Daily reminder that The Most Moral Army of the so-called #Jewish (#Ashkenazi#whitesupremacist#settlercolonial) State tied up #patients (men, women, and children) and medical staff at #Nasser Hospital in #Gaza and executed them in cold blood before dumping their bodies in a mass grave.
Philips Agrees to Pay $1 Billion to #Patients Who Say They Were Injured by Breathing Machines
The proposed settlement will effectively end more than 700 #lawsuits filed after the 2021 recall of millions of the company’s widely used sleep apnea devices and ventilators.
A #Houston#hospital is investigating whether a #doctor altered a #transplant list to make his patients ineligible for care. A disproportionate number of them have died while waiting for new #organs.
…Ofcls began investigating after…a complaint. An analysis found what the #hospital called “irregularities” in how #patients were classified on a #WaitingList for liver #transplants. When #doctors place a patient on the list, they identify types of #donors they would consider, incl’g age & weight.
Hospital ofcls said they found patients had been listed as accepting only donors w/ages & weights that were impossible—for instance, a 300-lb toddler—making them unable to receive any transplant.
After Decades of Imprisoning #Patients, #Idaho Approves Secure Mental Health Facility
The Idaho Legislature has approved funding for a 26-bed facility after ProPublica found that state lawmakers and officials ignored repeated warnings about the practice of locking up mentally ill patients who hadn’t been convicted of a #crime.
After CPAP #Recall, Philips Must Institute New Safeguards in Agreement With #DOJ
The settlement comes nearly 3 years after the company acknowledged that an industrial foam fitted inside its machines could degrade and release toxic substances into #patients' masks.
Keeping #dolphins, #orcas and other cetaceans in #captivity is cruel. Depriving them of the vast open spaces and social bonds that they would normally have in the wild, and confining them to small, concrete #tanks to perform tricks for dead fish is highly unethical for these complex marine mammals. No matter how sophisticated the enclosure, no man made facility can ever hope to replicate the wild world of dolphins and whales.
Dolphin-Assisted Therapy is bad for dolphins and bad for #patients. It is a #scam that brings in huge amounts of money; it is bad for dolphins that are confined to #captivity separated from their #freedom and their loved ones, and it is bad for patients and their families who are getting soaked in more ways than one.
Please join us in asking #Congress to please end all Dolphin-Assisted Therapy programs.
#Michigan Lawmaker to Introduce Bill Requiring State #Health Plans to Cover Cutting-Edge #Cancer Treatments
After ProPublica reported on a Michigan insurer that wouldn’t cover a cancer patient’s last-chance treatment, a state lawmaker said he would introduce a measure compelling health plans to cover a new generation of advanced cancer therapies.
The AL #legislature voted Thurs to #protect#doctors doing IVF from #criminal or #civil#liability if #embryos they help to create are subsequently damaged or destroyed.
The fast action by both the House & Senate on bills to shield IVF came >2 wks after the state’s Supreme Court ruled that #FrozenEmbryos are people & that individuals could be liable for destroying them.
Singleton accused his colleague of relying too heavily on clinics &trial #lawyers in writing the measure,granting #doctors#immunity but not female #patients.
“We’re getting into a deep subj as far as when life begins & #abortion,” said Melson,a #Republican. “I’m not trying to take anybody’s rights away. I’m just trying to help these ladies. I’m sympathetic to their cause…”
Sen LarryStutts (R), an #OBGYN &the bill’s sponsor,…said discarded #embryos are “a small, small percentage”…. #law#Alabama
We're Investigating Mental Health Care Access. Share Your Insights.
ProPublica’s reporters want to talk to #MentalHealth providers, health #insurance insiders and #patients as we examine the U.S. mental health care system.
WHO said an estimated 130 sick and injured patients and at least 15 #doctors and #nurses remain in the #hospital.
The intensive care unit was no longer functioning and WHO staff transferred the only remaining ICU patient to a different part of the complex where others are receiving basic care.
Looking forward to a deep-dive discussion at #PrivacyCamp24 comparing #healthdata regimes in the #EU and #UK and how (and if at all) they protect #patients' rights.
Health Plans Can’t Dodge Paying for Expensive New #Cancer Treatments, Says Michigan’s Top #Insurance Regulator
After ProPublica reported on a #health insurer that refused to cover the only medicine that could save a cancer patient’s life, #Michigan insurance regulators clarified that, by law, many plans must pay for any clinically proven treatments.
And so now the #NHScrisis in all it dimensions lies behind another health scare: this time the surge in #scabies across the country.
Lets be clear; you cannot defund the #NHS, attack & demean in staff while engineering the environment for failure (to push #patients into the arms of private #healthcare) and not thinks you will see a series of crises in public health.
Where the #Tories always go wrong is thinking they can buy their & their chums way out of danger!
Doctors With Histories of Big #Malpractice Settlements Have Found a New Home in the #Insurance Industry
#Doctors working for health insurers can rule on 10,000 or more requests for care a year. At least a dozen were hired by major insurance companies after being disciplined by state medical boards or making multiple or outsized malpractice payments.