• bswift Publishes White Paper Explaining Emerging Health Insurance Exchange … – SunHerald.com

    Updated: 2012-02-29 17:00:46
    bswift Publishes White Paper Explaining Emerging Health Insurance Exchange …SunHerald.comCHICAGO — bswift, a national leader in software and services for employee benefits administration, today released a new white paper titled, Emerging Health Insurance Exchange Models: The Intersection of Public and Private Exchanges, authored by Don …and more » Go here to read more: outsourcing “white paper” [...]

  • IT-BPO industry hopes for Advance Pricing in this Budget – Hindu Business Line

    Updated: 2012-02-29 17:00:41
    IT-BPO industry hopes for Advance Pricing in this BudgetHindu Business LineIT-BPO companies and their tax advisors are hoping that the Advance Pricing Agreement (APA) which is provided for in the Direct Taxes Code to deal with transfer pricing matters will be introduced in the forthcoming Budget. Go here to read more: bpo – Google News

  • An Online Market for Medical Care

    Updated: 2012-02-29 15:00:33
    Can you buy health care the way you buy goods and services on eBay? Almost. A small, emerging online service called MediBid is letting providers bid to provide the care that patients need. Patients must be able to pay cash. They fill out medical questionnaires; they can upload their medical records; and they can request [...]

  • Popular Cholesterol Drugs Get New Warnings About Memory, Blood Sugar

    Updated: 2012-02-28 21:58:00
    Statins may also increase the risk slightly for high blood sugar and for developing Type 2 diabetes. People have also complained about memory loss and fuzzy thinking while taking the cholesterol-fighting drugs. Now the Food and Drug Administration wants that information added to the drugs' instructions.

  • Can iPhones Replace Doctors?

    Updated: 2012-02-28 20:30:09
    A French start-up, Withings, has created a blood pressure cuff for $129 that connects to an iPad or an iPhone. The cuff will automatically inflate, deflate and then record the pulse rate and the blood pressure. The app will graph the pressure over time, making trends easier to see. Withings also includes a connection to its Web [...]

  • Feds Accuse Texas Doctor In $350 Million Medicare Fraud

    Updated: 2012-02-28 20:24:00
    A Texas doctor and six co-conspirators indicted for an alleged long-running health care scam look to have set a new record for a medical practice: $350 million in fraudulent Medicare bills and $24 million under Medicaid over nearly six years ending in late 2011.

  • Rethinking Medicare Advantage Plans

    Updated: 2012-02-28 18:30:05
    One in four Medicare enrollees has chosen to join a private plan. Yet, Medicare pays 10% more to these plans, other things equal. Does that mean they are less efficient? Not necessarily, according to a NEJM Perspective by Jeet Gurum and Bob Moffit. The extra payments are the artificial consequence of a screwy bidding system. [...]

  • How is the Kotlikoff-for-President Campaign Coming?

    Updated: 2012-02-28 16:30:29
    Scott Burns gives an update. Larry’s “purple plans” would transform the economy. Here is a summary: Replace current federal taxes with a progressive consumption tax. Restrict federal revenues to about 20% of GDP. Privatize Social Security. Voucherize health care. Replace Dodd-Frank with 100% reserve banking.

  • Medicaid Stops Paying for Non-ER, ER Care

    Updated: 2012-02-28 14:15:28
    The new cuts, set for April 1, focus on about 500 diagnoses including common infections, mild burns, strains and bruises. If an enrollee comes to an emergency room and is diagnosed with one of these conditions, the Washington Medicaid program won’t pay the hospital and doctors…Some 43 states have Medicaid initiatives designed to deter unnecessary [...]

  • Austerity in Europe Puts Pressure on Drug Companies

    Updated: 2012-02-28 08:24:47
    [NYT] Profits at pharmaceutical companies have been declining or showing little growth for the last year as austerity measures across Europe lead to cuts in health care spending. Some analysts say this trend could continue until at least 2014. Budget cuts mean that many European governments are not willing to pay ...

