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- Ban-OxyContin petition launched
- More join fray over doctor pay
- Nurse-midwives deliver
- Judge tosses out MRSA suit
- Little things influence doctors, UM finds
- Health costs for Miami family: $20K
- FL health leaders: We can cut costs
- Center offers unusual spinal therapy
| Ban-OxyContin petition launched Posted: 5/22/2009 © Health News Florida An online petition to ban the painkiller OxyContin, posted two weeks ago in Tampa, has attracted more than 2,000 signatures and is headed for a national audience at an FDA meeting next week. Doctors who treat pain patients view the petition as "very dangerous." |
| More join fray over doctor pay Posted: Several consumer groups in Florida have called on Gov. Charlie Crist to veto SB 1122, which lets doctors get paid without joining insurance networks. But Sandy Leon, who's on the board of one of the groups, disagrees; so does St. Petersburg Times columnist Howard Troxler. |
| Posted: It's still early days, but the Orange County Health Department's project of matching nurse-midwives with patients is paying off with a C-section rate of less than 10 percent. |
| Posted: 5/21/2009 Palm Beach Post A circuit judge has thrown out the first of several lawsuits filed by former patients of Martin Memorial Hospital who claim they contracted a dangerous staph infection while being treated there. |
| Little things influence doctors, UM finds Posted: 5/18/2009 New York Times Doctors like to think they're impervious to drug-company influence. But a University of Miami study found that even little things, like cups and pens, have an insidious pull. |
| Health costs for Miami family: $20K Posted: Private healthcare costs in Miami are the highest of 14 major U.S. cities in a consulting firm's report. A family of four with a PPO averaged $20,282 in health costs last year, almost 21 percent above average. |
| FL health leaders: We can cut costs Posted: 5/16/2009 © Miami Herald Dying patients could spend their last hours at home instead of in intensive care. Legal protections would let doctors run just the tests that matter, not every conceivable one. South Florida health-industry leaders offer ideas on how to curb the region's excessive costs. |
| Center offers unusual spinal therapy Posted: 5/16/2009 © Orlando Sentinel Step It Up Recovery Center Inc. in Sanford, launched by the mother of a quadriplegic, uses a controversial exercise-based program to retrain the nervous system of patients with spinal-cord injuries. |
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