Now, you may ask yourself, why not just go ahead and register it for clearance as a low-level medical device if the company thinks it can receive clearance?
If necessary, the company is prepared to register the product as a low-level medical device as it has done in certain other markets outside the U.S. to meet local regulatory requirements.
But the results pose a budget-busting dilemma for patients, employers and other payers such as federal Medicare officials, who were hoping that medical costs might soon level off.
They might sound like the stuff of science fiction, but at their most basic level these medical micro-robots are man-made protein "machines" that produce movement through chemical reactions.
Well, that's the choice of the Americans, but this Government and many other governments have decided that for national security reasons they don't want to disclose the level of medical countermeasures.
But England's chief medical officer said the highest level detected posed "very little risk to human health".
Reliance on diagnostic protocols was initially intended to standardize medical practice and provide a consistent level of care, Drs.
Currently, for most (many perhaps) medical specialties licensing is at State level.
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Yet, reports by the state Commission of Correction's Medical Review Board have found some level of fault with CMC in the nine inmate deaths.
But instead of stating this boldly and clearly, we collude with the medical profession who, at an unconscious level, are always only too pleased to increase the ambit of their own expertise, and ask of our legislators that suicide be rendered simply another medical procedure.
As I described in Regulation of Medical Care, it was an explicit political goal of the American Medical Association and organized medicine at the state level to discourage for-profit firms and encourage non-profits.
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"A more in-depth understanding of eating disorders will lead to further improvements in the level of care and help that medical professionals can provide to both the patients and their family, " she said.
And agency-level strategic sourcing of goods like IT and medical equipment have saved hundreds of millions more.
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Double Beijing medallist Brabants will not compete at the top level this year, to concentrate on his medical career.
In February last year, community leaders said they had received an apology over the level of out-of-hours emergency medical cover in west Ardnamurchan.
But when President Truman was reelected in 1948 and began exploring his own health insurance reforms, Whitaker and Baxter were retained by the American Medical Association to take their California success to a national level.
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The US treasury department, which administers the US sanctions, says exports of medicine, medical devices and food "have been maintained at a steady level" in recent years.
But I do wonder how easy it will be to get a research-level DNA sequence if sequencing manages to get on the medical reimbursement gravy train.
Expenditures for social and cultural measures enable the State to develop the system of education, to finance culture, to satisfy the needs of population in medical care, to implement social security measures, to increase the level of social welfare.
Similar state level reforms in Massachusetts have not resulted in more revenues for medical device innovators.
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Medicaid coverage for people with disabilities has been limited, as many only qualify if their medical expenses are very high -- forcing their income below the poverty level.
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Although their findings don't provide enough evidence to support a "bottle to scalpel" policy, Boyle and her coauthors call for a "higher level of personal vigilance" from surgeons and others who perform medical procedures.
Dr. Mark Bell, principal of Emergent Medical Associates, which operates 18 emergency departments in Southern California, said the level of fear is unprecedented.
"Both appear to be doing well and their spirits are definitely at a higher level, " said Audra Mincey, public relations manager at the medical center.
Some 31% of the adult population is now considered obese, double the level in 1980, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported last month.
Earlier, much-publicized Dartmouth research examined high-level differences in Medicare spending across different regions of the country and concluded that more medical spending had no relationship to better outcomes, This study, looking at more detailed individual patient data over a longer period of time, reached the opposite conclusion.
Tight controls like this have kept medical costs in Japan at 7% of gross domestic product, half the U.S. level.
The accumulation of medical studies into concussions and lawsuits from former players signal that a robust game, still thriving at the pro level, may be vulnerable.
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Maybe he was able to compartmentalize, but my medical friends tell me that, in fact, taking the medicines allowed him to function at so high a level.
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