The article “Health Care Ideas Shared,” by Lisa Allmendinger, on the recent meeting called by Barack Obama supporters to discuss health care, clearly conveyed the enthusiasm expressed for radically changing the system of financing health care in the United States.
What the article failed to report was that participants voted unanimously to support single-payer health insurance over the plan backed by Obama and former Sen. Tom Daschle, a plan that Read the rest of this entry »

Safe Harbor: This news release contains forward-looking statements made
pursuant to the safe-harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are based on management’s current
expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause
actual results to differ materially from those described in the
forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties are contained in the
Corporation’s Read the rest of this entry »

MUMBAI, Nov 4 (Reuters) – The following stocks were on the
move at the BSE on Tuesday.
At 10:27 a.m. the benchmark 30-share BSE index .BSESN was
down 1.9 percent at 10,139.42 points.
The 50-share National Stock Exchange Index .NSEI was down
1.6 percent at 2,995.15 points.
* Sun Pharmaceutical (SUN.BO:
,
,
) fell as much as 10.5 percent
after its U.S. unit, Caraco Pharmaceutical Industries (CPD.A:
,
,
),
got a warning letter from Read the rest of this entry »

Each Thursday at 8:30 a.m. EST, the government tells us about how many people went through one of the most unpleasant experiences
of their lives: filing for unemployment help for the first time. It’s essentially a survey, since state unemployment is managed
by your state, not the federal government.
The report runs like clockwork, but it¿s notoriously inaccurate. For one
thing, the number often has wide Read the rest of this entry »

Each Thursday at 8:30 a.m. EST, the government tells us about how many people went through one of the most unpleasant experiences
of their lives: filing for unemployment help for the first time. It’s essentially a survey, since state unemployment is managed
by your state, not the federal government.
The report runs like clockwork, but it¿s notoriously inaccurate. For one
thing, the number often has wide Read the rest of this entry »

Sunday, November 2, 2008 8:38 PM CST
LETTER: Where is bailout for health care system?
By MANOJ MATHEW, MD, Chief, Department of Family Practice, Sarah Bush Lincoln Health System
Currently the federal government is spending billions of dollars rescuing the faltering financial markets.
America’s family physicians are asking: Who will rescue our health care system? Right now millions of Americans are losing something more valuable than Read the rest of this entry »

A group of 15 senators — co-led by Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah — is telling Barack Obama that they may have the cure to political divides over how to reform health care.
The seven Republicans, seven Democrats and one independent joined in a letter to Obama on Friday saying they have hammered out seven principles they believe should be the goal of health care reform.
“Over the last two years, we have come together as Democrats and Republicans Read the rest of this entry »

NOTE: The following letter is unedited and reflects only the views of the author.
I am writing to encourage voters to vote yes on Measure A on Nov. 4. This measure provides funding for the seismic upgrades to our county Hospital, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. After the 1994 Northridge earthquake shut down 11 Southern California hospitals, the California Legislature passed a law (SB 1953) requiring hospitals and other public buildings to meet Read the rest of this entry »

More than 175 groups on Tuesday plan to send a letter to House and Senate members urging them to pass legislation that would create a nationwide system of electronic health records,
reports. The groups in the
have said they believe increased use of EHRs will improve health care quality and access and reduce medical errors and cost. The coalition in the letter said they “share the downstream effects of our inefficient health care system, particularly Read the rest of this entry »

(Adds details, CEO comment)
LOS ANGELES, Sept 16 (Reuters) – Gilead Sciences Inc
(GILD.O:
,
,
,
) said on Tuesday it received a complete response letter
from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a new drug
application for aztreonam lysine for inhalation, an
investigational treatment for cystic fibrosis.
The FDA informed the company that it cannot approve the new
drug application in its current form and that an additional
clinical Read the rest of this entry »