Posted by: drugsinus on: December 10, 2009
Swine-flu shots are going begging in Germany, and the government is selling some of its vaccine on the foreign market, NPR’s Shots blog notes. Only 5% of the overall population and 15% of doctors have gone to the trouble of getting vaccinated. It’s one of a few European countries where demand for the vaccine has [...]
Posted by: drugsinus on: December 2, 2009
Here’s a health-care overhaul detail that we hadn’t heard about until just now: The health-care bills in both the House (p. 1,515) and Senate (p. 1,233) would require vending machines to display calorie counts for the food they dispense. The requirement, which wouldn’t apply for people who own fewer than 20 vending machines, is part [...]
Posted by: drugsinus on: October 6, 2009
As part of San Francisco’s push toward broader health-insurance coverage, city businesses with 20 or more employees must offer health insurance or pay a fee that goes toward health care for the uninsured. Now, the U.S. Supreme Court wants to know what the Obama administration thinks of that idea. The city’s restaurant association has been [...]
Posted by: drugsinus on: July 9, 2009
About 200 people on the Marco Polo have symptoms of the bug A post-mortem examination is due to be carried out on a man who died during a suspected outbreak of a virus on board a cruise liner in the Cromarty Firth. Doctors have said about 200 people on board the Marco Polo are showing [...]
Posted by: drugsinus on: July 9, 2009
McAllen hospitals have state of the art equipment In the country that reveres the free market, competition is supposed to drive quality up and costs down. But not in healthcare – and not in McAllen, Texas. In the past 15 years, this sleepy town has reinvented itself as a boom place for modern medicine. Wherever [...]
