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West Virginia Hospital Overradiated Brain Scan Patients, Records Show
By WALT BOGDANICH
A large West Virginia hospital seriously overradiated patients suspected of having strokes with CT scans for more than a year after similar episodes prompted federal officials to alert hospitals nationwide to be especially careful when using those types of scans, interviews and documents show.
The patients, at Cabell Huntington Hospital in Huntington, W.Va., were overdosed with radiation until late November, records show, even after the Food and Drug Administration had publicly issued its final report on hundreds of overdoses involving brain scans at other hospitals and the errors had been discussed publicly in Congress and by state officials and professional organizations.
Shortage of grocers plagues Mass. cities
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/03/07/shortage_of_grocers_plagues_mass_cities/?page=full
Public employee unions will pitch plan on health insurance
Proposal to come as soaring costs frustrate leaders
HEALTH CARE | GLOBE EDITORIAL
Romney elevates GOP debate
March 7, 2011
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NECESSITY BEING the mother of reinvention, Mitt Romney has set the stage for a substantive discussion of health care reform among Republican presidential candidates — a discussion that goes well beyond the tweets and sound bites that most of his potential competitors have offered.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2011/03/07/romney_elevates_gop_debate/
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2011/03/07/romney_elevates_gop_debate/
Drug giants’ profits threatened by expiring patents
At the end of November, Pfizer stands to lose a $10-billion-a-year revenue stream when the patent on its blockbuster drug Lipitor expires and cheaper generics begin to cut into the company’s huge sales.
The loss poses a daunting challenge for Pfizer, one shared by nearly every major pharmaceutical company. This year alone, because of patent expirations, the drug industry will lose control over more than 10 megamedicines whose combined annual sales have neared $50 billion.
http://www.boston.com/business/healthcare/articles/2011/03/07/drug_giants_profits_threatened_by_expiring_patents/
http://www.boston.com/business/healthcare/articles/2011/03/07/drug_giants_profits_threatened_by_expiring_patents/
SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 2011
Fixing America's Health Care Reimbursement System
This post is authored by Brian Klepper and first appeared at Kaiser Health News:
A tempest is brewing in physician circles over how doctors are paid. But calming it will require more than just the action of physicians. It will demand the attention and influence of businesses and patient advocates who, outside the health industrial complex, bear the brunt of the nation's skyrocketing health care costs.
A tempest is brewing in physician circles over how doctors are paid. But calming it will require more than just the action of physicians. It will demand the attention and influence of businesses and patient advocates who, outside the health industrial complex, bear the brunt of the nation's skyrocketing health care costs.
Senate Dems Consider Health Care Fix That Could Hit Poor Consumers The Hardest
WASHINGTON -- Democrats on the Hill are growing increasingly convinced and, in some cases, concerned that in an effort to offset the cost of repealing a tax requirement in the president’s health care bill, the party will settle on a policy that jacks up insurance prices for low-income Americans.
First Posted: 03/ 7/11 05:37 PM Updated: 03/ 7/11 05:37 PM