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Last year, we wrote about a really troubling incident in the UK, where the British Chiropractic Association had sued Dr. Simon Singh for noting that there was little scientific evidence to back up some of the marketing claims used by the BCA concerning what chiropractors could treat. Rather than responding with evidence, the BCA responded with a lawsuit. As we noted at the time, the backlash against the BCA was pretty impressive, with it calling a lot more attention to the questionable medical claims, as well as tremendous anger towards the BCA and chiropractors for the actions against Singh. It was a classic Streisand Effect in action. What was also interesting was how a group of bloggers then teamed up to do the investigative work that no full-time journalist was doing (and who says bloggers can’t do investigative journalism?) to debunk the BCA’s claims. Read more

Ephram Nehme wanted to visit a doctor. Turns out he also needed to hire a lawyer.

His trial begins today in a Los Angeles courtroom, where Nehme is alleging that the nation’s largest health insurer, WellPoint Inc., and its California subsidiary, Anthem Blue Cross, automatically denied coverage for a liver transplant that his doctor said was medically necessary. Read more

The Government’s drugs rationing body, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), has provisionally said that it does not intend to recommend the use of the drug, called Tocilizumab, or Roactemra. Nice claims that the £9,000 a year drug, for rheumatoid arthritis, has not proved. Patients groups last night said that denying the medication to tens of thousands of patients with the crippling condition in one part of the country was “cruel”. Read more

Less than two months since the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force issued new guidelines recommending against routine mammograms for women in their forties, a second breast cancer scandal involving a U.S. government panel of experts has come to light which has implications for healthcare reform. Read more

In a time when the government says they want to make healthcare cheaper it seems someone forget to tell the FDA. The government agency is on a mission to get all non approved FDA drugs off the market. Many of these drugs have been around a long time, are cheap and are helping patients that need them. But the FDA is encouraging Big Pharma to apply for FDA approval of a “branded” version of drugs that are already on the market. Once this approval is given the new FDA approved version cost more and the old version is now illegal to sell and the pharmaceutical companies sue to keep it of the market. A case in point is Philadelphia-based URL Pharma, one of many drug makers that used to sell a non approved drug called colchicine. But recently URL Pharma won FDA approval for a branded version of the drug called Colcrys, which sells for about $4.50 a tablet – nearly 50 times the price of the unapproved version and the company is now suing other drug makers to remove the very same unbranded version that they used to sell! Read more

A teenage girl with a brain injury so severe that doctors asked her parents if they would consider switching off her life support machine has made a surprise recovery. After an horrific accident when a car ploughed in to her out walking Paige Holmes was left in a coma with a diffuse axonal brain injury. Up to 90 percent of patients with the same injury as Paige never recover, but the 13-year-old is now well enough to return home for the New Year. Her mother Shirley, 36, said her decision to keep the life support machine on was the best choice she ever made and that she can’t wait to have Paige home for 2010. Read more

HFA recently ran an article on a study stating that one third of all Americans are caregivers. During this holiday season we would like to say thank you and remind our members that many family caregivers experience holiday blues due to legitimate emotional and spiritual needs. If caregivers understand these needs, holiday blues can be managed. Read more

The availability of donors for transplants has always been a concern for those in need of them. Now a new law in Israel hopes to increase the supply of donor organs by giving people who are prepared to sign donor cards themselves priority when they are in need of an organ transplant. In addition, increased priority is given to first degree relatives of those who have signed donor cards, to first degree relatives of those who have died and given organs, and to live donors of a kidney, liver lobe or lung lobe who have donated for as yet undesignated recipients. Read more

The dangers of doctors over-prescribing antibiotics are well known. Besides being dangerous to take they cause viruses to mutate and become more dangerous and drug resistant . So why do doctors prescribe them so often.? A new study shows one reason is fear of lawsuits. The researchers confirmed
that physicians were more concerned about medical liability in cases of under-prescribing antibiotics rather than by over-prescribing them. Read more

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