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European Health Care Institutions Forced to Select Lower-Priced Interventional Cardiology Devices

WALTHAM, Mass., July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, the ongoing economic crisis is putting pressure on publicly-funded health care systems across Europe, intensifying the decline of interventional card...

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Forced to Pay for Autism Care In Landmark Case

DETROIT, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The family of an autistic child filed a motion in federal court today to confirm settlement of a class action against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. The family alleged in the suit that the insurer wrongfully refused to cover behavioral therapy for children wi...

World Health Assembly Forced to Postpone Decision on Viral Hepatitis

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- - Global Epidemic Kills One Person Every 30 Seconds and One Million People Will Die Before the World Health Assembly Meets Again in 2010 Ahead of the second annual World Hepatitis Day, the World Hepatitis Alliance today called on govern...

Boycott Prevails in Sham SEIU Vote; Lawmakers and Advocates Join Healthcare Workers in Opposing Forced Union Merger

Less than 10% of 309,000 eligible voters cast ballots in statewide election while caregivers file over 125,000 protests LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a statewide vote of healthcare workers conducted by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), b...

Philip Morris International Forced to Drop Another Concert Sponsorship; Philippines Health Department Applauded for Taking Action

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: For the second time in a month, Philip Morris International has had to withdraw sponsorship and promotion of a concert in a developing country after com...

Has Hollywood's Diet Obsession Forced the US Government to Take Action?

National Institute of Mental Health currently conducting a study regarding Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as a treatment for Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Hollywood isn't the only place where unhealthy weight loss is developing into a crisis. BDD is similar to other disorders that respond well to Cog...

Graduates Forced to Join Millions of Uninsured Americans

AUSTIN, Texas, May 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Across the state this May, Texas college and university graduates might find themselves collecting more than just a diploma and a tassel. For many, graduation means an increase in debt, and a decrease in health insurance. (Logo: http://www.ne...

Higher Balance Institute Forced to File Suit to Defend Itself

After months of being the victim of continuous false and harmful statements, grass-roots meditation company, Higher Balance, files suit to defend itself. After failed attempts at seeking a peaceful resolution they seek to find a positive. The silver lining? Recovered damages gained given ...

California Nursing Home, Homecare Workers Vote Overwhelmingly to Preempt Forced Transfer

OAKLAND, Calif., March 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In an unprecedented election, nursing home and home healthcare workers overwhelmingly have voted to remain members of United Healthcare Workers-West, demonstrating their unwillingness to be forcibly transferred to another Service Employees I...

Hospital Chain and Hand Picked Union, SEIU, Forced to Cancel Rigged Election After Protests by RNs and Other Employees

'A Victory for Employees, Patient Care, and Union Democracy' OAKLAND, Calif., March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- After public exposure and protests, the Catholic Healthcare Partners chain and its hand picked union, the Service Employees International Union, today cancelled rigged elections -- call...

New York, the City That Roars 24/7, is Forced to Quiet Down

The City that Never Sleeps and Makes a Lot of Noise has had to turn it down a notch after a tougher new noise code took effect this week . But where there are 8,000,000 New Yorkers, can decibels really drop? The city's Department of Environmental Protection has a phone line, 311, for qualit...

Girl With Cancer Forced to Undertake Treatment

Leah Beth Richards, an eight year old cancer patient may be forced to undertake treatment in spite of her apparent //reluctance to continue with the painful radiotherapy. Having beaten the condition called Wilm’s Tumour in two distinct episodes spanning over six years, Leah has been confronted by t...

Pregnant HIV Positive Woman Forced To Abort Fetus On Her Own

A pregnant HIV-positive woman in Kolkata was forced to abort her fetus on her own after hospital staff declined to help her after they came to know about her status. //The incident occurred last month in a state-run Kolkata hospital. Reuters quoted Roshni Mulani, a mother of a two-year-old ch...

Teenage Girls are Forced To Have Unwanted Sex

Dr. Margaret J. Blythe and her colleagues at the Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis say in a new study that teenage girls feel pressurized into having unwanted sex //. Unwanted sex occurs often within the sexual relationships of teens,' the researchers write in the June issue of ...

