WellCare Revises Past Financial Statements To Include Refunds Owed To Florida, Illinois Medicaid Programs WellCare officials on Monday announced that the
health insurer has revised financial statements from 2004 through mid-2007 to include refunds owed to the Florida and Illinois Medicaid programs, the St. Petersburg Times reports (Hundley, St. Petersburg Times, 7/21).
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comSt. Louis Post-Dispatch Examines Treatment Options For Pregnant Women With Cancer The St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Sunday examined the "life-and-death" decisions pregnant women with cancer must make and the treatment options available to them. According to the Post-Dispatch, as many as one in every 1,000 pregnant women in the U.S. is diagnosed with cancer.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNew York Times Magazine Examines Continuing Debate On IVF Although in vitro fertilization developments over the 30 years since the first infant was born using the fertility treatment have been "miraculous," it has become "easy to forget the disturbing questions about IVF -- its practices, ethics and impact on public
health -- that do remain and are left lar
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comWoman Brain Damaged After Detox Diet Gets Settlement Dawn Page, 52, a conference organizer and mother of two, from Faringdon, near Swindon in Oxfordshire, UK, received 810,000 pounds in an out of court settlement following allegations that the detox diet she followed on the advice of a nutritional therapist caused her brain damage.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comBat Care Guidelines - A Guide To Bat Care For Rehabilitators, The Bat Conservation Trust The Bat Conservation Trust (BCT) has produced Bat Care Guidelines, in association with the BVA AWF, RSPCA and RCVS Trust, aimed at veterinary professionals, wildlife hospitals and new rehabilitators. The document is split into basic sections including '
health and safety', 'rescue and collection' and 'ailments and treatments' which aim to provide minimum guidelines for bat care.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comKaiser Daily Health Policy Report Feature Highlights Recent Blog Entries While mainstream news coverage is still a primary source of information for the latest in policy debates and the
health care marketplace, online blogs have become a significant part of the media landscape, often presenting new perspectives on policy issues and drawing attention to under-reported topics.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comEnd Of Life Physician-Patient Communication: Ensuring Final Chapter Is Enacted With The Greatest Skill And Compassion Possible Although a growing body of research supports a link between effective communication and patient, family and physician satisfaction, doctors, including oncologists and other specialists who frequently care for terminal patients, do not routinely receive training in end-of-life conversations during medical school, residency training, or after they start to practice
medicine.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comTennessean Examines Physicians In State Limiting New Medicare Beneficiaries They See, Charging Concierge Fees In Two-Part Series The Tennessean in a two-part series examined how physicians in the state are limiting the number of new Medicare beneficiaries they will treat and how some are charging concierge fees to accept new beneficiaries.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com
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