Medical News May 1st, 2008
Posted on May 1, 2008
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UCLA employee indicted for selling celebrities’ medical information
A former employee of a Los Angeles hospital has been indicted on charges of selling medical information about high-profile patients.
Charges against Lawanda Jackson, 49, were revealed Tuesday by a Los Angeles court.
Experts urge only limited testing of blood substitutes
Experimental blood substitutes should be tested only in patients at high risk of death, doctors and researchers said at a workshop reviewing the products.
more stories like this. Previous studies were too broad, putting participants at unnecessary risk, participants in the Food and Drug Administration meeting said yesterday.
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Boston Medical chief eyes expansion
The state’s health-care reform law has meant that the percentage of uninsured people coming to Boston Medical Center for free care has dropped dramatically, BMC Chief Executive Elaine Ullian said yesterday.
With nearly 362,000 Massachusetts residents now using the state’s new health-care plan, only about 11 percent of the medical center’s patients still have no health-care coverage, she said.
Medical privacy still isn’t protected
The Sun’s article on the Senate’s vote to bar discrimination based on the results of genetic testing (”Measure would bar use of information by insurers, employers,” April 25) failed to address the key problem with personal medical information in America: Why do insurers, employers and others have access to the data in the first place?
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ThedaCare plans $90M medical center project
ThedaCare of Appleton announced Wednesday it will undertake a three-year, $90 million redesign of nursing units and patient rooms at Appleton Medical Center and Theda Clark Medical Center.
Report Questions Quality of Medical Care for Workers in War Zones
An increasing number of federal employees are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, but it is not clear that the government’s policies go far enough to ensure they receive the best medical care or the most appropriate benefits, according to a congressional report released yesterday.
Stony Brook medical faculty air pay, morale gripes
Doctors at a medical school faculty meeting at Stony Brook University outlined their concerns over pay disparity, recruitment and low morale.
The polite hourlong session Tuesday with the dean of the school of medicine and the hospital’s chief executive left some feeling satisfied and others saying key questions had not been raised.
LSD May Shed Hippie Image With Swiss Medical Study (Update1)LSD May Shed Hippie Image With Swiss Medical Study (Update1)
May 1 (Bloomberg) — Four decades after the Grateful Dead and Timothy Leary made acid trips a counter-cultural rite of passage, Rick Doblin is trying to shake the drug’s hippie image and reclaim its use as a medicine.
BioForm Medical buys frown-line nerve deadening treatment for $12 million
Cosmetic surgery company BioForm Medical Inc. bought technology for deadening nerves to reduce facial wrinkles from a Colorado company.
US admits medical negligence in immigrant’s cancer death
The federal government has acknowledged it was negligent in the death of an immigrant whose cancer went undiagnosed for nearly a year while he was in custody.
The family of 36-year-old Francisco Castaneda filed a lawsuit after he was denied a biopsy while in custody and died of cancer.
Debt to Pontiac a hurdle to North Oakland Medical Center sale
A consortium of 72 physicians has expressed interest in taking over financially challenged North Oakland Medical Center in Pontiac, but there are major hurdles.
In a last ditch effort to survive, North Oakland Medical Center is asking the City of Pontiac to forgive $2.3 million in accrued debt and as much as $17 million in future payments so it can be privatized and sold.
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