ReFlections

 


Fall 2011 (PDF) 

  • Advances in cancer
  • Insights on heart failure

ReFlections is RGA’s underwriting newsletter, written by our expert team of medical directors. It presents underwriters and medical directors with timely, in-depth information to assist with underwriting issues. With ReFlections, RGA hopes to identify trends in mortality and morbidity that could impact your interpretation of medical information.

  
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ReFlections Archive


Spring 2011 (PDF)
  • Edema: What is it, and why is it important?
  • Age and amount requirements - prevalence and mortality
Fall 2010 (PDF)
  • Melanoma of the skin and changes in the staging protocol for skin cancer
  • Benefits and challenges of the PSA screening test for prostate cancer
  • Weighing-in on obesity (Part 2)
  • Prostate cancer statistics, risk factors and the histological grading of prostate cancer differentiation
  • Viral Hepatitis B and C — natural history, immune reactions and common progression to end-stage liver disease
  • MRSA and its impact on underwriting and mortality 
  • Sleep and sleep apnea
  • Pharmacy check utilization  
Fall 2008 (PDF)
  • Underwriting coronary artery
  •  Revascularization procedures 
  • Old-age underwriting 
  • The value of screening for cognitive function in the elderly 
  • Avian influenza: review of basic virus data and pandemic control planning
  • Cardiac CT angiography
 
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