For a new administration committed to fixing America’s health system by only paying for medicine we know works, Medicare’s decision to pay for off-label chemotherapy drugs, ably
presents a challenging opportunity. Reversing this policy could send a powerful and positive message.
The new rule commits the government to paying for some anti-cancer drugs that the Food and Drug Administration hasn’t found effective in dealing with the particular diagnosis Read the rest of this entry »
A 14-year-old girl with a history of serious health issues lay dying of pneumonia in a hospital room. But as her mother waited for the girl to take her last breath, an image of bright light appeared on a security monitor. Within an hour, the dying girl began a recovery that doctors are at a loss to explain.
But Colleen Banton, the girl’s mother, has an explanation. “This was an image of an angel,” she told NBC News in a story reported Tuesday Read the rest of this entry »
The inadequate claim payments stem from outdated information that Aetna and other insurers used from the databases of Ingenix, a UnitedHealth Group unit.
The $5.1 million agreement is in addition to the $20 million Aetna agreed to pay in a settlement last month of Cuomo’s investigation of the out-of-network payment system. The $20 million will help fund creation of a new database to replace the problematic Ingenix system.
Aetna will pay interest Read the rest of this entry »
– Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma, “Office-Based
Cardiovascular Stress Testing”
— Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, “The Positive Impact of Written
Asthma Action Plans”
— CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, “Cultural Excellence Training”
— Centene Corporation, “CONNECTIONS PLUS”
— Ceridian, “Health & Wellness Outreach and Engagement”
— Children’s Mercy Family Health Partners, “CMFHP Disease Read the rest of this entry »
A passenger train and freight train collided Friday afternoon, killing 10 to 15 people and injuring up to 70 others, some of them critically, officials reported.
The crash involved a Metrolink passenger train which was estimated to be carrying 350 to 400 people and a Union Pacific freight train. The impact from the collision trapped dozens of passengers in the wreckage, derailed several cars and sparked a fierce fire.
One of the passengers aboard Read the rest of this entry »
ST. GEORGE – JumpBunch, a leading provider of sports and fitness programs for children, is bringing sports and fitness programs to the area. Daniel and Brittney Stewart, the owners of JumpBunch of Southern Utah, are already at work bringing JumpBunch to private and public schools, preschools, daycares, camps and birthday parties. That’s because JumpBunch comes to you – it goes wherever parents and host organizations need a structured sports and fitness Read the rest of this entry »
will begin accepting applications for a new dual-degree program in dietetics and nutrition.
The university will offer these courses at both its main San Antonio campus and its extension campus in Laredo. Classes will begin in the fall of 2009. The Health Science Center will begin accepting applications on Feb. 15.
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board approved the dual-degree program on Jan. 29 and the Commission on Accreditation for Dietetics Read the rest of this entry »
Walgreen Co.
spokesman Michael Polzin said his company feared that the tobacco ban would have consequences beyond the sales of cigarettes.
“Many times, a person who smokes will come in and buy a package of cigarettes and some other items,” Polzin said in an interview, “so we lose not only the tobacco sale, but those other items they also pick up on the same shopping trip.”
The most fervent opposition to the regulations emerged from the owners Read the rest of this entry »
TUESDAY, Feb. 24 (HealthDay News) — A majority of the guidelines for cardiac care issued by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology are not supported by the kind of gold-standard evidence that doctors respect most, a new study finds.
That conclusion does not come from heretics crying in the wilderness. One author of the report, published in the
Journal of the American Medical Association,
is Dr. Sidney Smith, a Read the rest of this entry »
— A missile hit their uncle’s house, which was made of concrete and so, the Basal family had thought in taking refuge there, safer than their more flimsy one. Fida Basal, 20, was not there when it struck. But her sister, Hanin, 18, was.
On Sunday, the day after
began its ground invasion of Gaza, Fida found Hanin at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. One of Hanin’s legs, her sister was told, had been amputated.
“I want her leg Read the rest of this entry »