by Research Team | Nov 1, 2014 | Health News
Medicare said Friday it will consider paying doctors to counsel patients about their options for end-of-life care, the same idea that spurred accusations of “death panels” and fanned a political furor around President Barack Obama’s health care law...
by Research Team | Nov 1, 2014 | Health News
Health officials had placed the individual in isolation at a Tulsa hospital as a precaution because the person had recently visited Sierra Leone, Guinea or Liberia. The Tulsa Health Department says it followed recently approved state guidelines on Ebola once the...
by Research Team | Nov 1, 2014 | Health News
A new internal government report the Cox Washington Bureau obtained finds in 2012 Medicare paid for pricey HIV drugs for more than 150 patients who were already dead. “The first job of Medicare should be to figure out who is a live and who is dead,” said...
by Research Team | Oct 31, 2014 | Health News
The National Football League on Thursday is expected to ask a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by former players who say team officials gave them powerful painkillers and other drugs to keep them on the field without regard for their long-term health. NFL...
by Research Team | Oct 31, 2014 | Health News
Marlboro maker Altria Group Inc.’s profit rose slightly the third quarter as higher prices helped to offset decline in the number of cigarettes it sold. The owner of the nation’s biggest cigarette maker, Philip Morris USA, posted earnings Thursday of...
by Research Team | Oct 31, 2014 | Health News
The Spanish flu pandemic a century ago prompted the last large-scale quarantines in this country. Now the Ebola outbreak is raising new questions about whether ordering quarantines is an effective way to fight deadly disease in the U.S. Health experts say putting...
