Affordable Care Act helps keep Medicare affordable   WASHINGTON, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 27, 2011.  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that Medicare Part B premiums in 2012 will be lower than previously projected and the Part B deductible will decrease by $22. While the Medicare Trustees predicted monthly premiums[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–Oct. 26, 2011, 1:28 p.m. EST  Wall Street’s control of health care is exposed in a march/speak-out today that starts at the offices of Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield, a subsidiary of WellPoint, the largest publicly-traded health insurance company. We are gathering at Liberty Square at 3pm and marching at[Read More…]

FTC Chairman Asks Congressional Supercommittee to Reduce the Deficit and Lower Nation’s Health Care Costs by Restricting Pay-for-Delay Deals Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 25, 2011.  According to an overview of industry data released by the staff of the Federal Trade Commission, in Fiscal Year 2011, pharmaceutical companies continued a recent anticompetitive trend[Read More…]

RNs Blast Cypress Fairbanks Policy They Say Forces Nurses to Work When Sick Endangering Patients Houston, TX–(ENEWSPF)–October 25, 2011.  Registered nurses at Houston’s Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center will hold a press conference Thursday to warn the public about a reckless hospital policy they say pushes nurses to work when sick,[Read More…]

Greater attention to infection prevention is needed for vulnerable population Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–October 25, 2011.  Each year more than one million patients receive cancer treatment in an outpatient oncology clinic. Despite advances in oncology care, infections from both community and health care settings remain a major cause of hospitalization and death[Read More…]

TORONTO, ON–(ENEWSPF)–October 24, 2011.  Young children exposed to a harshly punitive school environment are more inclined to lie to conceal their misbehaviour than are children from non-punitive schools, a study of three- and four-year-old West African children suggests. The study, published in the journal Child Development, also indicates that children[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 24, 2011.  Many of you want to get elaborate this year. We’ve seen those super-cool pumpkins with detailed carvings, too … And while we aren’t saying to those carving cravings, please beware of doing a hatchet job to fingers. Give the child a spoon. Let her scoop. Give[Read More…]

Twenty-five Federally Qualified Health Centers in Illinois to receive funding, participate in a program to improve care Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 24, 2011.  Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, 25 community health centers in Illinois will receive funding over three years to improve the coordination and quality of care they deliver to[Read More…]

Illinois has one of the highest numbers of lead poisoning cases in the nation  SPRINGFIELD, ILL.–(ENEWSPF)–October 24, 2011.  Almost a quarter of a million children in the United States have blood lead levels high enough to cause significant damage to their health, according to the Centers for Disease Control and[Read More…]

NIH-funded study also finds math disabled students fail to catch up to classmates Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–October 24, 2011.  Children who start elementary school with difficulty associating small exact quantities of items with the printed numerals that represent those quantities are more likely to develop a math-related learning disability than are their[Read More…]