  • Yaz Gallbladder Injury Settlements: Houston, There Is a Problem

    Updated: 2012-02-27 19:25:11
    : , Drug Recall Lawyer Blog Published by Miller Zois , LLC Home Website Practice Areas Contact Us Home Yasmin Yaz Yaz Gallbladder Injury Settlements : Houston , There Is a Problem Previous Home Posted On : February 27, 2012 by Ronald V . Miller , Jr . Yaz Gallbladder Injury Settlements : Houston , There Is a Problem Share More YAZ Lawsuit Information Consolidation of Yaz Lawsuits Most Recent Yaz Claim Updates Main Miller Zois YAZ Lawsuit Website We have been writing a lot about imminent Yaz settlements . Let's be honest . We want to gin up traffic for the phase Yaz settlements because we want to get as many cases as possible . But when I say Yaz settlement okay , I'll stop , I'm annoying even myself I am talking about Yaz stroke , heart attack , blood clot , deep vein thrombosis ,

  • New Features of High Deductible Health Insurance

    Updated: 2012-02-27 18:30:38
    Here are some consumer tips from Pamela Yip of The Dallas Morning News (gated): Fourth-quarter rollovers: If you contributed a lot toward your deductible at the very end of last year, it can feel unfair that you need to start all over again in January. “Ask your insurer if they allow fourth-quarter rollovers,” said [Carrie [...]

  • Counterfeit drugs being sold in pharmacies, P.2

    Updated: 2012-02-27 17:52:25
    , Skip to navigation Skip to content Jump to Navigation Counterfeit drugs being sold in pharmacies , P.2 On behalf of Tracey Law Firm posted in Dangerous Drugs 27 February 2012 The fact that many counterfeit drugs being sold in pharmacies in the U.S . and around the world and do not have the beneficial active ingredients expected . This is only the tip of the iceberg of the problem . Many of these fraudulent medications have also substituted harmful substances for the expected . medicine Cheap adulterants are used to bulk up the volume of these bogus cures . Sick patients may wind up ingesting sawdust , talcum powder , yellow highway paint , gypsum , cement , or industrial chemicals used as solvents . In short , items never deliberately intended for human consumption , which can result in

  • BREAKING: New Rules on HSAs

    Updated: 2012-02-27 16:30:57
    HHS has issued a “guidance bulletin” which states how they intend to define the minimum “actuarial value” that health plans must meet starting in 2014. If a plan does not meet the minimum actuarial value, it cannot be sold in the individual or small group markets. Many advocates of HSAs and other consumer-driven plans have [...]

  • Recall of RegenErect

    Updated: 2012-02-27 14:02:39
    Drug Recall Lawyer Blog Published by Miller Zois , LLC Home Website Practice Areas Contact Us Home FDA Voluntary Recalls Recall of RegenErect Previous Home Next Posted On : February 27, 2012 by Ronald V . Miller , Jr . Recall of RegenErect Share The FDA has announced the recall of single capsule packet RegenErect , as it has been discovered that an active drug ingredient is not listed on the . label Labeled as a dietary supplement , it has been determined that RegenErect contains Tadalafil , an FDA-approved drug used as treatment for male Erectile Dysfunction ED Use of these products may pose a threat to consumers because it may interact with nitrates found in some prescription drugs such as nitroglycerin and may lower blood pressure to dangerous levels . Consumers with diabetes , high

  • Birth Control Pill Recall – Unintended Pregnancies

    Updated: 2012-02-27 13:19:27
    Drug Recall Lawyer Blog Published by Miller Zois , LLC Home Website Practice Areas Contact Us Home FDA Voluntary Recalls Birth Control Pill Recall Unintended Pregnancies Previous Home Next Posted On : February 27, 2012 by Ronald V . Miller , Jr . Birth Control Pill Recall Unintended Pregnancies Share A recall has been announced of seven lots of Norgestimate and Ethinyl Estradiol Tablets , due to a packaging error , causing the possibility for the pills to be out of sequence . The affected pills are the Norgestimate and Ethinyl Estradiol Tablets USP , 0.18 mg 0.035 mg , 0.215 mg 0.035 mg , 0.25 mg 0.035 mg . It has been determined that the blisters were rotated 180 degrees within the card , reversing the weekly tablet orientation . This has additionally caused the lot number and expiration

  • Hearts, a New Novel

    Updated: 2012-02-26 17:35:48
    You can follow my novel in progress Hearts, about a cardiac surgeon who can fix other people’s hearts but not his own, in real time as I write it on twitter @heartnovel. Follow “me” on twitter @dougbremner. If you don’t want to read the Hearts novel backwards, you can read it from the beginning on [...]

