The order rescinds the Mexico City Policy, also known as the “gag rule,” which President Ronald Reagan originally instituted in 1984 and President Bill Clinton rescinded and President George W. Bush revived in 2001.
The decision had been eagerly expected by family planning groups, women’s health advocates and others, who hoped it would restore millions of dollars of funding to programs providing health care, contraceptive services, HIV prevention Read the rest of this entry »

Barack Obama must speak for America’s uninsured children. George Bush claimed to care, but when it came to health coverage, he left behind one out of every nine kids in the United States — 8.6 million in all.
Few groups suffer more from government budget cuts than children, and it’s no secret why. They don’t vote. That’s one reason why Bush dismissed pleas to expand the state children’s health insurance program known as SCHIP. He also saw Read the rest of this entry »

Once again, a drug has won approval in Europe before the U.S. This time, it’s the anticlotting drug prasugrel from Eli Lilly and Daiichi Sankyo. The companies
that the drug has been greenlighted in Europe for certain patients who have stents put in to clear the arteries around the heart.
The drug, marketed under the name Efient, will compete with the blockbuster Plavix, which is co-marketed by Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Aventis.
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Patients, most of whom are uninsured, can be treated at the hospital’s W.T. Anderson Healthcare Center, the clinic at the children’s hospital or at the Family Health Center off Bloomfield Road. Costs and financial qualifications will be the same, Vaden said. All the locations are on city bus routes.
Patients in the waiting room at the neighborhood center Wednesday morning said they received letters in the mail notifying them of the closure.
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HOUSTON
— For years it’s been known as the hospital of last resort for the uninsured and indigent in Texas.
Whether they drove hundreds of miles on their own or were shuttled in vans and buses by their local governments, they have come to the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston from 160 of the state’s 254 counties.
“People from all across the state knew they could go there and get charity care,” said Karen Love, president Read the rest of this entry »

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Walgreen Co said on Wednesday that it is marketing a combination of its clinics, pharmacies and other services to businesses looking to save on employee healthcare costs.
Walgreen, best known for the thousands of drugstores it has across the United States, also runs hundreds of health clinics in stores and at corporate offices.
The company, which is set to discuss the plan at its annual meeting on Wednesday, said its “Complete Read the rest of this entry »

Beginning Sunday, there will be new limits on the amounts of medical marijuana users can have at any one time – and not everyone is happy about it.
Ten years ago Washington state voters approved an initiative legalizing the use of medical marijuana for patients with a doctor’s authorization. But users, doctors and police have been in a legal quandary because the initiative never set a limit as to how much is too much.
Beginning Nov. 2, authorized Read the rest of this entry »

Aug. 1, 2008
A daughter, Adrianna Elizabeth Norkus, to Jeromy and Marcie (Daigneault) Norkus of Saco, at Southern Maine Medical Center in Biddeford.
Grandparents are Suzanne and Donald Daigneault of Saco; and Jane Norkus and Brian Norkus of Saco.
A son, Brogan James Fernald, to Kevin Fernald and Kathryn Arnold of South Sanford, at Southern Maine Medical Center in Biddeford.
Grandparents are Michael and Annette Arnold of East Poultney, Vt.; Read the rest of this entry »

For an agency that claims to be rooting out conflicts of interest, the Food and Drug Administration has done a poor job of handling what looks like a potential conflict on a committee evaluating the safety of bisphenol-A, known as BPA.
There is growing fear that BPA — a chemical found in baby bottles and liners for canned goods — might affect the brain development and behavior of fetuses and young children or cause other problems. The Read the rest of this entry »

Indian pharmaceutical companies including Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories and Sun Pharma would require at least 12 to 14 FDA approvals to achieve their 20% sales growth target in the U.S., according to a Credit Suisse report. Ranbaxy Laboratories, which is under investigation for manufacturing violations, needs 20 more approvals to hit the target this year, the report said.
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