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FDA tackles illegal hydrocodone products Products for children 6 and under that have not been approved are the primary targets to include cough suppressants...FDA approved products ...
Lab-on-a-chip" breakthrough for on-site diagnostics October 1, 2007 A Californian based company has produced the worlds first disposable photonic lab-on-a-chip solution for next-generation ...
Court rules Medicare plans can be sued for nonpayment ... As this article states from the court decision, payers can be sued for non payment, even if the funds were administered by an HMO/IPA...Paci...
Medical Society Turns the Tables and Asks Doctors to Rate Health Insurers Survey Says........this one we have not seen...physicians ranking the insurance carriers...consumers have had the opportunity, but not the p...
Single-payer healthcare the best idea : Opinion You can't go wrong listening to a nurse...they live and breathe health care on the front line every day...BD I was one of the nurses ...
Blue launches wellness consulting We have read the various posts about United, well enter the Blue plans...I think people would have a much better response to such programs i...
Hospital, insurer at odds -- as of Monday patients will need to file their own claims with Blue Cross in Lake County, IL Blue Cross claims the hospital is not living up to it's end of the contract..now in the courts...so what else is new here...in the meant...
Hospitals Due to Close Are Given Money - New York State of New York to help hospitals with closing expenses and paying off debts and additional money for those who will be picking up the sla...
Bush says Congress is "Irresponsible" relative to the Child Health Plan Hmmmm...do we call this "blame shifting"? Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush said a plan by Congress to expand a c...
Medicare Mess Hits UnitedHealth -price increase for Part D coverage on the way According to the article, the growth years are over...as the price goes up for Part D coverage, participants will be looking to other carrie...
FDA approves Realize Adjustable gastric Band for Morbid Obesity Web page appears to be work in progress for further information...one more solution for overcoming obesity...BD CINCINNATI, OH – September...
Medicare Hotline Needs Help Outsourcing was perhaps not the best answer...BD WASHINGTON (AP) Customer satisfaction with a toll-free help line for Medicare beneficiari...
Premiums for Medicare drug plans jumping 8.7% Many seniors and the disabled enrolled in the Medicare drug program are likely to pay more next year, with the average premium for all stan...
Gap job applicants' data stolen Usually we only have one of these every week...this week there are two. I guess encryption is still mystifying many...BD SAN FRANCISCO -...
Woman left in CT scanner for hours The tech did call her and apologize...wasn't the first time a doctor said this had occurred..BD TUCSON, Ariz. - A cancer patient says ...
MagicJack, Simpler VoIP than Skype? New product on the market, usb device that plugs in to your pc, connect your analog phone line and it's $19.95 per year...just went live...
Seeing Eye Cane...in the future It has not gone into production yet, but the estimated price is around $200.00...BD Are seeing eye dogs about to be replaced by the invent...
Hair reveals all! So much for splitting hairs...good article and very informative...BD Historically, hair has had a magical and almost cultic importance in ...
Well spoken - Craig Barrett.... Intel Corporation Very good observations from the top of one of today's technology leaders...puts the facts straight out there...something that politician...
AZOR(TM) Receives FDA Approval For Treatment Of High Blood Pressure It will give physicians a new treatment option for patients whose blood pressure remains too high on currently prescribed medications....
Twice-Daily ZYFLO CR(TM) (Zileuton) Extended-Release Tablets For The Chronic Treatment Of Asthma Dey, L.P., an affiliate of Merck KGaA of Darmstadt, Germany, announced that it has launched ZYFLO CR(TM) (zileuton) extended release tablet...
Cardiologists And Heart Surgeons discuss stem cell procedures Stem cell therapy for cardiac regeneration and the controversial issue of medicine and the media will be the focus of the keynote addresses...
Legal Battle over Generic Version Of Chewable Oral Contraceptive Pharmaceutical company Warner Chilcott on Monday announced it has filed a lawsuit against Barr Laboratories in response to Barr's FDA a...
FDA Approves New 300mg Loading Dose Tablet For PLAVIX(R) (clopidogrel Bisulfate) Sanofi-aventis (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administrat...
Wal-Mart Adds Drugs to $4 Program A permanent link to the PDF page is listed on this site for easy reference...BD Wal-Mart said this morning it was expanding its $4-a-mont...
New England Journal of Medicine- Purple Urine How did this happen? BD Over the next 3 days, the urine gradually became yellow and clear, in the absence of antibiotic treatment. Purpl...