  • Limiting Individual Prerogatives in Healthcare

    Updated: 2012-02-25 14:24:59
    Now that President Obama’s healthcare reform has become the law of the land, it is time for us to prepare ourselves for the real fight. Namely, will individual Americans ultimately be restrained, by law or by subterfuge, from using their own resources to pay for their own medical care?  This notion is not as far-fetched [...]

  • Counterfeit drugs being sold in pharmacies, P.1

    Updated: 2012-02-24 17:49:38
    , Skip to navigation Skip to content Jump to Navigation Counterfeit drugs being sold in pharmacies , P.1 On behalf of Tracey Law Firm posted in Dangerous Drugs 24 February 2012 Counterfeit drugs are being sold in a number of U.S . pharmacies . The potential harm is lethal , as patients relying on such concoctions are not receiving the beneficial active ingredients of the actual medications prescribed by their doctors . Those who release such bogus drugs into the marketplace are reaping huge profits at the expense of sick people's health and . lives Examples cited by the U.S . Food and Drug Administration FDA include counterfeit pills purporting to be Avastin , an extremely costly medication administered through intravenous injections for patients seeking to survive . cancer Earlier ,

  • Recall of Infants' Tylenol Oral Suspension

    Updated: 2012-02-17 20:11:23
    Drug Recall Lawyer Blog Published by Miller Zois , LLC Home Website Practice Areas Contact Us Home Children Recall of Infants' Tylenol Oral Suspension Previous Home Next Posted On : February 17, 2012 by Ronald V . Miller , Jr . Recall of Infants' Tylenol Oral Suspension Share Approximately 574,000 bottles of Infants’ Tylenol Oral Suspension are being . recalled The recall affects the grape flavor , 1oz . bottles of Tylenol Oral Suspension , and has been made as a precaution after receiving a small number of complaints from consumers who reported difficulty using the Infants’ Tylenol SimpleMeasure dosing system . SimpleMeasure includes a dosing syringe , which a parent or caregiver inserts into a protective cover , or flow restrictor , at the top of the bottle to measure the proper dose .

  • Metal hip replacement devices present risks to patients

    Updated: 2012-02-15 18:43:10
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Jump to Navigation Metal hip replacement devices present risks to patients On behalf of Tracey Law Firm posted in Dangerous medical devices 15 February 2012 New research recently presented at the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons in San Francisco shows that defective hip joints can continue to adversely affect patients even after they are removed , sometimes for . years It has been known for several years that certain hip times , particularly those in which both the ball and cup are composed of metal , fail at faster rates than other types of hip . implants Last Year , the Food and Drug Administration ordered 21 manufacturers of the medical devices to study patients who received metal on metal implants . What has become clear is that , while some of

  • Athens struggles to rein in medical excess

    Updated: 2012-02-15 15:12:06
    [By Andrew Jack and Kerin Hope, FT.com] Antonis Karokis’ medicines business is being squeezed by price cuts and unpaid hospital debts. But he is stoical – after all, he enjoyed the years of excess when Greece was an unusually large market for drugs. “There were no controls on spending in the ...

  • Bayer: Pressure on Prices Has Bad Side Effects .

    Updated: 2012-02-14 15:05:13
    [Geoffrey Rogow, WSJ] —Marijn Dekkers, head of German drug-and-chemicals giant Bayer AG, says consumers don't give pharmaceuticals enough credit. The outspoken chairman of the board of management—the German equivalent of CEO—says patients often thank doctors and nurses but not the companies that made the medicines that helped cure them. Bayer's Marijn Dekkers, ...

  • MDL Bellwether Trials

    Updated: 2012-02-13 19:59:18
    Drug Recall Lawyer Blog Published by Miller Zois , LLC Home Website Practice Areas Contact Us Home Drug Companies MDL Bellwether Trials Previous Home Next Posted On : February 13, 2012 by Ronald V . Miller , Jr . MDL Bellwether Trials Share The idea of an MDL is to consolidate discovery , figure out what the cases are about , and whether they can be settled without a gazillion trials . So you do some discovery and , more often than not , you try a few cases and see if you can limit or even eliminate trials getting sent back to their home jurisdictions for . trial But in any piece of mass tort litigation , the quality of the individual cases is going to vary wildly . There are a lot of reasons for this that are case specific , but one value driver thread that runs though every case is the

