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Low-income people with Medicare who sign up for new Part D drug plans and receive the additional subsidies an estimated 8.7 million people are projected to pay 83% less for prescription drugs in 2006 than they would have spent if the Medicare drug law had not been enacted, according to a recent report by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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In a move the transplant medicine community anticipated for several months, the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the entity designated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to coordinate organ transplants and donations in the United States, has adopted a position statement opposing private efforts to solicit deceased organ donors for transplant candidates when no personal bond exists between the patient and donor or donor family.
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Should a terminally ill 10-year-old have a say in determining her end-of-life care? Can a teenager make an informed consent to treatment? Questions of this type will be the mainstay of the Center for Pediatric Bioethics, the nation first center for bioethics solely dedicated to pediatrics, which will be located at Childrens Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle.
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Being proactive about health has gained lots of attention from consumers as well as health care providers, and testing for certain risk factors is part of that proactive approach.
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An analysis of the prescribing practices of 29 internal medicine residents in an inner-city Minneapolis clinic indicates that residents with access to sample pharmaceuticals were more likely to prescribe heavily advertised drugs and less likely to prescribe over-the-counter (OTC) drugs than their peers.
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The American Medical Association (AMA) is urging its members to support pilot studies of whether presumed consent and mandated choice policies could increase organ donations, while the nations organ matching system continues to be skeptical of the success of such programs in the United States.
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Newborns in every state are screened for disorders that, if undetected, could lead to disability or death; but while some states test for nine or more conditions, others test for only one or two. Now, efforts are being made to bring uniformity to testing nationwide and to determine what tests are the most crucial.
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A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committees recommendation that silicone gel breast implants be returned to the United States market after an essential ban of 13 years is being met with approval from some in the medical community and dismay by others.
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You think the patient before you suffering from minor acid reflux will respond just fine to over-the-counter antacids, and you tell her so. But before you ever saw her, she had already decided that that purple pill advertised on television is what she needs, and theres no changing her mind.
