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1. Routine Care, Unforgettable Bills
When Sean Recchi, a 42-year-old from Lancaster, Ohio, was told last March that he had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, his wife Stephanie knew she had to get him to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Stephanie’s father had been treated there 10 years earlier, and she and her family credited the doctors and nurses at MD Anderson with extending his life by at least eight years.
Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killing-us/#ixzz2LUzwtW00
Patients can refuse a flu shot. Should doctors and nurses have that right, too? That is the thorny question surfacing as U.S. hospitals increasingly crack down on employees who won’t get flu shots, with some workers losing their jobs over their refusal.
“Where does it say that I am no longer a patient if I’m a nurse,” wondered Carrie Calhoun, a longtime critical care nurse in suburban Chicago who was fired [...]
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has called on people to avoid physical contact, after the deadly Ebola virus spread to the capital, Kampala.
Fourteen people have died, including one in Kampala, since the outbreak began in western Uganda three weeks ago, he said in a special broadcast.
Ebola is one of the most virulent diseases in the world.
It is spread by close personal contact and kills up to 90% of those who [...]
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
July 3, 2012
Rep. Kevin Brady, a Texas Republican, warns that the IRS will hire up to 16,500 new enforcers in the coming months to go after citizens who do not pay the new Obamacare tax. The expansion is said to include criminal investigators who “make cases” in order to levy penalties on scofflaws.
Brady cites a recent analysis by the Joint Economic Committee and staff at the House Ways and [...]
Translation from an article in dutch from a flemish newspaper.
DAILY DEATHS DUE TO ACUTE SHORTAGES IN GREEK CLINICS
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/960/Buitenland/article/detail/1447443/2012/06/0…
Some pictures can be seen in the above link.
Touching testimonial about healthcare cuts in Crete.
At the state clinic in Rethymnon signs can be seen: ‘Healthcare for everyone’ and ‘No merger’. If the ministry of health gets its way, the general hospital of this town on Crete will be reduced to a medical center [...]
Translation from an article in dutch from a flemish newspaper.
DAILY DEATHS DUE TO ACUTE SHORTAGES IN GREEK CLINICS
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/960/Buitenland/…
Some pictures can be seen in the above link.
Touching testimonial about healthcare cuts in Crete.
At the state clinic in Rethymnon signs can be seen: ‘Healthcare for everyone’ and ‘No merger’. If the ministry of health gets its way, the general hospital of this town on Crete will be reduced to a medical center [...]
High-speed pressure jet administers medicine through the skin
Device is similar to the system used by Dr Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy in Star Trek
Medicine could be delivered via a high-speed pressure jet through the skin in a new needleless method developed by scientists which could spell the end of painful injections.
The Star Trek-style device, unveiled by scientists yesterday, can be programmed to deliver a range of doses to varying skin depths.
The breakthrough [...]
Kay Allen had just started work, and everything seemed quiet at the Cornerstone Care community health clinic in Burgettstown, Pa. But things didn’t stay quiet for long.
“All the girls, they were yelling at me in the back, ‘You gotta come out here quick. You gotta come out here quick,’ ” said Allen, 59, a nurse from Weirton, W.Va.
Allen rushed out front and knew right away what all the yelling was [...]
Women who took emergency contraceptive pills after unprotected sex were up to 20 times more likely to get pregnant compared with those who had IUD inserted
Girls as young as 11 and 12 should be fitted with coils after unprotected sex rather than being given the morning after pill, say researchers.
They have calculated that it is almost 100 per cent effective at preventing pregnancies compared to the emergency pill which has [...]
It is many people’s worst nightmare.
But for one young man it became reality as he woke up in agony during a lung operation but was unable to tell the surgeons what had happened because he’d been temporarily paralysed by medication.
Mathias Strom – from Vaxjo, southern Sweden – could feel every cut of the surgeon’s scalpel and listened to the medical team chatting about his progress as he endured 35 minutes [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 1, 2011
Debt deal will reduce federal services, jobs
WASHINGTON – American Federation of Government Employees National President John Gage today issued the following statement in response to the debt limit deal announced Sunday by Congressional leaders and the White House:
“The manufactured debt crisis is over for now, but the real crisis looms larger than ever. More than 14 million Americans have lost [...]
Doctors and nurses face the threat of disciplinary action if they are caught wearing clothes which expose ‘excessive cleavage’ Photo: REX
10:29AM BST 15 Jun 2011
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust has issued a strict new uniform policy for all staff after a series of complaints from patients.
Doctors and nurses face the threat of disciplinary action if they are caught wearing clothes which expose their ”midriff” [...]
By Ezra Klein, Published: June 6
Everyone in Washington claims to want the same thing lately: a “serious conversation” about health-care costs. So let’s have one.
Republicans have a plan that has been tried repeatedly but that has never worked. Democrats have a plan that might work in theory, but it is untested at the scale they’ll need for it to work in practice. And both parties are [...]
Harrowing testimony of torture, intimidation and humiliation from a doctor arrested in the crackdown on medical staff in Bahrain has revealed the lengths to which the regime’s security forces are prepared to go to quash pro-democracy protests.
Interviews obtained by The Independent from inside Bahrain tell of ransacked hospitals and of terrified medical staff beaten, interrogated and forced into signing false confessions. Many have been detained, their fate unknown.
Inspired by the [...]
Everyone expected a number between 5% and 6.7% on the Irish rescue interest rate. However, when one considers that the NPRF, which will serve as a source of capital in the rescue package has a zero interest rate (Ireland will not be paying interest to itself), and amounts to 20% of the total bailout figure, it appears that the blended rate of new money is actually [...]
UK Government to introduce austerity measures on British population in emergency measures in an attempt to keep up interest payments on its massive sovereign debt, 300,000 jobs to be slashed in the public services and with some analysts says this could be more like 700,000 job losses, which is massive as percentage of total UK workforce, with of course more jobs to go as a consequence in the private sector, [...]
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