Panel Told That Anemia-Drug Payment Method Is Flawed
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Specialists told Congress that the way Medicare pays for the drug, used to treat dialysis patients, encourages overuse and raises the risk of heart complications.
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Debate about the safety of a group of anemia drugs widely used in cancer patients should focus on a minority of patients who got the drugs for unapproved uses, doctors said on Sunday.
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There was a puzzling line in a report in which the Bush Administration asserted it could not vouch for the safety of foreign, lower-cost prescription drugs.
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A study aimed at determining if some children with sickle cell anemia could be weaned off blood transfusion therapy has been halted because two young patients who stopped getting the procedure suffered strokes and others developed a high chance of strokes.
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The government said Friday it was fining the American Red Cross $4.2 million for violating blood-safety laws. The violations include failing to ask appropriate questions of potential donors and not following test procedures, said the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA said it had no evidence of serious health consequences resulting from the violations.
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Some Medicare beneficiaries had received erroneous refunds of premiums paid for prescription drug coverage.
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In an Aug. 26. story about the recall of a medical device used to measure carbon dioxide in patient&#39;s blood, the Associated Press included incorrect information provided by the federal Food and Drug Administration.
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Stark evidence that high medical payments do not buy high-quality patient care is presented in a new study.
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Fraud in the $300 billion-a-year Medicaid program is widespread and the federal government is not doing enough to combat it, congressional investigators said in a report released on Wednesday.
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Quality not quantity should be the federal governmentÂs guide in setting payments to health care providers, said a report.
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Be aware of the Medicare drug plan's gaps.
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Patients going under the knife face a significant risk of becoming the victim of a medical error involving medication, according to a report being released today.
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A leading U.S. scientific journal  that published phony stem cell findings lacks adequate  procedures to detect fraudulent work and must do a better job  scrutinizing "high-risk" research, a panel appointed by the  publication found on Tuesday.
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Cancer doctors seek to loosen federal restrictions on anemia drugs that carry potentially deadly side effects, saying the tight payment guidelines for treatments made by Amgen and Johnson and Johnson are ultimately bad for patients.
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Some states are paying far higher prices than others for prescription drugs under the Medicaid program, but data that would help them get a better deal are kept confidential by the federal government, a new report says.
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Importing cheaper prescription medicines would require costly safety measures and save US consumers little money, a government task force said on Tuesday in a report
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Medicaid is &quot;excessively overpaying pharmacists&quot; for prescription drugs, according to a government study presented Tuesday at a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee&#39;s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, CongressDaily reports (Heil