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- Where are Floridians in D.C. action?
- Docs on drinking: OK, but just a glass
- Bartering for health care on the rise
- Board cracks down on pain doctors
- Man shot in head comes out of coma
- Joint replacement? Consider this
- Hospital asks new moms to donate cord
- Cancer discoveries unveiled in FL
- CEO turns down bonus
- Reform could trim HMO extras
- Quadruple amputee gets new trial
- Doctor agrees not to see patients
- Reporting law ignored, group says
- Doctors' foes unveil poll
- 13 more women accuse doctor
- 2-lb. tumor taken from baby's face
- Pro-doctors' bill draws legal question
- Mayo: Trio of drugs slows breast cancer
- Mental: Fox's new show 'revolting'
- 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
- Veto fight heats up on doctors' pay
- When these docs talk, others listen
- Center offers unusual spinal therapy
| Where are Floridians in D.C. action? Posted:
A Senate committee began the long slog on health reform Wednesday, but no Floridians are on that panel. Where are they? On TV. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite touted the GOP plan, which was announced without details, on Youtube. Meanwhile, CNN interviewed Democrat Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, who has had seven surgeries for cancer, about her insurance coverage. | ||
| Docs on drinking: OK, but just a glass Posted: 6/18/2009 © St. Petersburg Times Is moderate alcohol intake healthy? Nagi Kumar, director of nutrition research at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, tells patients to enjoy a glass of wine a day, the redder the better. | ||
| Bartering for health care on the rise Posted: 6/17/2009 © Kaiser Health News Bartering for health services has provided a temporary safety net for the uninsured and underinsured. David Mroz, an independent broker based in Broward County and listed on a directory at Itex Corp., said he has many Florida doctors, dentists and chiropractors on the list. Those who barter for services worth at least $600 a year have to pay tax. | ||
| Board cracks down on pain doctors Posted: 6/5/2009 © South Florida Sun-Sentinel The Florida Board of Medicine leveled stricter-than-usual penalties today against doctors found to have doled out narcotic painkillers excessively or improperly. A bill that would give the board more authority over rogue pain clinics awaits action from the governor. | ||
| Man shot in head comes out of coma Posted: 6/4/2009 © Northwest Florida Daily News Rion Tilton, 22, who has been unconscious for more than a week after being shot in the head, surprised his doctors by coming out of his coma. | ||
| Joint replacement? Consider this Posted: 6/4/2009 Health News Florida Patients at some Florida hospitals were much more likely to have an unexpected return following knee- or hip-replacement surgery last year than those who had the procedure at other hospitals, new state data show. These potentially preventable readmissions cost Floridians a bundle. Special report: Florida hospitals' "revolving door syndrome, " Part 2. | ||
| Hospital asks new moms to donate cord Posted: 6/02/2009 © Miami Herald Women who give birth at South Miami Hospital are offered the option of saving the umbilical cord so its stem cells can be used to treat cancer patients. The hospital is part of an expanding network of such centers. | ||
| Cancer discoveries unveiled in FL Posted: 5/31/2009 Healthfinder.gov The benefits of Tamoxifen, which 500,000 U.S. women take to prevent recurrence of breast cancer, are virtually wiped out if patients also take common anti-depressants, cancer specialists meeting in Orlando learned on Saturday. But on Sunday, they heard good news about cancer vaccines. | ||
| Posted: Joseph Boshart, CEO of Boca Raton health-staffing firm Cross Country Healthcare, turned down a bonus of nearly $200,000, saying it wouldn't be appropriate at a time of layoffs and losses. | ||
| Posted: 5/31/2009 © Sun-Sentinel Medicare beneficiaries in South Florida are accused to HMOs offering them freebies like dental and eyeglasses because of the sky-high federal payments the plans receive, double the national average. But that extra cash may soon disappear, and the free dental may go with it. Also, here's a summary of what's happening in health reform in Washington. | ||
| Quadruple amputee gets new trial Posted: 5/29/2009 © AP/Sun-Sentinel In a rare ruling, Broward Circuit Judge Charles M. Greene has ordered a new malpractice trial for Lisa Strong, who lost all four limbs to an infection. He threw out the jury's verdict for the defendant doctors, saying it was "contrary to the law and the manifest weight of the evidence." | ||
| Doctor agrees not to see patients Posted: 5/29/2009 © Bradenton Herald Internist C.G. Rao, arrested on charges of sexually molesting five patients and accused of other incidents that now are beyond the statute of limitations, has agreed not to see patients while his legal cases are pending. Bail was set at $20,000. | ||
| Reporting law ignored, group says Posted: 5/28/2009 © Health News Florida Nearly half of the state's hospitals have never reported a single incident of physician discipline to a databank set up to protect patients from questionable doctors, a consumer group reported Wednesday. Earlier this year, the same group cited Florida's Board of Medicine as particularly weak. | ||
| Posted: By Christine Jordan Sexton 5/28/2009 Health News Florida Opponents of a bill backed by Florida’s doctors released a poll today that contends Floridians are on their side of the fight. But the Florida Medical Association dismissed the results, saying the poll questions were "skewed to get the answers they wanted." | ||
| Posted: Bradenton police rearrested internist Gangadhararao Chapalamadugu, known to his patients as C.G. Rao, on Wednesday on charges of sexually molesting four women patients. Detectives say more than 13 patients called after news of Rao's arrest last week, but some alleged events were older than the three-year limit for prosecution. | ||
| 2-lb. tumor taken from baby's face Posted: 5/28/2009 © Sun-Sentinel Two-month-old Jordan Smith was born with a two-pound tumor protruding from his mouth, blocking his airway. But doctors at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center rescued him and later removed the tumor. | ||
| Pro-doctors' bill draws legal question Posted:
5/27/2009 © Health News Florida The heat keeps rising over a bill pushed by doctors that would force insurers to change the way they pay. An attorney says it may be unconstitutional, and state Insurance Consumer Advocate Sean Shaw urges the governor to veto. But the docs plan TV ads. | ||
| Mayo: Trio of drugs slows breast cancer Posted: 5/23/2009 © Florida Times-Union Mayo Clinic researchers have found promising evidence that the combination of three drugs already on the market can shrink tumors substantially in patients with an aggressive form of breast cancer. In Pompe disease, Gainesville Sun reports, UF researchers make a discovery. | ||
| Mental: Fox's new show 'revolting' Posted: Chris Vance stars in Mental, tonight's new drama on Fox about doctors at a psychiatric hospital. A Herald critic calls it "revolting," and suggests instead the documentary New World Order, which gives conspiracy theorists the opportunity to talk about their beliefs. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Veto fight heats up on doctors' pay Posted: and Carol Gentry 5/14/2009 © Health News Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's mailbag is full of letters and e-mails about an insurance bill that hasn't even arrived at his office yet. Consumer groups seek a veto, while doctors' groups implore Crist to sign it. The finger-pointing has become downright personal for at least one consumer advocate. | ||
| When these docs talk, others listen Posted: 5/14/2009 © USA Today Qforma, a New Mexico firm that combs databases to identify opinion leaders in the medical field, includes 364 Florida doctors on the list. Find out who's on it. | ||
| 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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