Miscellaneous

• Guardian Insurance Cancels Policies in Certain States

  Greg Webb | October 25, 2009 6:19 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Guardian Life Insurance, a New York-based insurance company, has begun canceling lines of coverage and specific policies in entire states in order to avoid paying high-cost claims; they are...

• Professional Football Careers May Lead to Memory-Loss

  Greg Webb | October 05, 2009 1:00 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  A recent telephone study done by the University of Michigan at the request of the NFL has found that retired NFL players may be more prone to cases of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease than...

• Private Insurance Bureaucracies Abusing the System?

  Greg Webb | September 30, 2009 2:52 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  A House subcommittee held a hearing last Tuesday regarding private insurance bureaucracies’ abuse of the health insurance system. The hearing was part of a continuing Democratic effort to...

• Ghostwriting Issues Abound in Scientific, Medical Publications

  Greg Webb | September 17, 2009 8:43 PM | 1 CommentCharlottesville, VA

  A September 11 article published in the New York Times entitled, “Ghostwriting Is Called Rife in Medical Journals,” reports on the findings of a recent survey conducted by the editors of...

• New Study Shows Imaging Tests Expose Patients To Excessive Radiation

  Greg Webb | September 08, 2009 1:00 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  According to a new study in The New England Journal of Medicine, at least four million Americans under the age of sixty-five are exposed to high doses of radiation annually from medical imaging...

• “Don’t Let Us Get Sick” – Consumer Reports Surveys Patients, Nurses on Hospital Sanitation

  Greg Webb | September 07, 2009 6:46 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Consumer Reports (CR) recently took a “side-by-side” survey regarding the sanitary conditions of hospitals across the country. In 2009 it interviewed 731 nurses who worked in different...

• Family Medicine Doctor Numbers Declining

  Greg Webb | September 01, 2009 5:40 PM | 4 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  In recent years, there has been a decline in the number of medical students who want to pursue family medicine, though many say it is the frontline for wellness and preventive-care programs that can...

• Antidepressant Use in US Doubled To Over 10% in Ten Years

  Greg Webb | August 27, 2009 11:04 AM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  A recent study released by Columbia University has found that compared to data from 1996, the number of Americans taking antidepressants doubled to 10.1 percent of the U.S. population in 2005,...

• Study - Gym Class Injuries Increased Dramatically Since 1997

  Greg Webb | August 27, 2009 10:57 AM | 1 CommentCharlottesville, VA

  A new pediatric study has shown that children these days are more likely to get injured in gym class than they were a decade ago. Dr. Lara McKenzie of National Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio,...

• Former Insurance Executive Outs Insurance Companies in Healthcare Debate

  Greg Webb | August 19, 2009 9:34 PM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Wendell Potter, the former head of communications for health insurance giant Cigna, understands why many people across the country are showing up to town hall meetings extremely upset when members...