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Small Business: The Hunt For Affordable Health Insurance
"For entrepreneurs trying to start or run a business, the obstacles are huge. But few loom as large as one: health care," the Wall Street Journal reports. "At some businesses, in fact, health care is the highest expense after salaries - with devastating consequences. Owners must skimp on vital investments like marketing and research. Some can"t hire the people they want because top candidates demand premium coverage. Or they end up understaffed because of the high cost of insurance - and lose potential clients as a result. At the same time, to keep costs in check, countless companies are slashing coverage or dropping it entirely. Some are turning to freelancers or offshore workers instead of hiring full-timers and locals. And some would-be entrepreneurs find insurance so onerous that they"re not even starting a business in the first place."
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Data Suggests Proton Pump Inhibitors Can Induce Acid-Related Symptoms In Healthy Adults
Treatment with proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) for eight weeks induces acid-related symptoms like heartburn, acid regurgitation and dyspepsia once treatment is withdrawn in healthy individuals, according to a new study in Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute.
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MIT And CDC Discover Why H1N1 Flu Spreads Inefficiently - Virus Ill-suited For Rapid Transmission, But Researchers Say New Strain Could Mutate
A team from MIT and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found a genetic explanation for why the new H1N1 "swine flu" virus has spread from person to person less effectively than other flu viruses.
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Doctor Testifies About Botched Prostate Treatment At VA Hospital

Dr. Gary D. Kao testified Monday about botched prostate cancer treatment he gave to patients at a Veterans Affairs hospital run by the University of Pennsylvania. The New York Times reports: "The radiation oncologist whom regulators accuse of mishandling scores of radioactive seed implants at the Philadelphia veterans" hospital told a Congressional panel on Monday that while he "could have done better" with some implants, his patients over all received effective treatment for their prostrate cancer." The New York Times reports that Kao "said he was voluntarily appearing before the committee, led by Senator Arlen Spector Democrat of Pennsylvania, to "correct some very serious false allegations in recent publications about me, most notably The New York Times." The Times reported last week that investigators for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and V.A. officials had identified Dr. Kao as the doctor who did all but a handful of what they said were 92 substandard seed implants out of 116 cases over more than six years. In some cases, most of the tiny metal seeds ended up in other organs. An N.R.C. consultant reviewed about a quarter of the flawed implants and concluded that "erratic seed placement caused a number of cases to have elevated doses to the rectum, bladder or perineum." The Times"s examination of the prostate cancer unit at the hospital also found that the errors resulted from a systemwide regulatory failure, in which none of the safeguards intended to protect veterans from poor medical care had worked" (Bogdanich, 6/29). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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