Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) "misstated" the health care position of opponent Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) during a campaign event on Thursday in Ohio, the Boston Globe reports. Under her health care proposal, all U.S. residents would have to obtain health insurance. The Obama health care proposal ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Fresenius Medical Care North America, operator of the nation's leading network of dialysis clinics, announced the opening of Fresenius Medical Care Kapahulu, a new advanced dialysis treatment center. The Medicare-certified facility is located at 750 Palani Avenue, ten minutes from Waikiki Beach. For more information on the clinic, which is ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The New York Times on Thursday examined how Britain's National Health Service, which provides all residents with no-cost medical services, has "been wrestling with a problem its founders never anticipated: how to handle patients with complex illnesses who want to pay for parts of their treatment while receiving the rest ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Proposals to address the "health crisis that we all share -- getting good, timely medical service and being able to afford it" -- require physicians and politicians to answer three "critical" questions: "Will you get past your partisanship to talk to one another, will you feel my pain and are ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The Service Employees International Union has said Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a not-for-profit institution, incorrectly included bad debt in its accounting of what charity care it provided in 2005 and 2006 and should restate the value of charity care in those years, the New York Times reports.
SEIU Executive Vice ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
A recent article in the journal AIDS Patient Care and STDs reports on the surprising reactions of some health-care personnel when they must treat or care for a person with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) - which has been known for 25 years.
Examples include doctors who would not visit a ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
In the rural developing world, patients who have poisoned themselves with toxic pesticides or plants should not be treated with multiple-dose activated charcoal, because it has no effect on the rate of mortality. These results were announced in an Article on February 16, 2008 in The Lancet.
In fact, a major ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
The California Medical Association concurred with the State Legislative Analyst's Office recommendation that the Legislature reject cuts to doctors who treat low-income patients because the cuts will reduce patients' access to care and won't solve any budget deficit problems.
"The LAO is saying what we've said all along - these cuts ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Summaries of several recent developments related to health care in the presidential election appear below.
* Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.): Clinton on Monday released a pamphlet that details her health care proposal and other plans in her economic package. According to the 13-page pamphlet, over the ...
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