two Geisinger Health System physicians in 24 medical specialties have been included on the national Best Doctors® list for 2009-2010.
The biennial Best Doctors® database is highly selective, recognizing only 5 percent of all doctors in America. Honorees are determined through impartial scoring and a validated peer review process. More than 40,000 U.S. physicians were polled.

The King’s Fund has announced that Sir Ian Kennedy, former Chairman of the Healthcare Commission, will take over as Chair of The King’s Fund’s inquiry into the quality of general practice in England. Sir Ian replaces the Fund’s Chief Executive, Niall Dickson, who is stepping down from the role ahead of his departure to become [...]

Walton Report confirms ‘postcode lottery’ to life expectancy for patients living with muscular dystrophy
Action Duchenne, the charity campaigning to find a cure and improve treatments for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy the most common and severe form of muscular dystrophy, today renews its calls for more ‘Centres of Excellence’ for the treatment of the condition. The Walton [...]