“Press Pass,” the blog for NBC news show “Meet the Press,” features an interview with Melanie Bloom – widow of late NBC news correspondent David Bloom, and founder of the Coalition to Prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis.
Melanie describes David’s death nine years ago from deep vein thrombosis, which is a blood clot in one of the larger veins. He suffered a pulmonary embolism when a blood clot from a vein in his leg migrated to his lungs.
David was embedded with troops ...
continue reading...A federal court complaint alleges sex discrimination at the U.S. subsidiary of German pharmaceutical company Bayer, according to Bloomberg.
On April 2, Bloomberg reports, a judge denied Bayer’s request to bar the case from being considered for a class-action lawsuit.
The lawsuit was filed under the U.S. Equal Pay Act, and mentions disparities in pay and promotion opportunities compared with men in similar positions. It claims that “disregard and indifference for concerns or complaints about discrimination and sexual harassment pervades every corner ...
continue reading...A recent study found that about 35 percent of physicians do not completely agree that they should tell patients about their financial relationships with drug and medical device companies, according to Medscape Today News.
The study, published in the February issue of Health Affairs, drew on a 2009 survey of almost 1900 physicians.
The article quotes medical ethicist Linda Emanuel, MD, PhD, of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, as saying: “We need to do some serious interventions to return to our ethical ...
continue reading...When you’re traveling to get medical care, you certainly don’t want a blood clot to complicate the original medical problem.
New York City’s Hospital for Special Surgery attracts many patients who travel long distances for its specialty orthopedic operations. The hospital’s Website says that long airplane flights, with their extended periods of forced immobility, can be a risk factor in developing blood clots. The dryness of the recirculated air can also be a problem in that regard.
Dr. Anne Bass, chairperson of ...
continue reading...Following close on the heels of the December 8, 2011 U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel vote on Yaz/Yasmin/Beyaz, the FDA is planning a new panel to examine the question of whether all-metal hip implants, plagued by a high failure rate and other health concerns, should remain on the market.
The FDA panel on birth control has already voted that Beyaz, Yaz, and other contraceptives containing the compound drospirenone should remain on the market. But in the opinion of many ...
continue reading...Missouri television station KSDK cites a new study by the American Journal of Public Health, which says that more Latinas are crossing the border into Mexico for birth control pills. The study also found that undocumented immigrants are buying birth control on the black market.
Birth control is cheaper and more readily accessible in Mexico, where it’s sold over the counter.
The report quotes Dr. Jorge Galdamez of the San Ysidro Health Center as saying those women are taking a huge health ...
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