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Let GPs Order MRI Under Medicare, Australia
Patients would spend less time waiting for medical testing and treatment if the Government introduced Medicare rebates for GP-referred MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) and diagnostic testing in GP surgeries, the AMA said today.

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Waits To See Specialists In Boston Increased To Average Of 50 Days, Study Finds
The average time patients in Boston wait for an appointment to see a specialist has increased over the last five years to an average of 50 days and can be up to one year, despite the fact that the city has an "abundance" of specialists, according to a recent study, the Boston Globe reports. For the study, Merritt, Hawkins & Associates, a Texas-based consulting and physician recruiting firm, surveyed 1,162 physician offices in 15 metropolitan areas to try to re-create the situation of a new patient seeking a nonurgent appointment in five specialty areas -- cardiology, dermatology, family medicine, obstetrics-gynecology and orthopedic surgery. The average wait time in Boston is more than three weeks longer than any other city included in the study. The study determined that while Boston patients had the longest wait times for appointments to see dermatologists, ob-gyns and family practitioners, Dallas had the longest wait times to see orthopedic surgeons, followed by Boston. Miami, Minneapolis and San Diego all had longer wait times to see cardiologists than Boston.According to the study, while Boston patients have long faced delays, the problem may have been exacerbated by an increase in patients seeking care following the implementation of the 2006 Massachusetts health insurance law. While the study did not pinpoint a cause for longer wait times in Boston, the study"s authors wrote that the city"s experience "may signal what could happen nationally in the event that access to health care is expanded through health care reform."Brian Rossman, research director for Health Care for All, said the reason for long wait times also is because many specialists in Boston work for academic medical centers and do not see patients full time (Kowalczyk, Boston Globe, 5/15).
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Also In Global Health News: Cholera Risk In Zimbabwe; Nigeria MDG; Arab World Development; Chagas Disease

OCHA Report Warns Of Possible, New Cholera Outbreak In Zimbabwe In a report released on Tuesday, the U.N."s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that Zimbabwe remained at risk of a fresh outbreak of cholera when the next rainy season starts in about five months, ZimOnline reports. According to the OCHA report, structural causes that resulted in the most recent epidemic that killed more than 4,000 people over the past 11 months have not been addressed and could trigger another outbreak (Nzou, 7/22). Nigeria Still Not Making Progress Toward MDGs, WHO Official Says Despite the recent signing of a $100 million malaria control agreement between Nigeria and the World Bank, Nigeria is still "not making progress" towards the Millenium Development Goal targets, Coordinator of the Malaria Control Unit of the WHO in Nigeria Bayo Fatoyinbo said, This Day/allAfrica.com reports. According to the publication, "[i]n addition to the $1.3 billion budgeted to halve the impact of malaria by 2013, donor agencies have so far realised $800 million, while a funding gap of $436 million remained" (Nwezeh, 7/22). Poverty, Hunger, Public Health Addressed In Arab Human Development Report 2009 The U.N. Development Program released the Arab Human Development Report 2009 on Tuesday, which aims to address some of the obstacles to human development in the region, AP/Washington Post reports (Lederer, 7/22). "Among the topics detailed in the report, recommendations are proffered on how the Arab world can tackle poverty and end hunger, boost public health services and end armed conflict that has forced an estimated 17 million Arabs from their homes over the past 60 years," the Daily Star writes (Galey, 7/22). According to the report, "which was drafted mainly by Arab academics," refugees, displaced persons, women and children are at the "forefront of vulnerable groups states must protect," AFP/Google.com reports (Yazbeck, 7/21). SciDev.Net Examines Chagas Disease SciDev.Net examines the "forgotten disease" Chagas, which affects 14 million people worldwide and kills 15,000 people annually. The article describes how people get the disease, who it primarily affects, its global spread and the outlook for treatment (Kilby, 7/17). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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