Using a simple checklist to make sure operating teams completed important safety tasks before, during and after operating, reduced surgical deaths and serious post-operative complications by roughly one third.
Dr. Stephen Sundlof, director of the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, gives advice on how to avoid peanut butter products that might be contaminated with Salmonella.
List of peanut butter-containing products recalled because of concerns about Salmonella contamination grows. To learn about the latest recalls go to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) update page, which includes a link to a searchable database of recalled products. Consumers can also call a helpline maintained by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and [...]
Chronic diseases such as heart failure,high blood pressure, arthritis and diabetes don’t generally go away—but they can be managed, writes Dr. Carolyn Clancy, director of the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in her latest column. “If you or a loved one has a chronic condition,” she writes, “you know that managing it can [...]
Seattle Children’s Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics has posted a webcast of its forum on the ethics of growth attenuation in children with profound disabilities that was held last Friday, Jan. 23rd. This issue came to the public’s attention in 2006, when doctors from Seattle Children’s reported in the journal Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine the case [...]
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has now identified 501 cases of infection with the strain of Salmonella that has been linked to peanut butter and peanut butter paste products produced in the Peanut Corporation of America’s plant in Blakely, Georgia. The cases have been found in 43 states, including 13 in [...]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers not to take Venom HYPERDRIVE 3.0, a weight-loss product that is sold as a dietary supplement but which the FDA says contains a potentially dangerous drug sibutramine. Sibutramine is an appetite suppressant but is considered a controlled substance because it is associated with the risk [...]
The ETHEX Corporation has recalled scores of its generic prescription drug products because they may not have been manufactured to industry standards known as Good Manufacturing Practices. Recently, the company recalled some of its products when it was discovered some of its tablets were over-sized and contained higher than the labelled doses. The products are [...]
In Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure, Dr. Offit examines the the theories of those who hold that vaccines cause autism.
Whole Foods Market has recalled its Whole Foods Carob Energee Nuggets in four states, including Washington state. Whole Foods’ product joins a growing list of items being recalled because they contain a peanut paste produced by the Peanut Corporation of America, whose plant in Blakely, Georgia has been identified as the source of a nationwide [...]
Gates gives $255 million to $630 million polio eradication push The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a $255 million challenge grant to Rotary International for its Global Polio Eradication Initiative. The Rotary will match the Gates grant with $100 million raised by its own members over the next three years. In addition, the United [...]
The first lecture of the University of Washington School of Medicine’s six-part “Mini-Medical School” series will be held February 3rd. The weekly programs are scheduled for 7 p.m., Tuesday evenings, from February 3 until March 10, 2009, in Hogness Auditorium, Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Center, University of Washington, 1959 N.E. Pacific Street, Seattle. The series will cover such subjects as [...]
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Some insurers deny ER coverage to people who have been drinking
Laws in more than half the states permit insurers to deny payment for medical services related to alcohol or drug use. Faced with the prospect of not getting paid for care, some ER personnel sidestep the problem by simply not testing patients’ blood or urine for alcohol.
Travel insurance can protect your wallet — and your health on vacation
Think your regular health insurance policy will cover you if you get into medical trouble overseas?
Don’t bet on it.
Out-of-network care is expensive — but a couple of new options help
A new database lets you find out the prevailing rates for medical procedures in your area, and the 2010 health-care reform law provides better protection when people receive out-of-network emergency care.
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