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(Harvard Medical School) Medicare's managed care program, Medicare Advantage, provides beneficiaries with numerous private health plan alternatives compared to traditional Medicare, often with more generous benefits.

Paradoxically, more choices may decrease, rather than increase, enrollment among the elderly. Moreover, seniors with poorer cognition are less responsive to benefit generosity in their enrollment decisions.

(Physicians for a National Health Program) A new study by Harvard Medical School researchers in the Annals of Emergency Medicine finds that access to outpatient psychiatric care in the greater Boston area is severely limited, even for people with reputedly excellent private health insurance.

Given that the federal health law is modeled after the Massachusetts health reform, the findings have national implications, the researchers say.

(Harvard Medical School) In a new study with implications for state and federal efforts to reform payments to doctors and hospitals to encourage greater coordination of care, Harvard Medical School researchers found that a global payment system underway in Massachusetts lowered medical spending while improving the quality of patient care relative to the traditional fee-for-service system.

(Physicians for a National Health Program) A new study shows uninsured American adults with chronic illnesses like diabetes, high cholesterol or hypertension often go undiagnosed and undertreated, leading to an increased risk of costly, disabling and even lethal complications of their disease.

The researchers, based at Harvard Medical School and the affiliated Cambridge Health Alliance, analyzed data on 15,976 US non-elderly adults from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey between 1999 and 2006.

(Children's Hospital Boston) Children's Hospital Boston, with the Broad Institute and Harvard Medical School, has been awarded a Grand Opportunity grant from the National Institute of Mental Health as part of the federal stimulus package, to pursue "whole-genome" sequencing of patients with autism, using new technologies for rapid DNA sequencing to better understand autism's causes.

The roughly $4.5 million grant is part of the federal Recovery Act funding announced today. All genetic sequence data will be made publicly available.

(American Gastroenterological Association) The AGA Foundation for Digestive Health and Nutrition has named Michael Y.

Choi , M.D., the first recipient of the Mary Terese Hartzheim Award for Neuroendocrine Tumor Research. This new research award was created for young investigators interested in researching carcinoid or neuroendocrine tumors.

Dr. Choi is an investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital and an instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston.

The drug maker has been asked to provide details of its payments to faculty members at Harvard Medical School.

More than 200 Harvard Medical School students and sympathetic faculty are intent on exposing and curtailing the industry influence in their classrooms and laboratories.