Wrong in Medical News

Ex- White House Drug Spokesman Urges 'Double Drug Treatment'; Bob Weiner and Policy Analyst Zoe Pagonis Highlight 'Drug War's Wrong Focus'

WASHINGTON and BALTIMORE, July 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "With 20.8 million Americans needing treatment but unable to get it, Congress should double the $5 billion currently budgeted for treatment and prevention," say former White House Drug Policy Spokesman Bob Weiner and analyst Zo...

Deep Budget Cuts Will Add to Unemployment Rolls at Wrong Time

HARRISBURG, Pa., July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- A state budget based entirely on cuts will accelerate Pennsylvania's job losses and delay any economic recovery in the state when the recession is over, according to a labor economist with the Keystone Research Center. State House leaders recently annou...

Expert Explains Why Propofol Was the Wrong -- and Possibly Fatal -- Drug for Michael Jackson

CORONA DEL MAR, Calif., July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Propofol, the chemical name for Diprivan, is formulated for ONLY intravenous use. It is used for general anesthesia or sedation in operating rooms, GI suites, and intensive care units. Propofol is intended only for use under medical supervision i...

Teens are heading in wrong direction: Likely to have sex, but not use contraception

Between 2003 and 2007, the progress made in the 1990s and early 2000s in improving teen contraceptive use and reducing teen pregnancy and childbearing stalled, and may even have reversed among certain groups of teens, according to the study "Changing Behavior Risk for Pregnancy Among High School S...

The Pope is Wrong on Condoms

WASHINGTON, March 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Jon O'Brien, president of Catholics for Choice, issued a response to Pope Benedict's statement on condom use. "As the pope traveled to Africa, he chose this moment to make what appears to be his first unequivocal statement opposing condom use. I...

RNC: Wrong Prescription

As Sebelius Sweeps Into Washington, Will Her High-Tax Tendencies Decimate The American Health Care System? AFTER PROPOSING BILLIONS IN NEW TAXES, OBAMA ANNOUNCES SEBELIUS AS HHS SECRETARY WASHINGTON, March 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released today by the Republican Na...

FactCheck.org Gets It Wrong on Stimulus Package

NEW YORK, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement from Betsy McCaughey, Ph.D., Chairman/Founder of Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths: Americans need to know how the health provisions hidden in the recently enacted stimulus package will affect them. To inform the p...

Free antibiotics: The wrong prescription for cold and flu season

With an epidemic of antibiotic-resistant infections growing, experts are warning grocery-store pharmacies that antibiotics giveaways are an unhealthy promotional gimmick. If grocery stores want to help customers and save them money during cold and flu season, the Infectious Diseases Society of Ame...

New SEIU Television Ad: Thelma Drake is 'Wrong for Veterans, Wrong For Virginia'

TV Ad Details Multiple Votes Against Quality Health Care for Veterans WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new television ad by SEIU details the multiple votes Congresswoman Thelma Drake has cast against improving health care for our nation's veterans, making the case that she i...

'Standard' Glucose Test May Be Wrong One for Obese Children

Fasting blood glucose test less reliable than glucose stress test in detecting prediabetes SUNDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- The current standard screening test for prediabetes in children often fails to detect the condition, Canadian researchers contend. Ironically, the findings ...

What's wrong with selling kidneys?

Doctors in this week's BMJ debate the issue of selling kidneys. A regulated system of compensation for living donors may be the solution to the growing shortage of kidneys for transplantation, writes Arthur Matas, Professor of Surgery at the University of Minnesota. In many areas of the U...

Pelosi: 'President Bush's Proposed Medicare and Medicaid Cuts Are Exactly the Wrong Medicine'

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today following news reports that President Bush plans large cuts in Medicare and Medicaid when he unveils his fiscal 2009 budget next week: "The President is proposing to once again slash he...

Diagnosis of Heart Attack Can Be Wrong

Study finds false positives occur 9.2% of the time in emergency rooms TUESDAY, Dec. 18 (HealthDay News) -- When doctors in the emergency room believe that someone is having a heart attack, they are mistaken 9.2 percent of the time, a new study indicates. Given that minutes matter wi...

