Failing in Medical News

New report: Individual health insurance market failing consumers

New York, NY, July 21, 2009The individual health insurance market is not a viable option for the majority of uninsured adults, a new report from The Commonwealth Fund finds. Seventy-three percent of people who tried to buy insurance on their own in the last three years did not purchase a policy, p...

Programs to Prevent HIV in Newborns Failing in the Developing World - Over 900 Avoidable HIV Infections Every Day

New multi-country research study finds neither newborns nor their mothers are receiving appropriate treatment and care to end this needless tragedy NEW YORK and GENEVA, May 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Global and national programs to prevent vertical (mother-to-child) transmission are in dis...

New American Lung Association Report Reveals States Failing to Enact Lifesaving Tobacco Control Policies

--Only Two States Passed Comprehensive Smokefree Laws, Three plus DC Raised Tobacco Taxes-- WASHINGTON, April 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- According to a report released today by the American Lung Association, 2008 proved to be a slow year for tobacco control policies on the state level, wit...

Artificial pump effectively backs up failing hearts

Patients with severe heart failure can be bridged to eventual transplant by a new, smaller and lighter implantable heart pump, according to a just-completed study of the device. Results of this third-generation heart assist device were reported at the 58th annual meeting of the American College of...

Main U.S. Toxics Law Failing to Ensure Safety of Thousands of Chemicals

Congress Must Reform Ineffective 33-year-old Chemicals Law, Expert Testifies WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congress urgently needs to reform the nation's main chemicals law, the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) of 1976, because it has failed to ensure the safety of the te...

Quitting Smoking Saves Lives and Money: New American Lung Association Report Finds Most States Failing to Adequately Protect Residents and Their Bottom Line

-Treatments and Services Provided by Each State to Help Smokers Quit Now Available at http://www.lungusa.org - WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- If you smoke, quitting can save you money as well as your life. However, where you live can help or hurt your ability to quit. Accord...

Federal Government Receives Failing Grades on Tobacco Control in Annual American Lung Association Report

American Lung Association Calls on Federal, State Leaders to Take Action and Close the Door on America's Tobacco Epidemic NEW YORK, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Lung Association's State of Tobacco Control 2007 report, an annual report card on federal and state tobacco ...

UK Sports Clubs Failing to Run Comprehensive Health Checks on Professional Players

Professional sports clubs do not run regular comprehensive health checks on their players, finds research published ahead of print in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. The findings are based on survey results from 65 professional clubs, covering football (premiership and championship...

Hospital Rapped For Failing To Combat Superbug Infections

As the National Health Services (NHS) Trust of UK moves towards its 2008 goal of reducing MRSA infections and Clostridium difficile rates , it has supported the first warning to a hospital, by a health watchdog- the Healthcare Commission, for breaching the Hygiene Code. The warning issued to ...

UK Hospitals Failing Hygiene Standards

Hygiene is at a premium in advanced countries, it seems. Sometime ago a nurse in UK was found screaming at a heart attack patient who was left lying in a puddle of urine . And now it is reported that a quarter of NHS trusts are not complying with hygiene standards laid down for them. How...

Is There Any Clinical Benefit to Staying on a Failing Regimen?

The accumulation of drug resistance after the failure of an anti-HIV drug combination is slower in patients who had previously experienced only moderate// CD4 cell losses, according to a study of patients failing treatment at a network of European hospitals. However, the study also found tha...

Special Exams to Help Failing Medical Students

Those failing in their MBBS examinations in Rajasthan need not despair about becoming doctors. Rajasthan Medical University// is conducting MBBS examinations once again for these students, a move that is being questioned by many. These examinations are being considered in view of the increas...

New Device May Help Heal A Failing Heart

A new artificial pump along with the intake of certain drugs could enable a failing heart to rest and repair itself, say scientists in Britain.// The temporary pumps, known as Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs), are currently used in patients with severe heart failure while they await tr...

College Student Commits Suicide After Failing In HSC Exams

Frustrated over his unsuccessful attempt to clear the Higher Secondary Examination, a student in Ambarnath town of neighbouring Thane district today allegedly committed suicide by jumping in front of the Pune-bound fast Deccan Queen train, police said. // Vaibhav Dinesh Murbadkar, studying i...

