Medical
The ever increasing doughnut hole
The doughnut hole, or the payment that Medicare patients make when their medications cost more than $2700 a year is going to get bigger. The new bill in Congress is supposed to close the payments over the next 10 years so that all pharmacy payments will be covered by Medicare. However, because of increases in [...]
Older population means increasing disability population
After many warnings about the rapidly aging baby boomer generation were ignored, insurance companies are stating to deal with increasing disabled populations. Canada is especially seeing these changes because of their medical care system that covers everyone in the population regardless of their age or medical condition. Tests and procedures for the disabled are much [...]
Possible changes to Medicare – Senate side
After several months of infighting we now have a bill that the Senate has passed. However up to this point no one outside of congress really has had an idea of what will be changed or who will be effected by this legislation. The folks at Piconetwork have created a PDF document that gives everyone [...]
Human body may have extra skin sensors
Doctors have been working for years trying to understand the reasons behind migraines and fibromyalgia but have not found reasons behind the pain. Doctors from the University of Liverpool may have accidently found that the human body has nerves at the end of blood vessels and sweat glands that can report touch and pain back [...]
Survey to see how technology helps disabled
The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for Wireless Technologies (Wireless RERC) invites people with all types of abilities to take its ongoing Survey of User Needs for wireless technology. This is the cornerstone project of their consumer research program, the results from which are used to educate the wireless industry, government and consumers about the needs [...]
Massachusetts Governor cuts disability programs
With falling revenues hitting all states is was a matter of time before the programs that the disabled need were cut. Massachusetts lost revenue from families unable to pay for their property taxes or income taxes and has put the state in a tough situation. Many programs have been cut and state workers all over [...]
FDA approves embryonic cellular procedure
The FDA has approved the first human treatment using embryonic stem cells. The procedure only gave permission to test the cells in patients with thoracic spinal cord damage. This type of damage occurs below the neck and usually creates a situation where the person has use of their arms and hands, but nothing below the [...]
Changing drugs can increase their effectiveness
As we move up the ladder of drugs to ever more powerful pills we need to make sure we use them wisely. It is easy for pain doctors to keep writing prescriptions to the same pain killers that work for you over time. That may sound like a good idea, but over time drugs tend [...]
Enzyme found to help formation of new axons
Researchers at Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology have announced that they have found an enzyme that helps nerves to grow inn areas that have been damaged after trauma. In typical injuries scar tissue forms around the damage point and the body removes the tissue so that new muscle and nerves can grow in [...]
H1N1 kills paraplegic man in Greece
A paraplegic man that was suffering from liver problems died from complications brought on by the H1N1 virus. He was brought into the hospital with a high fever and was placed in intensive care. Unfortunately the virus quickly spread to his other organs which began to shut down. Doctors were not able to get control [...]
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