DNC: Bush Republicans Have the Wrong Priorities

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement in response to President Bush sending Congress a request for an additional $46 billion in war spending, for a total of $196 billion, while he vetoed a bill to give h...

ALL's Judie Brown: Supreme Court is Wrong on Contraception Ruling

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to the Supreme Court's refusal to hear a case defending a religious institution's right to exclude contraception from its health care coverage, Judie Brown, president of American Life League, issued the following statement: The exerci...

Connecticut Catholic Conference Wrong to Allow 'Plan B' in Catholic Hospitals

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "The actions of the Connecticut Catholic Conference are an outrage and a crime," said Judie Brown, president of American Life League. "It's bad enough to allow so-called emergency contraception in Catholic hospitals, but to claim that the Church ...

Jade Goody Believes Miscarriage was 'God's Punishment' for Wrong Deeds

Reality TV star Jade Goody has revealed that she feared that her recent miscarriage was god's way of punishing her for her wrong deeds . The 25-year-old, who lost her baby when she was three months pregnant, said that though she has been coping with bad times since the beginning of this yea...

Study Finds Most Women Getting Wrong Dose of Fertility Drugs

A new study has alarmingly found that more than 90 per cent of women undergoing fertility treatments may be getting the wrong doses of fertility drugs meant to stimulate their ovaries . This, the researchers state, not only means that the drugs may not work properly, but also that they may b...

Cancer Children in US Get Wrong Dosage of Chemotherapy New Study

Chemotherapy itself is a dreadful regimen, with all kinds of side effects. What happens when wrong dosage is administered, to children at that? That is what seems to be happening in the US. A new study reveals that such errors resulting further treatment. The problem has a lot to do with lack...

Cancer-virus Vaccine Targets Wrong Age Group

Lawmakers looking to force preteen girls to take Gardasil, a new vaccine against a virus that causes cervical cancer, are targeting// the wrong age group, cancer data shows. Middle-school girls inoculated with the breakthrough vaccine will be no older than 18 when they pass Gardasil's five-y...

Skimpily Dressed Dolls Send Wrong Cues to Young Girls

A team of psychologists have expressed concern over the influence of scantily clad dolls on young minds, which could be creating// a wrong self-image. This could be one important reason for the rise of eating disorders, they aver. An American Psychological Association communiqué has voiced a...

Orissa Hospital, Surgeon Fined for Wrong Treatment

A consumer forum has slapped a fine of Rs.110,000 on a private hospital and its doctor-owner in Orissa for wrongly treating a woman//. The Balasore district consumer redressal forum Saturday fined the Balasore-based City Clinic and its owner Pratima Pradhan for wrongly operating on the uterus...

Computer Misreading Results In Wrong Prescription

The prescription for an anti-smoking pill Zyban, given by a general practitioner, was misread by a computer, as Viagra.// Smokers who were residents of Glasgow, were trying to kick the smoking habit and were prescribed Zyban an anti-smoking pill. This was mistakenly read as Viagra due to a co...

Panic Gripped Young Man After Wrong Diagnosis With HIV

Patna: A young man and his family spent a week of mental trauma after a private hospital in Patna wrongly diagnosed him as HIV positive//. He was cleared of the disease after tests at a government hospital. When Ramparvesh Kumar Sharma, a resident of Nalanda district, was tested positive for H...

Woman Critically Ill After Getting Wrong Blood

Ranchi: A woman at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Science (RIMS) here is battling for life after doctors gave her the wrong blood group.// Leela Devi, who had been admitted to RIMS for a surgery, received B+ blood instead of her A+ group and is presently in the ICU. Doctors say the next 48 ...

Hughes Syndrome Mimics MS Causing Wrong Diagnosis

A former motorcycle racer, John Simper, 60, from Ipswich who had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), 26 years ago believes// he could be saved from ending his life in a wheelchair. Mr. Simper is now confident that he has been suffering from a condition known as Hughes Syndrome, which...

Surgeon Suspended As He Removes the Wrong Kidney

Jerome Blanchard a surgeon working at the Middlesex Hospital was suspended a she removed the properly functioning kidney from a woman//. The General Medical Council (GMC) panel found him guilty and suspended him for a period of 12 months. The chairman of the panel Judith Worthington said that the ...