NHS Forced to Borrow Money at Rates of 10 percent

Rising debts are forcing NHS to borrow money at rates of 10 percent from NHS banks. These rates are much higher than those offered by other street banks. Traditionally the NHS// in collaboration with the Department of Health lent money with no charge. However from April the charge on borrowing...

Transplant Head Honcho forced to dismount

The Abdominal Transplant Program, beset with administrative problems, experienced another upheaval. In a recent statement, The UCSD communicated its decision to relieve // Dr. Hart, the Director of the program for liver and kidney transplants, of his administrative responsibilities. Notwithstanding...

Democracy Not To Be Forced On People

A Penn state researcher in his new book 'The Failure of Democratic Nation Building: Ideology Meets Evolution' Dr. Steven A Peterson, professor of politics, says that Democracy should not or cannot be forcibly thrusted on a nation. Humans are social beings with an intrinsic need for hierarchica...

Cancer Patients Forced To Wait For Over Two Months

Over 25% of Scottish patients suffering from cancer have been compelled to wait for more than the two-month target across the UK meant for initial treatment // . This is resulting in further deterioration in the conditions of the patients where lung and breast cancer are concerned. The April to...

Seniors: Get Your Checkbooks Ready

... laboratories that specialize in serving seniors in rural areas, nursing homes and home health settings will be the hardest hit. Many of them will be forced out of business, and worst of all, with no one to replace their services to these most vulnerable citizens." Congress has previously rejected t...

NMPI Launches Fifth Portable Cardiology Unit

...anding growth can be attributed to increasing demand for in-office imaging services. "As Medicare continues to cut reimbursements, practices are forced to look to alternate revenue streams. This is where NMPI comes in. Our simple equipment and personnel leases meet all regulatory standards and provi...

AARP Responds to Health Reform Scare Tactics

... ensure that their wishes are followed. "To suggest otherwise is a gross, and even cruel, distortion -- especially for any family that has been forced to make the difficult decisions on care for loved ones approaching the end of their lives. "AARP is committed to improving the quality, effecti...

FRC Action's Tony Perkins Challenges Planned Parenthood President to Debate

...r to Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards inviting her to debate the question of taxpayer-funded abortion and whether or not citizens would be forced to fund abortion under the current health care reform bills. "The nation's largest abortion provider continues to make public accusations that ...

Fastrack Release First Integrated HME Billing, Infusion Pharmacy & Home Care Agency Software in a Microsoft Environment

...erations providing Home Medical Equipment, Durable Medical Equipment, Home Care Agency and Infusion services and products, that up until now have been forced to use three or more systems. Since many of their patients are the same, this has resulted in dual entry of data, the inability to produce one statem...

Minority and Women's Advocacy Groups Send Letter to California Attorney General Jerry Brown Requesting Investigation Into Discrimination by Health Insurance Companies

... work. Denying patients in pain access to medication is more than a quality-of-life issue. When a single mother suffering from fibromyalgia is forced to try multiple pain treatments that do not work, she often must miss work, and arrange childcare and travel, which threatens her livelihood and abili...

FRC: The Truth Hurts Planned Parenthood and NARAL

...aying for abortion. "As the House Energy and Commerce Committee meets to vote on several pro-life amendments that would ensure taxpayers aren't forced to pay for abortions within any publicly subsidized program, pro-abortion advocates are jittery that their dream of federally-funded abortion on deman...

Governor Eliminates Funding to Domestic Violence Programs

...al cuts. Shelters receiving money through this program will, on average, lose 30% of their budgets, and it is already clear that many programs will be forced to close. "State funding to domestic violence programs has been proven to save lives, and also millions of dollars in health care, law enforce...

Patrick Rummerfield Teams with Eric Westacott Foundation and Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation to Help Young Quadriplegic Boy

...ory in January 2009, at the age of 10, by becoming the youngest patient to undergo a surgical procedure that replaced the breathing unit he once was forced to use (weighing over 200 lbs) with a much smaller and lighter one. This surgery has allowed adult quadriplegics to sail solo and skydive. "W...

Catholic Charities, Vincent De Paul Society Supporting Abortion-Providing Healthcare Plan, Says ALL

...ngress. "There is no social justice in rationing charity," said Judie Brown, president of American Life League. "Millions of taxpayers will be forced to subsidize abortion, contraception, euthanasia and bureaucratic denial of health care to the poorest of the poor." The Society of St. Vincen...

