Retail clinics may cut into primary care: study
Reuters via Yahoo! News Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:27 PM PDT
(Reuters) - The health clinics in U.S. pharmacies and other retail stores may be convenient, but they may also take a bite out of the traditional doctor-patient relationship, according to a U.S. study. Retail health clinics operate mainly out of chain pharmacies, but they're also in some grocery stores and "big box" stores like Wal-mart. They now number more than 1,300 nationwide, according to ... |
Judge backs Catholic firm over contraception mandate
Reuters via Yahoo! Maktoob News Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:16 PM PDT
(Reuters) - A Catholic-owned family business in Michigan does not have to comply with the provision of the new U.S. healthcare law that requires private employers to provide employees with health insurance that covers birth control, a federal judge in Detroit has ruled. U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland, in a ruling late Wednesday, temporarily blocked the government from forcing the owner of ... |
UPDATE 1-U.S. judge backs Catholic firm over contraception mandate
Reuters via Yahoo! Maktoob News Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:13 PM PDT
* Catholic-owned Michigan business wins temporary relief * Second temporary exemption for a family business Nov. 1 (Reuters) - A Catholic-owned family business inMichigan does not have to comply with the provision of the newU.S. healthcare law that requires private employers to provideemployees with health insurance that covers birth control, afederal judge in Detroit has ruled. U.S. ... |
NICE backs melanoma drugs after price cuts
Reuters via Yahoo! Maktoob News Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:06 PM PDT
LONDON (Reuters) - Two new drugs for skin cancer have been recommended for use on Britain's state-run health service after the rival manufacturers - Roche and Bristol-Myers Squibb - agreed to cut their prices. The move underscores the growing pressure on drug companies to cut deals with austerity-hit European governments in order to prove their expensive new medicines offer value for money. ... |
UK cost agency backs melanoma drugs after price cuts
Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:01 PM PDT
LONDON (Reuters) - Two new drugs for skin cancer have been recommended for use on Britain's state-run health service after the rival manufacturers - Roche and Bristol-Myers Squibb - agreed to cut their prices. The move underscores the growing pressure on drug companies to cut deals with austerity-hit European governments in order to prove their expensive new medicines offer value for money. ... |
Nine more cases of meningitis reported in outbreak
Reuters via Yahoo! Maktoob News Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:37 PM PDT
(Reuters) - Nine more cases of deadly fungal meningitis were reported from an outbreak tied to steroid medications shipped by a Massachusetts company, bringing the national total to 377 cases, U.S. health officials said on Thursday. No new deaths were reported on Thursday and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Virginia had revised down the number of deaths there to two from ... |
U.S. FDA finds bacteria in New England Compounding drugs
Reuters via Yahoo! Maktoob News Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:19 PM PDT
(Reuters) - U.S. health officials have found bacteria in lots of an injected steroid and a heart drug made by New England Compounding Center, the pharmacy linked to contaminated steroids that have claimed the lives of at least 28 people. The Food and Drug Administration said it identified different types of bacteria in three separate recalled batches of NECC's preservative-free betamethasone and ... |
Local hospitals hit with readmission penalties
U-T San Diego Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:16 PM PDT
Under penalties mandated by the recent federal health care law, eight local hospitals are getting lower Medicare payments for having higher-than-expected readmission rates. |
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