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Tatouages au henné noir : nouvelle mise en garde sur les allergies - CommentCaMarche.net
Mardi 12 Août 2008 - 04:05 - 4 mois, 4 semaines depuis - Presse généraliste - Google santé france
Pendant les vacances d'été, nombreux sont ceux qui se font faire un tatouage au henné. Aux abords des plages et des marchés du monde entier, ce genre de tatouages est fréquemment proposé aux touristes. Or, alors qu'une fillette de six ans a eu une ...

DE MAUBEUGE ET DU QUESNOY - La Voix du Nord
Mardi 12 Août 2008 - 01:11 - 4 mois, 4 semaines depuis - Presse généraliste - Google santé france
Consultations médicales libérales de garde : Tél : 0 810 11 45 39, de 20 heures à minuit, au centre hospitalier de Maubeuge, entrée des urgences. Pharmacie : - Maubeuge, Louvroil, Rousies, Ferrière, Mairieux : se présenter au commissariat de Maubeuge, ...

Cancer Drug Costs May Help Doctors Select a Treatment
Lundi 11 Août 2008 - 22:00 - 4 mois, 4 semaines depuis - Presse spécialisée - Scientific American
Oncologists will soon be adding “financial counselor” to their job description. With an increasing number of cancer patients suffering economic hardships as a side effect of expensive therapy, most oncologists are finding that cost needs to be considered as part of treatment options. Leading cancer organizations are now working on incorporating cost into treatment guidelines and other materials. The change, which departs from the current American medical ethos, is fraught with thorny questions not only for cancer doctors and patients but also for the health care system at large.The U.S. spends about $200 billion annually on cancer care; many new drugs cost several thousand dollars monthly. For patients, co-payments represent the most severe sappers of bank accounts. Increasingly, insurers are holding patients accountable for up to 20 percent of the prescription price. Covered drugs being used off-label (for an indication not formally approved but still medically appropriate) can carry co-pays of up to 30 percent. [More]

Unlikely Victims of Banning CFCs--Asthma Sufferers
Lundi 11 Août 2008 - 22:00 - 4 mois, 4 semaines depuis - Presse spécialisée - Scientific American
A federal ban on ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), to conform with the Clean Air Act, is, ironically, affecting 22.9 million people in the U.S. who suffer from asthma. Generic inhaled albuterol, which is the most commonly prescribed short-acting asthma medication and requires CFCs to propel it into the lungs, will no longer be legally sold after December 31, 2008. Physicians and patients are questioning the wisdom of the ban, which will have an insignificant effect on ozone but a measurable impact on wallets: the reformulated brand-name alternatives can be three times as expensive, raising the cost to about $40 per inhaler. The issue is even more disconcerting considering that asthma disproportionately affects the poor and that, according to recent surveys, an estimated 20 percent of asthma patients are uninsured.“The decision to make the change was political, not medical or scientific,” says pharmacist Leslie Hendeles of the University of Florida, who co-authored a 2007 paper in the New England Journal of Medicine explaining the withdrawal and transition. In 1987 Congress signed on to the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, an international treaty requiring the phasing out of all nonessential uses of CFCs. At that time, medical inhalers were considered an essential use because no viable alternative propellant existed. In 1989 pharmaceutical companies banded together and eventually, in 1996, reformulated albuterol with hydrofluoroalkane (HFA), an ozone-safe propellant. After more than one brand of HFA-albuterol became available, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration declared in 2005 that CFC inhalers were no longer essential and must be completely off the shelves by the last day of this year. [More]

Cancer Drug Costs May Help Doctors Select a Treatment
Lundi 11 Août 2008 - 22:00 - 4 mois, 4 semaines depuis - Cancer - Scientific American
Oncologists will soon be adding “financial counselor” to their job description. With an increasing number of cancer patients suffering economic hardships as a side effect of expensive therapy, most oncologists are finding that cost needs to be considered as part of treatment options. Leading cancer organizations are now working on incorporating cost into treatment guidelines and other materials. The change, which departs from the current American medical ethos, is fraught with thorny questions not only for cancer doctors and patients but also for the health care system at large.The U.S. spends about $200 billion annually on cancer care; many new drugs cost several thousand dollars monthly. For patients, co-payments represent the most severe sappers of bank accounts. Increasingly, insurers are holding patients accountable for up to 20 percent of the prescription price. Covered drugs being used off-label (for an indication not formally approved but still medically appropriate) can carry co-pays of up to 30 percent. [More]

Faces of an Epidemic
Lundi 11 Août 2008 - 21:00 - 4 mois, 4 semaines depuis - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health)
According to the D.C. Department of Health, women accounted for a third of all newly reported HIV/AIDS cases between 2001 and 2006, with African American women being d...

Learning From Olympians
Lundi 11 Août 2008 - 21:00 - 4 mois, 4 semaines depuis - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health)
It was probably no surprise to the Limas household in Chicago that daughter Arlene grew up to be a fighter.

Filling In the Blanks, at Long Last
Lundi 11 Août 2008 - 21:00 - 4 mois, 4 semaines depuis - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health)
"It wasn't the lowest of times. I was somewhere below that," recalls Don Gold, 62, who was living in Little Rock and slouching toward Medicareland with an empty heart. His first marriage had ended after seven years; his second marriage, after 25. Both relationships turned out to be very painful. ...

Is It Really Smart to Teach Old Brains New Tricks?
Lundi 11 Août 2008 - 21:00 - 4 mois, 4 semaines depuis - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health)
Throw all the money you like at computer brainteasers. Just don't bet the popular games will protect your gray matter any better than a host of other activities, many of them free.

An Age-Appropriate Update Can Add to Independence
Lundi 11 Août 2008 - 21:00 - 4 mois, 4 semaines depuis - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health)
It's a common refrain: Most people don't want to leave their houses as they get older; they'd like to stay put. Two weeks ago, a retirement community in McLean unveiled a suite that has been adapted and equipped to make that goal more possible.

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