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Alliance in the NewsCynthia Bens Featured For Patient Advocacy Work
January 25, 2012 | Roxanne Yaghoubi
Related topics: Medical Innovation Policy Quality of Care ResearchThis week, the Coalition for Imaging & Bioengineering Research (CIBR) ran a story in their Patient Advocate Group (PAG) Spotlight newsletter, titled "Patient Advocate Leader Cynthia Bens Attends RSNA 2011 as Guest of the Coalition for Inaging & Bioengineering Research (CIBR)."
In it, Ms. Bens, the Director of Public Policy for the Alliance for Aging Research writes about her experience representing the Alliance for Aging Research and CIBR at the Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.Ms. Bens described the event as a, "...fantastic and rare opportunity to get the kind of hands-on feel for imaging technology that patients are rarely afforded," and that she hopes, "...other advocates will be able to attend the conference and learn about the increasingly important role imaging technology plays in the lives of patients that they represent."
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Science in the SpotlightThe Balancing Act: Managing Atrial Fibrillation
Every year around 75,000 Americans learn that they have atrial fibrillation. Some are diagnosed after noticing that their heart is racing or skipping beats. Others feel chest and throat pressure that they think is a heart attack. Or they go to their doctors feeling tired-out and weak all the time. Some feel nothing at all. -
Get Mad ColumnCan We Work the Bugs Out? In Search of the Next-Generation IPAB
Summer 2011 | Alliance for Aging Research
Related topics: Federal Funding Health Policy Quality of CareAn IPAB is not the latest device created by Apple to play music or store your online files. IPAB is the Independent Payment Advisory Board and its purpose is to oversee costs in Medicare. The only similarity between IPAB and an iPAD is that both are small and complex units with tremendous power to change lives. But for those receiving their health care under the Medicare program, IPAB’s changes may not be for the better.
