By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Patients taking a widely prescribed prostate drug should alert their eye doctors before undergoing cataract surgery to avoid complications, several medical groups said Tuesday. Read more...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
State loses in birth-injury case
BY BILL MCKELWAY
The state shortchanged lawyers for families challenging the birth-injuryprogram by denying legal fees, then refusing to include interest whenordered to pay, the state appeals court said yesterday. Read more...
The state shortchanged lawyers for families challenging the birth-injuryprogram by denying legal fees, then refusing to include interest whenordered to pay, the state appeals court said yesterday. Read more...
Duke funds to focus on patient care, safety
By Liv Osby
A patient with prostate cancer faces a choice of treatments ranging fromsimply monitoring the tumor to radical surgery, but it can be difficult toknow which is best. Read more...
A patient with prostate cancer faces a choice of treatments ranging fromsimply monitoring the tumor to radical surgery, but it can be difficult toknow which is best. Read more...
Lawmakers Sever Ties Between CDC And Big Pharma
By Evelyn Pringle
In the wake of overhauling the FDA, lawmakers are also cracking down onconflicts of interest within the Centers for Disease Control. Read more...
In the wake of overhauling the FDA, lawmakers are also cracking down onconflicts of interest within the Centers for Disease Control. Read more...
Nursing homes: Business as usual
Consumer Reports - September 2006
Two decades after the passage of a federal law to clean up the nation'snursing homes, bad care persists and good homes are still hard to find In 1987, Congress passed a landmark law meant to improve nursing home carefor the elderly. Read more...
Two decades after the passage of a federal law to clean up the nation'snursing homes, bad care persists and good homes are still hard to find In 1987, Congress passed a landmark law meant to improve nursing home carefor the elderly. Read more...
Lawmakers Say FDA Better Clean Up Its Act
August 18, 2006. By Evelyn Pringle
For six years, the Bush administration has placed pharmaceutical industry interests ahead of public interest by appointing persons with strong ties todrug companies to high level positions at the FDA. Read more...
For six years, the Bush administration has placed pharmaceutical industry interests ahead of public interest by appointing persons with strong ties todrug companies to high level positions at the FDA. Read more...
"We're not winning the battle": VA institutes universal MRSA screening
By Alice Dembner, Globe Staff
The rapid spread of bacteria that causes skin infections in healthy people and can kill the seriously ill is spurring a search-and-destroy effort at hospitals across the nation. Read more...
The rapid spread of bacteria that causes skin infections in healthy people and can kill the seriously ill is spurring a search-and-destroy effort at hospitals across the nation. Read more...
AHA Profits Up 95%; President's Total Comp Climbs As He Retires ($1.86M)
by Matthew DoBias
The American Hospital Association made a net profit of $18.4 million in 2005, a 95% increase from 2004 profits of $9.4 million, according to its Form 990 filed today with the Internal Revenue Service. The AHA had total revenue of $102.3 million last year, which was 12% better than the $91.3 million it notched in 2004. Read more...
The American Hospital Association made a net profit of $18.4 million in 2005, a 95% increase from 2004 profits of $9.4 million, according to its Form 990 filed today with the Internal Revenue Service. The AHA had total revenue of $102.3 million last year, which was 12% better than the $91.3 million it notched in 2004. Read more...
Risky Rx: Pharma's Secret Strategies
By Robert BazellChief science and health correspondent NBC News
We know that physicians meet a parade of drug company sales representatives from their first days of medical school to retirement and that they see drugads every time they pick up a medical journal. Read more...
We know that physicians meet a parade of drug company sales representatives from their first days of medical school to retirement and that they see drugads every time they pick up a medical journal. Read more...
Deaths, costs soar with MRSA infections: report
by Cindy Becker
Pennsylvania hospitals reported 13,722 hospitalizations in which patientshad a methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infection in 2004, or atotal rate of 7.4 infections for every 1,000 hospitalizations, according toa research brief by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council. Read more...
Pennsylvania hospitals reported 13,722 hospitalizations in which patientshad a methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infection in 2004, or atotal rate of 7.4 infections for every 1,000 hospitalizations, according toa research brief by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council. Read more...
Friday, August 18, 2006
Truth in medicine - or not?
July 30, 2006 - Ask folks what they think are the worst problems about health care inAmerica, and many would say access to existing care. Others would sayinconsistent quality. Read more...
Lewisville Doctor Indicted by Federal Grand Jury
By Josh Hixson, Staff Writer
Thu Anh Hoang, M.D., 38, of Lewisville, a physician practicing at the Lifetime Medical Group in Flower Mound, along with four doctors across the country and two others were indicted by a federal grand jury in Atlanta, on charges of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. Read more...
Thu Anh Hoang, M.D., 38, of Lewisville, a physician practicing at the Lifetime Medical Group in Flower Mound, along with four doctors across the country and two others were indicted by a federal grand jury in Atlanta, on charges of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. Read more...
Board to Revisit Doctor's Case
By Kevin Eigelbach, KY Post Staff Reporter Wed Aug 06, 2006.
The Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure will revisit the case of a physician as a result of his guilty plea Monday in U.S. District Court in Covington. Dr. Ghassan Haj-Hamed had been practicing medicine at his clinic in Cold>Spring under certain restrictions, but his plea of guilty to distributing controlled substances may change that, board Assistant General Counsel Chad Elder said Tuesday. Read more...
The Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure will revisit the case of a physician as a result of his guilty plea Monday in U.S. District Court in Covington. Dr. Ghassan Haj-Hamed had been practicing medicine at his clinic in Cold>Spring under certain restrictions, but his plea of guilty to distributing controlled substances may change that, board Assistant General Counsel Chad Elder said Tuesday. Read more...
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