Miscellaneous

• Study Shows Colonoscopies May Not Be As Accurate As Previously Thought

  Greg Webb | December 29, 2008 8:00 AM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  For years doctors have believed colonoscopies, the screening test for colorectal cancer, prevented 90 percent of cancers, but a new study shows they might actually only prevent 60 percent to 70...

• Employees Seeing Fewer Employer-Sponsored Health Care Plan Options

  Greg Webb | December 02, 2008 8:00 AM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Many employers are doing away with health benefits, and even those that still offer them are cutting back the options. If an employer does offer benefits, the options are likely limited to plans...

• Gulf War Syndrome is Real Says Congressionally Mandated Panel

  Greg Webb | December 01, 2008 8:00 AM | 6 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Gulf War syndrome is real and afflicts one-fourth of the 700,000 U.S. troops who served in the War, says a panel report issued in November. A congressionally mandated scientific panel released the...

• AARP Faces Senate Inquiry Due To Misleading Marketing

  Greg Webb | November 25, 2008 9:59 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  The AARP, the lobby for older Americans, has hired an outside investigator to look into the sale of some of its more popular health insurance products after a Senate inquiry found evidence of...

• Study Shows Vitamin C and E Do Not Prevent Major Heart Events

  Greg Webb | November 23, 2008 8:16 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  A recently published eight-year study of more than 14,000 physicians has shown that taking vitamin C and vitamin E does not prevent cardiovascular disease. The findings for vitamin C are nothing new...

• Delays in Veterans Disability Claim Processing Results in Lawsuit

  Greg Webb | November 20, 2008 8:00 AM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  A lawsuit has been filed against the Department of Veterans Affairs by two advocacy groups representing almost 60,000 veterans. The lawsuit claims that the VA is taking up to four years to process...

• Federal Court Appointments Could Mark Shift in Judiciary

  Greg Webb | November 19, 2008 8:00 AM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  President-elect Barack Obama will be appointing federal appellate judges, and possibly multiple Supreme Court justices, without the difficulties that President George W. Bush had over the past eight...

• Big Business Prepares For A Fight In Washington

  Greg Webb | November 16, 2008 9:41 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  With President-elect Barack Obama’s victory and the legislative gains by other Democrats, big business now has to go on the defensive. Corporate America faired well under the Bush...

• Blood Transfusions Using Older Blood May Cause Infection

  Greg Webb | November 07, 2008 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Although the FDA allows blood to be stored for forty-two days, researchers have found that patients who are given blood stored twenty-nine days or longer are twice as likely to get a...

• Women Pay More Than Men For Health Insurance

  Greg Webb | November 06, 2008 9:45 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  According to new data from insurance companies and online brokers, there is a new gap in the cost of healthcare for men and women of the same age; women are paying much more than men for individual...