  • Whitney Houston dies at 48, prescription drugs likely played role

    Updated: 2012-02-13 18:39:07
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Jump to Navigation Whitney Houston dies at 48, prescription drugs likely played role On behalf of Tracey Law Firm posted in Dangerous Drugs 13 February 2012 Our readers may have heard the news that pop singer Whitney Houston passed away over the weekend . She was 48 years old . According to the Beverly Hills Police Department , Houston was found in a bathtub in a room at the Beverly Hilton . Hotel Sources are reporting that coroner officials said the singer died from what appears to be a combination of Xanax and other prescription drugs mixed with alcohol . There had been some question as to whether Houston died from drowning , but it has been determined that there was not enough water in her lungs to support that . explanation Police have said that no

  • January 2012 Medication Label Changes

    Updated: 2012-02-13 13:18:40
    Drug Recall Lawyer Blog Published by Miller Zois , LLC Home Website Practice Areas Contact Us Home Drugs January 2012 Medication Label Changes Previous Home Next Posted On : February 13, 2012 by Ronald V . Miller , Jr . January 2012 Medication Label Changes Share Last month brought changes to sixty-three 63 medical product labels up from 40 changes in December with changes to the prescribing information to include any of the following areas : boxed warnings , contraindications , warnings , precautions , adverse reactions , patient package insert , and medication . guide For a complete detailed accounting of the label changes , please refer to the summary of meds . By clicking onto the drug name , you will be able to view the detailed summary , which will identify the safety labeling

  • Whitney Houston, Another Xanax Victim

    Updated: 2012-02-13 03:26:29
    The pop star singer Whitney Houston is another celebrity musician who is a victim of prescription medications. In this case xanax, or alprazolam, which likely combined with other substances contributed to her demise at the age of 48 when she was found partially submerged in a bathtub in a Los Angeles hotel. Caution [...]

  • Anniversary of My Mother’s Death

    Updated: 2012-02-13 02:36:44
    Today is the 46th anniversary of my mother’s death. I’ve never “remembered” it before, much less blogged about it, and this year months in advance I promised myself to not let myself slide through the anniversary in a haze of depression or amnesia, as I have usually done. [...]

  • New Book Out By Blogging Psychiatrists at Shrinkrap

    Updated: 2012-02-12 19:07:59
    The blogging psychiatrists at the Shrinkrap blog have a new book out about their lives as psychiatrists, called Shrinkrap: Three Psychiatrists Explain Their Work, with lots of useful information about psychotherapy, psychiatric medications, psychiatric diagnoses, and in general what it is like to be a psychiatrist. You [...]

  • Bookvisions Blog, Review of Goose That Laid the Golden Review

    Updated: 2012-02-09 17:49:44
    Check out Bookvisions blog review of Goose That Laid the Golden Egg here and follow her reviews on twitter @bookvisions. Also see the book on 99cent-books.com.

  • Celexa/Lexapro Cases filed in Cole County MO

    Updated: 2012-02-09 16:46:22
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Jump to Navigation Celexa Lexapro Cases filed in Cole County MO By Sean Tracey 09 February 2012 The Tracey Law Firm has filed several of their Celexa and Lexapro cases in Cole County , Missouri . Celexa and Lexapro are types of an antidepressant called Serotonin reuptake inhibitors SSRIs The Tracey Law firm has filed several lawsuits against Forest Laboratories in Cole County , Missouri , alleging that in utero exposure to Celexa and Lexapro has caused various types of birth defects , including Heart , Limb , Brain , and Neural tube defects . There are currently more than 60 such cases currently pending in Cole . County The Tracey Law Firm represents dozens of children whose birth defects may have been caused by Celexa and Lexapro . If you or someone you

  • Update to Zoloft litigation

    Updated: 2012-02-09 15:37:17
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Jump to Navigation Update to Zoloft litigation By Sean Tracey posted in Birth defects 09 February 2012 The Defendants in the Zoloft litigation have requested that the Federal courts establish a Multi-District Litigation proceeding MDL for all Zoloft cases . The defendants' goal is to move all Zoloft cases to Federal Court . nbsp The Defendants would also like to be situated in New York City where their Pfizer's headquarters is located . Unfortunately , one of the by products of an MDL is the inevitable delay of these proceedings . The Tracey Law Firm , along with other Plaintiff's counsel , have opposed this move , as New York is an extremely expensive location for litigation and unreasonably burdens Plaintiffs pursuing their cases . If the Federal court

