Physicians debate tax reforms at CMA annual meeting

Death and seniors' health dominate CMA annual meeting.

Physician supply Canada’s doctors also called for a comprehensive national health care resources strategy to better meet emerging needs. “The goal is to find the right number, mix and distribution of physicians,” said Dr. Jesse Pasternak, chair of the Canadian Association of Internes and Residents’ health human resources committee. The CMA has been struggling for years with how best to assure t...

Socially-Efficient Tax Reforms∗

We propose graphical methods to determine whether commodity-tax changes are “socially efficient”, in the sense of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. We also derive estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially-efficient tax reforms. The statistical properties of ...

SNMMI Honors Contributors at 2017 Annual Meeting.

A t its June 2017 Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, SNMMI recognized contributions to the field of nuclear medicine, some of which have been highlighted in Newsline in previous months. Several award ceremonies were held to recognize service, scientific contributions, and the valuable roles SNMMI members play in advancing the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease, cancer, and neurologic conditions.

Marijuana smoke hazardous, says CMA, plus more news from the annual meeting.

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