Eden Township HC District Delays Sale of San Leandro Surgery Center

After a conflict of interest involving three board members surfaced last week, the Eden Township Healthcare District again delayed the sale of the San Leandro Surgery Center to Sutter Health’s Eden ...

SF Company Sees Alzheimer's Drug Fail Phase III Trial

A controversial late phase trial on an experimental treatment for Alzheimer’s disease ended in unexpected failure, leaving San Francisco’s Medivation, looking for answers and physicians, patients,...

Bunning Drops Objections; Temporary Freeze on SGR Cuts Passes

After considerable political pressure was applied from both parties, Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning dropped his objections to a bill (HR 4691) that will temporarily delay the 21% Medicare payment cuts t...

Senator Bunning to Physicians: Deficit More Important than Medicare

As the month of March began, Congress missed another opportunity to enact change and the scheduled 21% cuts in the Medicare Sustained Growth Rate (SGR) took effect. A Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...

Ventura County Republican Seeks to Force Healthcare Reform To the Ballot

State Senator Tony Strickland (R-Moorpark) announced last week that he would introduce a state constitutional amendment (SCA 29) that would keep many of the proposed requirements of any health care re...

US Senate Report Slams Avandia Safety

A US Senate report this week linked the type II diabetes treatment Avandia with thousands of heart attacks, as the US Food and Drug Administration scrambled to set up hearings on the drug’s safety. ...

Gilead Earns FDA Nod for CF Drug

Foster City’s Gilead Sciences announced this week that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted marketing approval for the company’s Cayston (aztreonam for inhalation solution) trea...

Senate Bill Proposes Tax on Sugary Drinks; Seeks to Reduce Obesity, Diabetes

When you see patients, you talk with them about type II diabetes, about obesity, and about their diet and which foods and beverages they consume. But one way to perhaps reduce the amount of calories t...

CMA Sues State to Restore Physician Supervision of CRNAs

Concluding that physician supervision of certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) is not in the interests of the people of California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger opted out of a Medicare pro...

Poizner Accuses Anthem of 700 Violations

State Insurance Commissioner, and Republican candidate for Governor, Steve Poizner filed an official accusation on Monday accusing insurance giant Anthem Blue Cross of more than 700 violations of stat...

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CHW Distributes More than $260,000 in Grants

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