Sinking Economy Hit Hard by Soaring Healthcare Costs, Says MedicareSupplementPlans.com

...geles, CA (Vocus) August 7, 2009 -- Medicare and Medicaid costs are overwhelming government budgets as insurance costs run amok and further sideline a failing economy, according to President Obama. A February report by the Department of Health and Human Services indicates that health care costs are esti...

Elder Abuse, Neglect Make Early Death Far More Likely

...author of an accompanying editorial in the same issue of the journal. The inability to care for oneself, which characterizes self-neglect, can include failing to provide adequate food, water, clothing, shelter and necessary medications and not following basic hygiene practices, according to the study and edi...

Boehringer Ingelheim to Commence Phase III Study Investigating the Role of BIBW 2992 as First-Line Treatment for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Patients with EGFR Mutations

... preclinical lung cancer models." Oncogene. 2008;27:4702-4711. (2) BIBW 2992 and BSC Versus Placebo and BSC in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients failing Erlotinib or Gefitinib (LUX-LUNG 1). 23 April 2009. Available at: http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00656136?term=BIBW+2992+and+Phase+III&ran...

Thoratec Corporation and HeartWare International, Inc. Announce Termination of Proposed Transaction

...tCall/ -- Thoratec Corporation (Nasdaq: THOR ), a world leader in device-based mechanical circulatory support therapies to save, support and restore failing hearts, and HeartWare International, Inc. (Nasdaq: HTWR/ASX: HIN), which develops and manufactures miniaturized implantable heart pumps, announced tod...

Thoratec Schedules Second Quarter Conference Call, Webcast

...tCall/ -- Thoratec Corporation (Nasdaq: THOR ), a world leader in device-based mechanical circulatory support therapies to save, support and restore failing hearts, today announced that it will report its operating results for the second quarter and first six months of fiscal 2009 on Wednesday, August 5. ...

Obama White House Can Save $3.7 Trillion and Extend Lifespan 29+ Years, Predicts Revolutionary A4M Healthcare Plan

...www.worldhealth.net) who represent 110 nations worldwide. Today, Capitol Hill debates a $1.65 trillion, 10-year plan to overhaul the nation's failing healthcare system. The majority of the plan focuses on how to pay for health insurance , rather than formulating a comprehensive plan of action of ...

Errors in diagnosis of depression lead to over and under diagnosis in primary care

...number true diagnoses three to one." Writing in the journal, the researchers said: "Our results should not be interpreted as a criticism of GPs for failing to diagnose depression but rather a call for better understanding of the problems that non-specialists face." Dr Mitchell commented further that "...

FDA Ruling on Mercury Fillings Falls Short

...hile the poor, minorities, and institutional recipients, such as soldiers and prisoners, still get amalgam. "FDA remains alone in the world in failing to protect children and pregnant women from mercury fillings. Since 1996, Canadian dentists have been told not to put mercury amalgam in children or p...

Ecigarettesnational.com Says Claim by FDA and Other Health Organizations Intentionally Misleading

...of their minds. In a nation that is struggling with the demands of a failing healthcare system, a failing economy, and a disgruntled people that have had enough of both, the questio...

As the Government Continues to Work Toward Health Care Reform, Medtipster is Providing a Free Solution to Rising Health Care Costs for Americans Right Now

...ly 23 /PRNewswire/ -- While legislators debate over how to reform America's failing health care system, many of the country's citizens are struggling to afford...lth in order to cut costs, including skipping doses, cutting pills in half, failing to fill a prescription or sharing a prescription. As more and more Americ...

Obama Puts Politics Before Principle in Abortion Coverage, Says Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice President

...W. Veazey, President and CEO, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice: Overhauling our health care system is a moral imperative; we are failing as a nation to care for our people in the most basic way. How we rehaul our health care system will show whether we are willing to live up to our prin...

House Democrats' Health Plan Contains Words of Coercion -- Not Choice -- Text Analysis Shows

...is nowhere to be found. Variants of the words "require," "limit," and "must" appeared a total of 708 times. Terms describing the consequences of failing to abide by the bill -- "penalty," "enforce," and "sanction" -- showed up in 225 places. Dircksen consulted grammatical resources to c...

