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NTP Report on Bisphenol A
The federal government’s top toxicologists report “concerns” over bisphenol A (BPA), the controversial chemical in many of the nation’s favorite plastic beverage containers, after a full investigation...
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National E-prescribing Conference
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, along with industry partners from health and technology, are hosting a National E-prescribing Conference on October 6 – 7, 2008 at the Sheraton Boston...
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Walgreens Sees Smoke Over San Francisco’s Tobacco Ban
San Francisco recently passed a city-wide ordinance that bans the sale of all tobacco-based products in pharmacies, such as Walgreens. The ban, scheduled to take effect October 1, has stirred up a fire...
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Mental Health Bill Finally Gets Congressional Approval
After more than a decade of lobbying for equal coverage for mental health treatments in health care plans, both the US Senate and the House of Representatives approved a bill yesterday that makes...
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NYC Subways Join the Battle of the Bulge
New York City officials have taken their city to task on the obesity epidemic sweeping the United States and other industrialized countries. Trans fats were recently banned in all New York City...
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AIDS, Cancer Researchers Share Nobel Prize
Recent announcement of the winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine marks, for some, the end of a long-running controversy surrounding which team of researchers are to be credited with discovering the...
View ArticleDiscovering Cellular “Kiss of Death” Wins Nobel Prize
Three scientists were awarded the $1.35 million 2004 Nobel Prize for chemistry, thanks to their discovery that one particular component of the cellular system works a bit like a microscopic Mafia don,...
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3,800 UTMB Jobs Swept to Sea in Hurricane Ike Aftermath, Med School Clings to...
The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston is reducing its workforce by almost one-third, a move that will leave the teaching hospital with too few patient beds to accommodate its...
View ArticleSorry, Malia, All Dogs Allergenic But These Tips Help Clear the Air
In spite of help from the entire world, the United States’ soon-to-be First Family’s quest for a hypoallergenic dog may best be settled in educated compromise because all dogs emit allergens, to one...
View ArticleColorado Grandfather Coughs Up Nail Lodged in His Head for Years
When Prax Sanchez coughed after returning home from his doctor’s office last week, it wasn’t because of an everyday, ordinary tickle in his throat. It was because of a 1-inch nail that had been stuck...
View ArticleSen. Kennedy in Good Spirits
After emerging from three and a half hours of risky surgery yesterday to remove portions of a tumor in his brain, Senator Edward M. Kennedy told his wife he felt “like a million bucks.” The senator...
View ArticleHealth Industry Pumps Lifeblood into Democratic Campaign
Donation dollars, the lifeblood of any political campaign, have been pouring into Democratic headquarters more this election year than in any other since 1990. The medical establishment has donated...
View ArticleForeclosed Homes Becoming Breeding Ground for Mosquitoes, West Nile Virus
In the Greater Los Angeles area, where backyard swimming pools are common, the county’s Vector Control District is getting an alarming number of calls about the abundance of mosquitoes breeding in...
View ArticleAbortion Pills Fail, Kill British Student
At a coroner’s inquest in Wales, a narrative verdict has been handed down in the death of Manon Jones, an 18-year-old City of Bristol College student often described as A-level and bubbly, who died in...
View ArticleDental Clinics Ease Burden in ER
Getting medical or dental care without coverage by an insurance provider can be pretty tricky these days. Long waits in overcrowded, uncomfortable waiting rooms are expected. Sometimes the wait can...
View ArticleBernanke: “Eclectic Approach” Needed for Health Care, Economic Stability
Earlier today, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, expressed concerns about the staggering amount of money the US government is spending on health care and how current projections for growth...
View ArticleAMA Turns Tables, Issues Report Card to Health Insurers
If you spent 14% of your income, or $14 of every $100 you earn, trying to get your hands on that very same income, wouldn’t you want to find a way to reduce the cost of gaining possession of your...
View ArticleBiz Exec Swindles Military Health Care, Gets Prison Time
Thomas Lutz was once a high-level executive at Health Visions Corp., a healthcare company based in the Philippines and doing business with the Pentagon. Now he is facing five years in prison for...
View ArticleSchool Officials Concerned About Disturbing Pregnancy Pact
The disturbing “pregnancy pact” that apparently led to a rash of teen pregnancies at a Massachusetts high school has stunned people throughout the country and left school officials wondering if...
View ArticleAmy Winehouse Very Public Face for Devastation of Drug Addiction
Grammy Award-winning songstress, Amy Winehouse, 24, has just been diagnosed with emphysema, an irreversible lung condition that threatens to cripple and kill her if she doesn’t immediately quit smoking...
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