A public consultation is being held this week on planned changes to mental health services in the Glasgow area.
On Wednesday June 25th, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is holding a public meeting to discuss proposals to remove services from the Vale of Leven Hospital and transfer them to Glasgow’s Gartnavel Royal Hospital.The Helensburgh Advertiser reports [...]
The need for meaningful health care reform remains one of the hottest topics in the public as we approach our national election. Health Sexual An important new study, Health Insurance in the prestigious Annals of Internal Medicine, reveals a growing consensus among practicing physicians that our broken health care system would be best [...]
NEW ORLEANS - If you think the prescription drug you took for headaches caused your heart attack, the Food and Drug Administration says you can’t sue the maker for injury if it met agency standards.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission says you can’t sue a mattress maker if your mattress bursts into flame despite meeting CPSC [...]
As the Chicago meeting approaches, the three largest fertility clinics in the U.S. for the first time say they plan to endorse the concept of a registry, albeit on a restricted basis, said Dr. Charles Sims, medical officer of California Cryobank. The company has prepared a proposal with Xytex Corp. and Fairfax Cryobank.
He said executives [...]
An important element is being overlooked in the healthcare debate between the Democratic presidential candidates: namely, whether the plans they propose are constitutional.
The largest difference between their healthcare plans is that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton would “mandate” that everyone (with limited exceptions) purchase private health insurance. Although Sen. Barack Obama’s plan also contains a mandate, [...]
A Conservative administration would increase health spending by up to an extra
%26pound;28 billion a year, a leading moderniser has told The Times. Andrew Lansley,
the Shadow Health Secretary, gave a long-term commitment that under the
Tories health spending will rise to take up an extra 2 per cent of GDP.
%26ldquo;I think we are bound to have rising [...]
GPs will be required to tell the employers of sick patients what tasks they
can perform in a new %26ldquo;well note designed to reduce the number of people on
incapacity benefit, The Times has learnt.
Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, will this week prepare the ground for
controversial changes, saying that family doctors need to %26ldquo;change our
sick-note culture into [...]
The state’s new subsidized health insurance program will cost “signficantly” more than the $869 million proposed in the governor’s FY2009 budget just two months ago, the state’s top financial official said today.
The budget gap looms despite steps taken today to hold down state costs — approval of a tough contract with insurers, and increased premiums [...]
The debate about changing Michigan’s rules guiding health insurance for individuals who aren’t covered by employer or government plans may not end anytime soon.
During the next few weeks, Senate Republicans will debate at least two separate proposals affecting the market. The competing proposals come on top of a plan that already has been passed by [...]
The same day Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. signed a bill aimed at eventually overhauling health care in Utah, new data showed the number of uninsured state residents has dropped for the first time since 2001.
But the dip, credited to last year’s strong economy, isn’t big enough to warrant relaxing, health officials and politicians said, particularly [...]
