For years, workers have watched their healthcare outlays rise and benefits shrink, and for some, whether they will have benefits at all suddenly is in doubt. As Wall Street’s turmoil sloshes over Main Street, it seems that every day another trusted company files for bankruptcy, succumbs to a takeover, or shuts its doors. Nearly 34,000 businesses filed for bankruptcy in the 12 months ending in June, 42 percent more than the year before—and the Read the rest of this entry »
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AHIP launched its “sham” listening tour in Columbus, Ohio, on July 22, 2008 and was met with grassroots opposition of more than 200 people protesting the insurance industry’s shameful practices of putting corporate profits before people’s health. Today, it continues its “charade” with a meeting in Detroit, announced quietly with no indication of where or at what time.
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Health Care for America Now, Read the rest of this entry »
you get with your prescriptions? How about the warning labels on the medications themselves? Well, if it weren’t for Barbara Seaman you might not get that information at all. Seaman, a writer and activist, made a career of speaking up for women, and trying to ensure that their health concerns were taken seriously, but her work lead to patient’s rights reforms that men benefited from as well.
In 1969, Seaman published her first book
, in which Read the rest of this entry »
The Department of Justice is investigating the off-label use of a Medtronic Inc. implant for promoting bone growth, bringing government scrutiny of such unapproved uses to the heart of the $189 billion medical-device industry.
The probe — in combination with a government safety warning and whistleblowers’ lawsuits — has created what Medtronic Chief Executive William A. Hawkins termed Tuesday a “perfect storm” that suppressed sales of Infuse Bone Read the rest of this entry »
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DOR BioPharma, Inc. (DORB.OB:
) announced that it has reached agreement with the US Food and Drug Administration on the design of a confirmatory, pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating its lead product orBec for the treatment of acute gastrointestinal Graft-versus-Host Disease, or GI GVHD. The agreement was made under the FDA’s Special Protocol Assessment, or SPA, procedure.
An agreement via the Read the rest of this entry »
Elgin was recently found to have six drugs in its drinking water. But city water system officials aren’t exactly on edge.
“I’m not trying to play it down and say it’s not a problem,” Water Superintendent Kyla Jacobsen said. “It is a problem; just not in your drinking water.”
In June, the city’s water treatment facility received results of tests prompted by a March investigation by the Associated Press.
Elgin, along with Aurora, Chicago, East Read the rest of this entry »
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), the Centre for Aids Programme of Research in South Africa (Caprisa), the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) and other organisations in the health-care sector have roundly praised recent statements made by newly-appointed health minister Barbara Hogan.
Although in the job less than a month, the health minister stated that she wanted to see a five-year turnaround in critical health management Read the rest of this entry »
Tom Smithson calls Apple CEO Steve Jobs “iconic.” But he’s confident the Cupertino company’s future is solid regardless of who is in charge.
That certainty has taken on a new sense of urgency as concerns about Jobs’ health have grown in recent weeks. Those worries were heightened when Apple announced that the company’s charismatic co-founder would not deliver the keynote address – as he has done for the past 11 years – at the Macworld Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (Reuters) – Congress’ economic stimulus
package may include $20 billion for the government’s Medicaid
health insurance program and others to adopt health information
technology (IT), which would create jobs and improve medical
care, Verizon Communications Inc (
VZ.N
) chief executive Ivan
Seidenberg said on Wednesday.
A key component of any legislation would be to give the
Department of Health and Human Services the authority Read the rest of this entry »
Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical in nature constitute “forward-looking statements.” Such statements include, but are not limited to, references to Anadys’ strategy, development programs, and ability to develop novel medicines in the areas of hepatitis C and oncology. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause Anadys’ actual results to be materially Read the rest of this entry »