Aug 11 Costs Rising for Those in Private Medicare Plans As Congress considers expanding the roll that private plans play in Medicare, a report released Monday by The Commonwealth Fund cautioned that those enrolled in private Medicare+Choice plans have seen their costs double over the past four years. Continue reading
Aug 07 West Nile Cases Triple in Past Week, CDC Reports The number of West Nile virus cases in 2003 has tripled since last week and may eventually surpass the total for last year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. Continue reading
Aug 07 Pfizer Cracks Down on Drug Reimportation Less than two weeks after the House passed a bill that would let U.S. consumers buy medicine at lower prices from Canada, Pfizer moved to prevent reimportation of its drugs. Continue reading
Aug 06 Watch India's AIDS Epidemic While the HIV infection rate for residents of India's cities has stabilized, increasing numbers of people in rural areas are becoming infected with the virus that causes AIDS. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on efforts to stem the HIV/AIDS epidemic… Continue watching
Jul 28 CDC Reports Rise in HIV Infections in Gay, Bisexual Men The number of gay and bisexual men in the U.S who tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS jumped 7.1 percent in 2002, while the number of new HIV diagnoses remained stable for other vulnerable groups. Continue reading
Jul 24 PSA Tests Miss Over Half of All Prostate Cancers, Study Says The widely used screening test for prostate cancer did not detect most tumors, according to a study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Continue reading
Jul 16 One in Ten New HIV Patients in Europe Have Drug-Resisant Strain Drug resistant strains of HIV were found in almost ten percent of newly diagnosed patients in Europe, researchers said on Wednesday. Continue reading
Jul 16 Watch Straight Talk: Brazil and HIV In the mid-nineties, the World Bank estimated 1.2 million Brazilians would be infected with HIV by the year 2000. But the estimate is half that amount. Susan Dentzer looks at some of the innovative government-sponsored prevention programs that Brazilian officials… Continue watching
Jul 15 Watch Medicare Rx Members of Congress started work on compromise legislation to provide a Medicare prescription drug program. Ray Suarez discusses the differences between the House and Senate versions of the proposal with Robert Reischauer, president of the Urban Institute, and Robert Laszewski,… Continue watching
Jul 15 Watch Brazil's Survival Plan for HIV Brazil's HIV treatment and education programs have produced impressive results, and may serve as a model for other developing countries dealing with accelerating rates of HIV infection. Continue watching