Movies Represent Coma In A Wrong Way

Movies often misrepresent coma, in a way that is powerful enough to change public perceptions about the same. If the trend were allowed to continue, it could have a dangerous impact// on real-life situations involving coma, highlights a new study published in the latest issue of Neurology, the scie...

93 Year Old Widow, Suffering From Dementia Dies After the Ambulance Dropped Her at a Wrong Address

Mrs. Purnell, who was ailing with chronic lymphatic leukemia and dementia, was a regular with a day unit at Barry Hospital in South Wales//, especially run for elderly and mentally decrepit clients. An ambulance team was in charge of picking her up at the close of the day and drop her at the reside...

Government Advertisement Faces Criticism For Wrong Salt Claim

Concerns have been raised against a Food Standards Agency advertisement, for misleading public opinion about salt consumption, without appropriate evidence. // An investigation was ordered following the wrong projection that a family involved in a salt-challenge had lowered their hypertension by co...

Eating wrong foods may cause heartburns at night

Heartburns during the night or nocturnal gastro esophageal reflux may be due// to wrong eating habits, like consumption of carbonated drinks. Nocturnal heartburns often lead to disturbed sleep and excessive feelings of daytime sleepiness, apart from being cause of other disease. Nocturnal gast...

Being Obese Increases Ones Risk Of A wrong Diagnosis During Medical Imaging

In addition to being at-risk for various health conditions, obese people may also be cutting their chance of being accurately diagnosed // during medical imaging. According to a recent study researchers say obesity can limit the ability and accuracy of imaging equipment scans, such as computed t...

Two doctors suspended for wrong brain surgery

The Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn is in news for the wrong reasons. The New York State Health Department and the Long Island College Hospital are investigating the circumstances that led doctors René Kotzen and Mike W. Chow to operate on the wrong side of a patient’s brain to remove a l...

Parking Charges at Hospitals Morally Wrong

Charities and patients' groups told MSPs that charging patients and their relatives for parking at hospitals is ‘morally wrong'. // They also voiced their concerns about increasing number of people who would be affected by parking because of centralisation of hospital services. Patien...

Patients Should Be Entitled to "Humane Compensation" if Drug Trials Go Wrong

Professor Desmond Laurence, of the University of London says that most clinical trial patients are under the wrong impression that they compensated for any problem that // arises with the drug. This situation is prevailing because of contracts that are badly worded and do not make anything clear to...

Michael Jackson Could Have Been Going Through 'Male Menopause', says SimplyAgeless411

...hormone therapy. "They are fed up with going to their doctors only to be told that their blood tests are 'normal' and that there is nothing physically wrong with them," she says. "A standard blood test doesn't screen all of your hormone levels and will not reveal the full scope of a man's hormonal profile....

SimplyAgeless Believes Michael Jackson Could Have Been Going Through 'Male Menopause'

...hormone therapy. "They are fed up with going to their doctors only to be told that their blood tests are 'normal' and that there is nothing physically wrong with them," she says. "A standard blood test doesn't screen all of your hormone levels and will not reveal the full scope of a man's hormonal profile....

Corrected: Secretary of Health Urges Pennsylvanians to Get Immunized

...ening statewide during the month of August. The correction is to the date of the event in Philadelphia; an announcement issued on July 31 included the wrong date: Philadelphia County : Aug. 18 - 7:05 p.m. - Adult immunization awareness night with the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizen's Bank...

Crucial Finding Advances Spinal Cord Injury Research

...rmone was placed in the correct target, axons grew into it and formed electrical connections called synapses. When the growth factor was placed in the wrong target, the researchers found that the axons grew into that target as well, according to the study published online Aug. 2 in the journal Nature Neur...

Cheerleading is Leading Cause of Catastrophic Injury in Young Women

...ung cheerleader trying out for the high school varsity squad, 14-year-old Laura Jackson had everything going for her. But when a back flip went wrong during a try-out without a trained spotter on hand, Laura landed on her head fracturing her neck and damaging her spinal cord. Laura is now paralyzed ...