Michael Moore appears on Oprah to talk about health care for a return visit this week Controversial film director Michael Moore - whose been laying relatively low recently - will appear on Oprah's talk show tomorrow to ...
Hip and Knee replacement makers make deals with federal prosecutors to resolve kickback violations NEWARK, N.J. - Five makers of medical device implants have reached a US$310 million agreement to resolve concerns over doctor kickbacks, ...
UCLA Medical Center performs its first living donor kidney swap Neat story...and hopefully congress will approve this for Medicare...BD UCLA Medical Center on Sept. 20 performed its first living donor ...
FDA approval for generic Accuneb Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has announced that it has received final approval from the United States (U.S.) Food and Drug Administration (...
Let patients book their own appointments? Good alternative...less no shows, patients are more truthful about explaining why they are coming in, and staff has more time to dedicate to...
Hundreds Of Thousands Of Americans To Lose Medicare Premium Assistance, Unless Congress Acts Immediately A federal program that pays the Medicare Part B premium for low-income people with Medicare will end on September 30 unless Congress extend...
State and city healthcare reforms collide with a U.S. law This article talks about a federal law that could indeed make it difficult for state mandates to include employers being taxed for health in...
Monasteries enter the Internet Age Monks are particularly fond of e-mail, and many find it extremely useful and less intrusive than a telephone call, Smith says. "There a...
More Employers Turn to Disease Management Is this another bad experiment...to contain costs...with off the shelf disease management programs...large companies can mold such a project...
Many drugs slip through regulatory 'black hole' Good question, how does this happen and why doesn't the FDA make a public list available? BD Many doctors and pharmacists seem unawa...
Study Of An advanced Cervical Disc Implant On going study with an alternative solution to fusing cervical discs...more information available on the study at the web site along with in...
New Procedure For Hip Pain - Hip Arthroscopy as an Outpatient procedure Done on an outpatient basis, but may not be covered yet by some insurance companies...good new though if this can have the ability to either...
A Heavy Burden on Emergency Services Emergency equipment requirements changing to accommodate over weight patients...BD Some communities have had to invest in special bariatr...
Employer-Sponsored Health Plan Costs Expected To Increase 8.7% In 2008, According To Study Employers can expect to see your carrier to be encouraging the use of Care Managers to keep the cost down soon. I wrote about this in a pri...
Employers, Health Insurers Increasingly Use Care Managers To Review Physicians' Treatment Plans, Ensure They Conform To Evidence-Based Practices Another level of health care for those working for companies providing insurance...you could be seeing a "Care Manager" on the sce...
Cardiovascular Systems Inc. - Diamondback 360° received FDA approval New technology for removing plaque from blood vessels...the difference from existing technologies is the ability to remove hard calcified pl...
Medicare Rights Center-Help Tools - Interactive Counselor Let's hope this is a good tool...it certainly doesn't get any easier trying to figure out which plan will work for you...hopefully t...
Depuy Mitek Introduces Next Generation Suture Passer For Arthroscopic Shoulder Repair New procedures for rotator cuff repair...site has Webcast available for viewing as well...BD DePuy Mitek, Inc., a leading manufacturer of ...
Relief for foot drop, dropfoot May even improve circulation too as an added benefit...BD In the spirit of the 15th century artist and visionary Leonardo da Vinci, the da ...
To Keep Health Plans, Many Firms Shift Costs - Virtual Insurance could be one of them... Virtual Insurance ....Even more minimalist is companies’ paying nothing, leaving employees with the whole premium....... companies can off...
More time for hospital retrofits may be granted by state SACRAMENTO - Some California hospitals could be granted up to a 12-year reprieve from having to meet tough state seismic-safety standards u...
Don't retire: Get a job Interesting story on how this doctor went to work for another doctor versus retiring...and still was able to care for his same patients...BD...
OTC statin treatment could help stem the cardiovascular disease epidemic Discussion about an over the counter statin treatment....BD Making statin treatment available without a prescription could help the figh...
U.S. Rule Limits Emergency Care for Immigrants - New York Caught in the middle? What determines emergency care?...treatments that are not an emergency are not covered by either state or federal fun...
What is everyone doing with those tablets? If you have not had the opportunity to see and try out a Tablet PC, this might be the next best thing to get an idea on how some of this wo...