FRC Action Launches TV Ad Campaign On Government Health Care Takeover

...eality - rationing and taxpayer funded abortions. Patients, particularly the elderly, will face denial of vital treatments while at the same time be forced to pay for abortions. The ad urges viewers to tell Congress to oppose the government takeover of health care. The ad also urges opposition to ...

Hanger Orthopedic Group, Inc. Reports $0.31 EPS for the Second Quarter 2009 and Raises Full Year EPS Guidance

...mance triggered an acceleration of preferred stock dividends once the Company's average closing price of its common stock price exceeded the Company's forced conversion price of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock by 200% for a 20-trading day period. This event accelerated the payment of Series A Conv...

Betsy McCaughey Rallies to Protect Seniors & Your Healthcare Choices

...ernor of New York State who railed against HMO abuses in the 1990s, including launching bans on drive-thru mastectomies and drive-thru deliveries that forced women out of the hospital too soon. In 2004, she founded the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID), a national educational campaign to s...

RetireSafe Blasts AARP for Supporting Plan to Pay for Health Care on the Backs of Seniors

...s supporter's comment represents the concerns of many seniors across America. Phillips pointed out that 40 million plus older Americans will be forced to foot the bill for this ambitious reform scheme. He said, "Many of these same older Americans have paid Medicare taxes for their entire working live...

Medicare Cuts Will Force Many Cancer Centers To Close, Stop Seeing Medicare Patients, Lay Off Staff, According To ASTRO Survey

...te or close their practices, 43 percent said their cancer patients would be forced to travel more than 50 miles round-trip, for radiation therapy treatments. ... have no insurance, and we treat them. With these Medicare cuts, we will be forced to close," said a survey respondent from rural North Carolina. C...

Mayor Julian 'Jolly' Reseueollo Dialysis Center Officially Opens Doors With Support From Bridge of Life - DaVita Medical Missions

... The first patient to receive kidney dialysis at the new Philippines facility was Virginia Rosario, a 57-year-old ER nurse in San Carlos. Virginia was forced to stop working on the emergency room floor of the local government hospital because of kidney failure. When she found out about the new dialysis clin...

Pence Amendment Passes Rules Committee; Set for Friday Vote

...millions of dollars killing millions of future taxpayers," said Shaun Kenney, executive director of American Life League. "Why are the American people forced to fund this vile organization? It's time our legislators represent the will of the people against Planned Parenthood's powerful Washington lobby." ...

The Community Oncology Alliance Responds to President Obama's Press Conference Comments Regarding Cancer Patients

...tem has chipped away for years and our cancer care delivery system is now in crisis. Though it urgently needs to be fixed, we pray that reform is not forced through to meet a schedule, but thought through to meet the needs of covering costs to save the lives of cancer patients. "In last night's pr...

Jury Awards Valley Medical Center Patient $1.8 Million for Nursing Negligence

...actions of Renton, Washington's Valley Medical Center and its staff caused Ellen Sandbo partial paralysis and a host of debilitating conditions, which forced her move into a nursing facility, where she remained until just before her death on April 29, 2009. Ellen Sandbo went to Valley Medical Cent...

Medicare Drug Plan Still Needs Work

... Part D. In California, that shift resulted in seniors losing a relatively rich array of benefits. In general, the commercial plans in which they were forced to enroll offer more-limited drug formularies, greater cost-sharing and the potential for greater barriers to accessing care because of various utiliz...

Association of Peruvian Anchovy Producers Pursues MSC Certification

...n the world by volume. Due to fishing and environmental pressures (El Nino events), the Peruvian anchovy fishery collapsed in 1972. The government was forced to take drastic measures, going so far as to close the fishery, but with proper management, it has recovered. Even frequent El Nino events, especially...

Advocates for Health Millennium Development Goals Unite to Demand World Leaders Honor Funding Commitments

...vernments to partner with civil society to strengthen accountability from recipient countries. "We are already seeing people die and families forced further into poverty by healthcare costs as a direct result of this global economic crisis," said Dr. Lola Dare, Executive Secretary of the African Co...