Posts tagged Care

• Feds Seek to Change Drugmakers' Practices With Pfizer Settlement

  Greg Webb | September 13, 2009 2:41 PM | 3 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A record $2.3 billion settlement with Pfizer has reinforced the Obama administration’s stance on health-care fraud. Recently, “Pfizer unit Pharmacia & Upjohn pleaded guilty to a...

• Family Medicine Doctor Numbers Declining

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

  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...

• Former Insurance Executive Outs Insurance Companies in Healthcare Debate

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

  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...

• Many College Athletes Have Insufficient Health Insurance

  Greg Webb | July 26, 2009 7:58 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  In 2005, the National College Athletic Association (NCAA) began requiring universities guarantee their athletes have adequate health insurance due to many years of concerns that college athletes had...

• Report Says Children’s Products Contain Dangerous Chemicals

  Greg Webb | June 08, 2009 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  A March publication from the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics reported finding formaldehyde and 1,4-dioxane, a trace contaminant of chemicals used in cosmetic products, in 55 children’s...

• MRSA Infections Typically Caught In Hospitals, Killing 18,000 People Each Year

  Greg Webb | December 09, 2008 8:00 AM | 4 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  MRSA infections kill more than 18,000 people a year, and six out of seven people infected with the antibiotic-resistant germ contract it at a health care facility. The germ, methicillin-resistant...

• Employees Seeing Fewer Employer-Sponsored Health Care Plan Options

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

  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...

• AARP Faces Senate Inquiry Due To Misleading Marketing

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

  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...