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The Food and Drug Administration warned clinical test giant Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings that it was marketing an ovarian cancer test in violation of the law, vindicating skeptics of the assay who worried it wasn’t ready for prime time.
OvaSure, developed by researchers at Yale School of Medicine, measures six proteins in blood samples and calculates the chances that the woman has ovarian cancer.
LabCorp, as the Burlington N.C., company Read the rest of this entry »
Still, Blue Shield declared the infant uninsurable. The company foresaw extra doctor visits, “the need for monitoring and an X-ray.” Ava’s slight imperfection “exceeds . . . eligibility criteria for acceptance,” Blue Shield said.
“I was enraged, baffled; I just could not understand,” recalled Jennifer, 36.
The family’s experience is symptomatic of the nation’s healthcare crisis. Ineligible for group insurance, millions of Americans are paying Read the rest of this entry »
Assemblyman Paul Moriarty’s bill would prohibit New Jersey
hospitals from charging for treating hospital-acquired conditions
such as when an object is left inside a body during surgery,
surgical-site infections, urinary tract infections resulting from a
catheter, receiving incompatible blood, and others.
The bill awaits a hearing in the Assembly health committee.
“Patients rightly expect that their safety and well-being will
be protected when Read the rest of this entry »
Published on: 1/25/09.
to work in Barbados there must be a community-driven effort.
This was the view of consultant to the National Committee on the Prevention of Alcoholism and Drug Dependency (NCPADD), Carolyn Lincoln, who was speaking at the Black Rock Polyclinic’s Men’s Health Group on Thursday.
, she said:
“Drug courts give you an opportunity to hold that person personally responsible for their behaviour. The judiciary cannot do it, Read the rest of this entry »
UC Davis researchers trying to understand the sea otter’s slow recovery in California have found an important clue: Some sea otters feed almost exclusively on animals that raise their risk of being infected with potentially deadly parasites.
Abalone is sea otters’ preferred food. But in places where otters have to compete for food, they must eat a variety of prey, such as small crabs, clams, small snails or worms, and they pass those habits to their Read the rest of this entry »
BAY CITY, Mich. – The 93-year-old man who froze to death
while owing about $1,000 to the utility that restricted his
elecricity usage left an estimated $600,000 to a Bay City hospital.
Marvin Schur’s attorney, Cathy Reder, tells the Detroit Free
Press that the
veteran bequeathed his entire fortune
to Bay Medical Center.
Schur’s frozen body was found Jan. 17, four days after Bay City
Electric Light & Power installed a device on his electric meter
that Read the rest of this entry »
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — The World Health Organization said Friday that 294 people have died from a cholera outbreak exacerbated by the country’s collapsing health care system.
WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said that a total 6,072 cases had been reported between the start of August and Nov. 18, with an upsurge in cases in the past two weeks.
A lack of clean water and poorly maintained sewage systems have allowed the waterborne intestinal Read the rest of this entry »
BEIJING (AFP) — China’s parliament began debating a bill Thursday aimed at improving food safety, as the government said more than 3,600 babies made sick in the country’s tainted milk scandal remained in hospital.
The draft law before the National People’s Congress aims to prevent any cover-ups by health authorities and would make them directly responsible for approving additives in processed foods, Xinhua news agency reported.
It would Read the rest of this entry »
When British physician Dr. Russell Cherry saw 26-year-old Laura Bedford at his office last January, he expected the visit to be a routine consultation. But that was before he found out that sandwiches were making her pass out.
Bedford complained that she had been experiencing intermittent and unexplained blackouts for the past 10 years. The episodes had sent her to the hospital twice.
An extensive battery of medical tests had revealed nothing Read the rest of this entry »