Newest Health Related Topics
5 Post(s) Found
On Thursday the billionaire owner of Insys Therapeutics was arrested and charged for bribing doctors and committing insurance fraud for the illegal distribution of Subsys, a Fentanyl under-the-tongue spray, meant for cancer patients. Federal charges include: racketeering, conspiracy to commit fraud, and conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback law.The indictment:"As alleged, these executives...[ Read More... ]
In June 2016, IKEA announced a recall of 29 million dressers after seven children were killed from the furniture falling on them. The recall involved about 8 million MALM chests and dressers and 21 million additional children's and adult chests and dressers sold by IKEA in the U.S. They include the 3-drawer, 4-drawer, 5-drawer, and 6-drawer models. It is very important to either...[ Read More... ]
Very informative article co-published by ProPublica and NPR, "The Last Person You’d Expect to Die in Childbirth":The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world, and 60 percent are preventable. The death of Lauren Bloomstein, a neonatal nurse, in the hospital where she worked illustrates a profound disparity: The health care system focuses on babies but often...[ Read More... ]
New study published in the BMJ medical journals: researchers from John Hopkins University School of Medicine estimate deaths from medical errors in the US to be 251,454 each year - about 9.5 percent of all deaths annually in the United States. Data was taken from Medicare and 13 other hospitals. This makes medical errors the third leading cause of a non-violent death in the U.S., ahead of...[ Read More... ]
The Zika virus is now known to not only be transmitted via mosquito bites, but also via sperm. The CDC has confirmed Zika has been sexually transmitted in Texas on Wednesday. The virus has spread to at least 29 countries. Friday the CDC has issued new safe-sex guidelines especially for pregnant women: "Men who live in or travel to areas of active Zika infections and...[ Read More... ]