Citigroup Customer Data Leaked on LimeWire More on the peer to peer data breach... CTI doesn't need this type of publicity either...so again if you are working in a medical enviro...
Walking proof of insurance crisis - Los Angeles The "man on the street" talks to various residents in Hollywood, they have jobs but can't afford insurance...BD Tapan Chowdh...
Medicaid drug rule may hurt recipients - or at least those seeing physicians still using paper pads.... The key word here is "non electronic prescriptions"...if you are a physician, and affected by the new law, do yourself a favor and...
Allyson Pollock on what Michael Moore's new film, Sicko, doesn't tell you The Brits are slowly getting a taste of Kaiser as they privatize many of their hospitals...to make money? BD For almost every PFI hospit...
Former Pfizer Worker Could Face Charges Data Loss/Breach story of the week...BD Pfizer Inc. has contacted federal authorities in hopes they will prosecute a former employee respo...
Is the quality of elder care in jeopardy? Not enough medically trained individuals around...BD Before going to sleep on Aug. 31, 2006, a 72-year-old woman living at Oceanside Home C...
Cardiovascular Webcast: Cardiovascular Specialists at Children's Hospital Boston to Perform Rare Interventional Catheterization During Live Webcast For other live events, check the OR-Live listings on this site in the right hand column...BD On Thursday, Oct. 4, at 9 a.m. ET, cardiovasc...
Fremont-Rideout Delays Negotiations - Another Strike Possible (Nursing) At the request of the California Nurses Association, the federal mediator contacted Fremont-Rideout Health Group and asked the parties to m...
Medtronic Receives FDA Approval for New Cardiac Systems with Distance Wireless Telemetry Medtronic Receives FDA Approval for New Cardiac Systems with Distance Wireless Telemetry Concerto CRT-D and Virtuoso ICD transmit patient...
Homeland security cyber attacks probed Do you take security seriously with your network...nobody seems to be immune...be sure your network is using updated and current security pr...
How to Take Notes on Your Notebook (Computer) Good article on the use of One Note...Part of the Microsoft Office Suite...this is something I use all the time to keep notes on all my meet...
European directive will halt use of MRI scans; cancer diagnosis and treatment will suffer The end of MRI's in Europe? BD Implementation of the Physical Agents (Electromagnetic Fields) Directive 2004/40/EC in all Member Sta...
Surviving in the Medical Field Another good video from Dr. Farrago...he's rapidly becoming one of the favorites here...this talk is about relationships...doctors to do...
Health insurance a requirement for more college students If students do not prove they have insurance or adequate health insurance, the university automatically charges their semester bill for a 3r...
Value of annual checkup questioned How do many preventive health tests get started...are many not started with an annual physical? Do we not want to pay doctors for this serv...
Lower Back Pain May Respond Better To Acupuncture Therapy Than Conventional Therapy Acupuncture has worked for me...although I know there are still many questions about whether or not it is a good treatment for pain...it wor...
AMA Urges Congress To Stop Medicare Cuts Is Congress creating the crisis by no adverting physician pay cuts? Would you want your salary at work to be reduced back to what you made ...
ZoomIt v1.7 - Software for the Tablet, use for presentations.. I really like this simple application and became acquainted with it last year at a Microsoft Tech Net meeting. Although a tablet is ultimat...
Leiner Health Products Accused of Falsifying Tests on Store Brand Drugs Sold by Wal-Mart, Others. FDA says Defective Drugs Should Have Been Recalled. Keep an eye out on which vitamins you purchase today..this company has been around for many years and used to be an account of mine many yea...
Controlling Foot Odor In the midst of all the health insurance stories this week, let's take a break and make sure our feet don't stink...guys...listen up...
California sets stage for national debate on health-care reform As mentioned many times on the blog before, it appears the whole country is watching us..and what happens here will definitely have an impac...
How Many Medical Marijuana Puffs Make a Dose? If you have an opinion, go the link where you can add comments...some people eat and digest the product too...good question, how do you regu...
Why Does Everyone Bow Down to the Health Insurance Industry? From Barbara Ehrenreich.....book writer...frequent contributor to the New York Times...she makes some good points and leaves a lot to think ...
I wish I had a tablet - Sketchcast.com We are all familiar with You Tube, and Sketchcast is very similar, but the difference here is the ability to share you sketching's with ...
Employers get tough on health** And this is only the beginning...as it appears there is nothing stopping the surge...you do have a choice...start your own business if worki...
