The Bush administration has begun the traditional post election changes of regulations and executive orders that often accompany a change in administrations. On Friday, the president narrowed the scope of services for poor people who rely on Medicaid's outpatient benefits. The administration claimed the purpose of the order was to clarified the definition of outpatient [...]
A federal court blocked a recent move of the Bush administration to allow Medicare to only pay for the least expensive treatment available without regard to the medical issues. The administration saw instituting this limitation as a way to cut costs to the financially strapped Medicare Program. The court decided that congress sets the Medicare [...]
I recently met a prostate cancer survivor whose doctor prescribed a new “miracle drug” to treat his loss of bone density caused by hormone therapy. He was given a prescription for FORTEO® and told that this drug has proven itself a better alternative to bisphosphonates, the normal treatment for bone density loss. Forteo® is a [...]
Go to a support group and one of the most common complaints you will here is about the number of times we need to wake up from our sleep and urinate. As we age, we all find that we are constantly beating our way to the bathroom and when you have had primary prostate cancer [...]
Normally, I don't duplicate my postings from internet listservs, but today I am going to make an exception. There was a posting today on The list called "Prostate Problems." The thread involved my post about the recent decision from the Social Security Administration to place a number of diseases on an accelerated approval list for [...]