WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Americans with financial worries because of the ailing economy may be skipping needed prescription drugs in a wrong-headed attempt to save money, according to a survey released on Tuesday.
Nearly 95 percent of doctors surveyed by Epocrates Inc. said they have some concern that patients may not be taking a prescribed drug correctly because of the economic climate.
The biggest concern among the 700 doctors surveyed was that Read the rest of this entry »
SANTA CRUZ — When Dr. Tony Musielewicz walks through Dominican Hospital’s emergency room, he muses that it often “looks like a nursing home.”
But Musielewicz, the emergency department’s medical director, doesn’t mean that in a bad way. In fact, he’s angry about the rising numbers of Medicare patients who are forced to rely on the ER or urgent care clinics to treat common problems that should be monitored by a primary care physician.
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Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) –
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Biogen had refused to give Tysabri to Baron, saying it
wanted to avoid jeopardizing other patients' access to the drug.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration worked with the Mayo
Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where Baron is being treated, to
seek a solution, FDA spokeswoman
said earlier today.
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The Bombay High Court has set aside an order of the Maharashtra Food and Drugs Administration regarding the Mumbai warehouse and vendors of leading supermarket chain Subhiksha, the company said in a statement today.
The state government’s regulatory body for food and drugs had, in August, passed orders for cancellation of licence of three of Subhiksha’s vendors and imposed a 20-day suspension order on Subhiksha for alleged noncompliance of health Read the rest of this entry »
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
The University of Pennsylvania is scheduled to present its fifth annual health seminar, “Advanced Medicine: A Woman’s Guide,” on March 3 at The Colony, 155 Hammon Ave.
The program is scheduled to include presentations from Penn Medicine’s leaders in women’s health regarding issues such as cancer, cardiovascular disease and healthy brain aging.
Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a question-and-answer Read the rest of this entry »
On its Web site, HealthGrades offers, free to consumers, quality ratings of 27 procedures and treatments for virtually every hospital in the country. The Web site is designed so that consumers can easily compare patient outcomes at their local hospitals for procedures ranging from aortic aneurysm repair to bypass surgery. Each hospital receives a star rating based on its patient outcomes in terms of mortality or complication rates for each procedure Read the rest of this entry »
But questions remain about whether Southern Maryland can attract enough doctors, nurses and dentists to serve the additional children, especially in the rural corners of the region, where even private doctors can be scarce.
At an event Monday at the Charles health department, U.S. House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer and U.S. Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, both Maryland Democrats, joined state and local elected officials in celebrating passage of the Read the rest of this entry »
FRIDAY, Feb. 13 (HealthDay News) — Most hospital patients cannot identify — by name or role — the doctors assigned to their care, a new case study of one urban hospital suggests.
“The majority of hospitalized patients we looked at were not able to name anybody in charge of their care,” said study author Dr. Vineet Arora, associate program director at the University of Chicago’s internal medicine residency program. “And when they did name somebody, Read the rest of this entry »
PANAMA CITY – An EC-135 helicopter slowly circled by Gulf Coast Medical Center and over Jenks Avenue Tuesday afternoon, before descending just east of the Panama City hospital and landing on a fenced off, 30-by-30-foot concrete section.
It’s a sight that will become more common for motorists and visitors, as the hospital uses a new tool in its efforts to provide swift emergency medical services and cut down on response time in rural areas.
Gulf Read the rest of this entry »
After living for years in a cramped duplex, Brian Hand, his wife, and their four daughters found what they thought was the perfect place: a rustic colonial with a yard, screened-in porch, and three bedrooms. But the night they moved in, an ice storm struck, leaving the family iced in for three days and without electricity for nearly two weeks.
They borrowed a generator and did their best to unpack and decorate. But when power finally returned, they Read the rest of this entry »