Across the United States, life-saving or medically necessary drugs are running low — or running out — endangering care and increasing the odds of medication mistakes for a broad swath of patients.
When vital drugs run out, patients pay the price
Posted in Health by healthnutter 469 days agoWhat do hospitals charge? Costs confound patients
Posted in Health by healthnutter 589 days ago
Consumers — especially the uninsured — face many difficulties when they try to shop for the best price for hospital services.
Insurer revoked HIV patients’ coverage
Posted in Health by healthnutter 692 days ago
Fortis, now known as Assurant Health, targeted policyholders with HIV, revoking their insurance shortly after diagnosis. The insurance company was ordered to pay $10 million.
Health threats scare patients straight — briefly
Posted in Health by healthnutter 709 days ago
Patients often vow to change their ways, eat better and exercise more after a wake-up call such as a dangerously high blood pressure reading, but what's the true shelf-life of a health scare? Not as long as you might think.
1 in 4 hospitalized swine flu patients put in ICU
Posted in Health by healthnutter 852 days ago
A new government study shows that one quarter of Americans who were sick enough to be hospitalized with swine flu last spring wound up needing intensive care, and 7 percent of them died.
Mesothelioma Lawsuit
Posted in Sports by sudhi01 870 days ago
I found this blog about how to file a Mesothelioma Lawsuit with info about symptoms, treatment, and diagnosis.
Cost of surgery? Secret prices confound patients
Posted in Health by healthnutter 872 days ago
Flower shop owner Bob Hausheer would like to know why he can't walk into a doctor's office and see a list of prices. The 45 year old recently had surgery but until he got the bill, he had no idea what it would cost him.
Push to fight malnutrition in cancer patients
Posted in Health by healthnutter 995 days ago
The statistic is shocking: Severe malnutrition and weight loss play a role in at least one in five cancer deaths. Yet nutrition too often is an afterthought.
Too broke for the ER, patients flee
Posted in Health by healthnutter 1003 days ago
Amid a lingering recession, doctors say more patients are refusing tests, procedures, overnight stays and other emergency care because the ill are afraid they can't afford it.
Swine flu fears send sniffling patients to ERs
Posted in Health by healthnutter 1016 days ago
Worried patients suffering fever, cough and other symptoms crowded emergency departments across the U.S. as word of a widening swine flu outbreak spread, health officials said.
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