  • Minnesota Medical Board ranked worst in nation

    Updated: 2012-02-08 18:36:21
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Jump to Navigation Minnesota Medical Board ranked worst in nation On behalf of Tracey Law Firm posted in Medical Malpractice 08 February 2012 Our Texas readers may be interested to know that the Minneapolis Star Tribune recently published a couple articles discussing the deficiency with which the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice deals with doctors who make medical mistakes or engage in professional . misconduct According to the articles , the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice received 728 complaints against doctors in 2011, but only initiated 32 actions ranging from suspension of a license to orders requiring a doctor to receive more training . Last year , Minnesota was the poorest ranked states in terms of the rate of discipline last year , coming

  • Follow the Conversation on What Doctors Don’t Tell You, on Jane Alexander Blog

    Updated: 2012-02-08 14:50:02
    Follow the conversation on what doctors don’t tell, medications, and side effects on the blog of UK writer a href=”http://www.janealexander.org/” title=”Jane Alexander” target=”_blank”Jane Alexander “Diary of a Desperate Exmoor Woman here. Read Jane’s books on alternative and wholistic health care here and [...]

  • Zometa Defense Verdicts

    Updated: 2012-02-06 19:42:29
    Drug Recall Lawyer Blog Published by Miller Zois , LLC Home Website Practice Areas Contact Us Home Novartis Zometa Defense Verdicts Previous Home Next Posted On : February 6, 2012 by Ronald V . Miller , Jr . Zometa Defense Verdicts Share Novartis got successive wins last week in jury trials in Kentucky and Missouri , in the Zometa lawsuits . Plaintiffs in both cases alleged that Zometa caused osteonecrosis of the jaw ONJ which is just an awful condition that can lead to chronic pain and disfigurement , and is difficult to . treat The battlefield in both of the lawsuits , as is often the case in drug cases , was the adequacy of the warning . Novartis apparently convinced these jurors that it had properly warned about the osteonecrosis of the jaw side effect that has come for thousands with

  • Utah man sues manufacturer of Duragesic fentanyl patch

    Updated: 2012-02-06 18:33:58
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Jump to Navigation Utah man sues manufacturer of Duragesic fentanyl patch On behalf of Tracey Law Firm posted in Dangerous Drugs 06 February 2012 A Utah man recently filed a lawsuit against pharmaceutical company ALZA-a subsidiary of Johnson Johnson-alleging that his wife died in May of 2010 as a result of using a defective fentanyl patch . Fentanyl is a potent painkiller estimated to be at least 80 times stronger than . morphine The woman allegedly died after using a Duragesic patch , which delivers fentanyl a powerful opioid . One Duragesic patch may provide up to 72 hours of pain . relief When worn properly , the manufacturers say patients should not receive any harmful doses of the powerful drug , but the man in this case said that his wife had been

  • Husband of Missing Susan Cox Powell Blows Himself and His Kids Up

    Updated: 2012-02-06 04:32:41
    The husband of missing Utah woman Susan Cox Powell blew himself and his kids up today after a court-ordered visit from Washington State DHSH to his home in Graham, WA, with his kids. He claims he went on a midnight camping trip in the middle of the winter with his two small children [...]

  • Indie Author Tag Fest

    Updated: 2012-02-06 02:12:34
    Come help out Indie authors (those not published by major publishing houses, like myself) by tagging books on Amazon via the Romancing the blog website. This helps Indie authors get their books out in front of the public and searches. Scroll to the bottom of each book’s page on Amazon and click on the [...]

  • Dear Doctor, Cipro and Levaquin Might Make Your Tendons Snap Off

    Updated: 2012-02-05 22:35:14
    That’s a translation into person speak from a letter I got a couple of years ago from Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals that started out with “Dear Healthcare Professional” and went on to their new “black box warning” for their antibiotic drugs Avelox (moxifloxacin hydrochloride) and Cipro (ciprofloxacin). Here is their warning: Fluoroquinolones, including Avelox/Cipro, are associated [...]

  • Sean Tracey gets 4.1 million dollar verdict in Maritime case

    Updated: 2012-02-02 16:38:05
    Attorney Sean Tracey and Scott Greenlee recieved a 4.1 million judgment for an injured Seaman in a Jones Act case. The Jones Act provides a more lenient negligence standard, because of the desire to protect Seaman who are involved in a highly dangerous profession. Their client, was severely njured when his leg was crushed agaisnt a Cavel on a barge in Baytown, Texas. The plaintiff's employer, Marquette transportation Co was found negligent because hey did not provide a safe work environment for him as a Seaman.

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