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Kids
Face Insurance Gap
 About
5 million children have been added to government health programs
since 2001, many because their parents lost employer-sponsored
insurance, according to a study Tuesday.
To
learn more about this alarming statistic and steps being taken to
alleviate the burden on public programs read CBS
News' complete coverage.
Heart
Tumors May Be More Common
 Scientists
studying a rare genetic disorder have made a surprising discovery
that helps explain why certain heart tumors develop and suggests
they may be more common than had been believed.
Doctors
should look more broadly for signs of such tumors, which aren't
cancerous but are dangerous because they can break off and cause
strokes, researchers say.
Learn
more about specific signs in identifying patients with this genetic
disorder that can potentially be fatal on CNN's
online news site.
FDA
Approves 2 New Combination AIDS Drugs
 Two
new AIDS drugs, each of which combines two medications within a
single tablet, have been approved by federal regulators, the Food
and Drug Administration's acting commissioner said Monday.
The
drugs give AIDS sufferers in poor countries a better chance of
survival. It received a speedier review to ensure that safe and
effective drugs are made available under the government's $15
billion emergency plan for AIDS relief.
Read
the FDA's
press release and ABC
News' complete online coverage to learn more.
'Lemonade'
Cancer Crusader Dies
 A
young cancer patient who started a lemonade stand to raise money for
cancer research, sparking a nationwide fund-raising campaign that
has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars, has died at her home.
She was 8.
Alexandra
Scott, of Wynnewood, Pa., whose battle with pediatric cancer
captured hearts nationwide, "passed on peacefully with us
holding her hands," her parents, Jay and Liz Scott, said in an
e-mail on Monday.
Click
here to learn more about Amanda's life and her cause on the ABC
News website.
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Hospitals
Move Toward Paperless Age
With
no patient chart in sight, Dr. Sheila Gamache strides into Thom
Kolby’s hospital room to check on him a day after the 54-year-old
arrived ashen-faced and perilously close to death with a clogged
artery starving his heart of oxygen.
Rather
than flipping through a clipboard thick with pages of notations and
test results, Gamache gets up to speed on Kolby’s condition simply
by logging onto a wireless notepad she carries on her daily rounds at
the Indiana Heart Hospital.
Like
a handful of others nationwide, the Indianapolis hospital has traded
its once scattered medical charts, file folders, X-rays and other
documents for a unified electronic records system accessible with a
few keystrokes.
Read
MSNBC's
in-depth coverage on this topic to learn the advantages of going
paperless and why all hospitals should.
Big
Biz, Big Risks?  Infertility
treatment is a $4 billion-a-year business that uses controversial
drugs and experimental techniques, and yet is virtually unregulated.
Thousands of women each year turn to it in hopes of having a baby, but
many scientists, ethicists and policymakers now believe safety
concerns are not keeping pace with the rapid growth in the industry.
Read
ABC
News' information on the potential negative and even deadly
effects of the latest fertility drugs.
Drug
Benefit Company Accused of Fraud
 New
York authorities sued one of the nation's largest pharmacy benefit
managers on Wednesday accusing Express Scripts, Inc. of pocketing as
much as $100 million in drug rebates that should have gone to the
state.
"They
were simply committing fraud," said New York Attorney General
Eliot Spitzer. "It's an ugly word."
Spitzer and state Civil Service Commissioner Daniel Wall accused the
St. Louis-based firm of violating its $600,000 contract to negotiate
the lowest prices for drugs under health plans for state workers. The
contract required the company to negotiate the lowest prices and
return any rebates to the state.
Learn
more about this latest drug fraud and how you may have been effected
on the CBS
News website.
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