Newtered: Gingrich's Congress emasculated the one agency capable of controlling health care costs and improving quality. Time to reverse the procedure.
If you've never suffered the agony of low back pain, don't worry--chances are you will. About two-thirds of adults are hit with low back pain at some time in their lives, and for many the pain is sufficiently unbearable to send them hobbling into the doctor s office. Yet...

Conflict of conscience.
Byline: The Register-Guard In its second groundbreaking gay rights decision this year, the California Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that the First Amendment's protection of the free exercise of religion does not permit doctors to discriminate against gays and lesbians by refusing to provide medical treatments, even...

What's the appeal? Trying to control managed care medical necessity decisionmaking through a system of external appeals.
[Ralph] Benedetto, 44, a disabled Medicaid patient, contracted hepatitis B 10 years ago from a blood transfusion he received after he was struck by a drunken driver. Two years ago, his doctors said his disease had progressed to the point where he could die at any moment without a...

Current legal intervention regarding "experimental" treatments must be changed: an analysis of high doses of chemotherapy with autologous bone marrow transplantation for breast cancer patients.
I. INTRODUCTION A 35-year old woman, mother of three children, suffers from Stage IV metastatic breast cancer.(1) After finding a suspicious mass in her right breast, she underwent a mastectomy.(2) Nine months of chemotherapy and radiation followed, making the woman extremely ill.(3) Despite efforts to battle the...

CoStasis Surgical Hemostat Helps Cancer Patient Enjoy Life, Continue Treatment.
Cohesion's Product Used Minimally Invasively to Halt Metastatic Cancer-Related Bleeding PALO ALTO, Calif., June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- CoStasis(R) surgical hemostat ("CoStasis") was recently integral in allowing a 62-year-old father of two and grandfather of three to resume his normal daily activities, free from...

COSTASIS SURGICAL HEMOSTAT HELPS CANCER PATIENT ENJOY LIFE, CONTINUE TREATMENT.
PR Newswire, London, June 27 This press release is transmitted on behalf of Cohesion Technologies Cohesion's product used minimally invasively to halt metastatic cancer-related bleeding Palo Alto, California - CoStasis(R) surgical hemostat ("CoStasis") was recently integral in allowing a 62-year-old father of two...

CoStasis Surgical Hemostat Helps Cancer Patient Enjoy Life, Continue Treatment.
Cohesion's Product Used Minimally Invasively to Halt Metastatic Cancer-Related Bleeding PALO ALTO, Calif., June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- CoStasis(R) surgical hemostat ("CoStasis") was recently integral in allowing a 62-year-old father of two and grandfather of three to resume his normal daily activities, free from...

Callaway Golf Founder Recovering From Gall Bladder Surgery.
CARLSBAD, Calif., April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Callaway Golf Company (NYSE: ELY) announced today that Ely Callaway, the Company's Founder, Chairman, President and CEO, successfully completed surgery to remove his gall bladder earlier this week. He is expected to recover from the surgery over the next two weeks...

CALLAWAY GOLF FOUNDER RECOVERING FROM GALL BLADDER SURGERY.
PR Newswire, London, April 27. This press release is transmitted on behalf of Callaway Golf Company. Carlsbad, California - Callaway Golf Company (NYSE: ELY) announced today that Ely Callaway, the Company's Founder, Chairman, President and CEO, successfully completed surgery to remove his gall bladder earlier...

The Beauty Holidays experience.
How would you like to have the vacation of your dreams and also come out more youthful, voluptuous and radiant than ever before? This is exactly what Renee Meddaugh, an African-American teacher based in New Jersey, got when she put together the grandest vacation she has always...