Counterfeit antimalarial drug discovered in Ghana

...local citizen brought a suspicious sample of "Coartem" to one of five sentinel sites set up in the country to monitor and test medicine quality. After failing initial testing at the site, further testing by Ghana Foods and Drug Board (FDB) confirmed the medicine was indeed counterfeit. The USP DQI Program es...

For Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis, Surveyed Rheumatologists and Patients Differ In Their Perception of Bristol-Myers Squibb's Orencia

...itors. However, this high perception may be attributed to the fact that an overwhelmingly majority of Orencia patients have switched to the drug after failing treatment with a TNF-alpha inhibitor. The new report entitled Brand Perceptions in Rheumatoid Arthritis also finds that Orencia's physici...

Congress Braces for Showdown Over Health-Care Reform

... all kinds of mandates." In a statement, Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark., chairman of the Blue Dog Coalition's health care task force, assailed the bill for failing to control the escalating cost of health care. While the coalition, which represents conservative and moderate Democrats, is "committed to passing hea...

Bradmer to repurchase up to 8.3 million of its common shares pursuant to a substantial issuer bid

...s pursuant to which the Corporation has been given until February 8, 2010 to satisfy the TSX that it meets all TSX requirements for continued listing, failing which the Share will be delisted from the TSX 30 days thereafter. The Corporation is, therefore, considering its options in this regard, which may inc...

Intelident Solutions Reaffirms Proposal to Acquire Zila

...know that Tolmar's agreement with the Senior Secured Noteholders prevents Zila from accepting a superior offer from Intelident or any other party. By failing to allow room to consider superior offers, Zila's Directors have breached their fiduciary duties to Zila's stockholders." As part of its laws...

Mathematics taking guesswork out of plastic surgery tissue transfer

...the less reliable the tissue is becoming. The motivation to try to reduce injury to muscle is leading to an increase in problems with part of the flap failing because it doesn't have enough blood." Miller asked Friedman, founding director of Ohio State's Mathematical Biosciences Institute, to work on a mo...

Full Transcript of Pelosi Press Conference on Health Care Reform

...hose premiums. Our health care system is failing small business. It's failing business owners like myself. It's failing our employees. It's...

Washington D.C. Metro Crash Jolts Personal Injury Attorneys from Coast to Coast

...owing fatal and nonfatal crashes on the Metro, including this one, the NTSB has criticized the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Administration for failing to fix known safety problems. Reports from the NTSB make mention of ignored warnings from front-line managers, disregard for their recommendations, an...

Brown professor continues debate over recovered memory

...at contradicts him." In the current Journal of Trauma & Dissociation article, Cheit calls Pope's entire contest "a sham," accusing Pope's team of failing to provide a thorough account of all submissions and the process by which they were rejected, offering highly questionable literary analysis, and incl...

World Financial Crisis and AIDS Backlash Threaten Lives

...s and funding reallocations. Many of those people will die. We cannot allow AIDS backlash or the current economic situation to be used as excuses for failing to meet commitments." "We must continue to scale up and sustain AIDS treatment and prevention programmes in Eastern African countries," said Ro...

ADVENTRX Pharmaceuticals Announces Closing of Financing

...'s common stock will be delisted by the NYSE Amex, including as a result of failing to comply with applicable stockholder approval requirements or failing to maintain sufficient stockholders' equity or a sufficient stock price; th...

New Mexico Supreme Court Ruling Enhances Air Ambulance Safety

...lbotts was reversed and the case was retried. On retrial, a second jury again found for the Talbotts holding the hospital liable for its negligence in failing to identify numerous safety deficiencies before entering into an agreement with MAT. After the second trial, the hospital appealed and the New Mexico ...

Obesity Rates Continue to Climb in U.S.

....5 percent, according to the report, F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are failing in America 2009 . Besides Mississippi, West Virginia, Alabama and Tenne...on Foundation; July 1, 2009, report: F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are failing in America 2009 ...

New Report Finds Obesity Epidemic Increases, Mississippi Weighs in as Heaviest State

...ult obesity rates increased in 23 states and did not decrease in a single state in the past year, according to F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are failing in America 2009 , a report released today by the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). In addition, the pe...