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Search results for "terminal disease" ...
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Delaware's Deadly Prisons
This four day series examined the health care for more than 6,000 inmates at Delaware's prisons. Documents and interviews showed that inmates did not receive routine or emergency care from state-contracted medical providers for ailments from cancer to AIDS. In several cases inmates died. The state did not oversee the contractors, and employees of the contractors said they were told that cost is more important than care.
Tags: prison; terminal disease; inmate care; AIDS; cancer; Department of Justice; Department of Corrections; FOIA; Department of Health and Human Services; private contractors; privatization; jail; incarceration
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The Outlaw Doctor
New Yorker magazine profiles Nicholas Gonzalez, a doctor who prescribes nutritional diets rather than chemotherapy, to fight cancer. Gonzalez did not begin his practice until he had investigated the research of William Donald Kelly, who started the nontoxic approach in the 1960's. While Gonzalez was skeptical of Kelly's therapy in the beginning, he began to see some truth in Kelly's findings and opened up his own office in 1987. 'I had no choice other than to face the fact that he had hundreds of patients with obviously terminal disease who were still alive five, ten and fifteen years later.' Now fifteen years later, critics remain questionable about Gonzalez's philosophy, stating he "lies to cancer patients, steals their money, and kills them." But as he puts out more information and encourages doctors to research his work, some doctors are agreeing that Gonzalez may be on the right tract.
Tags: doctors; cancer; patients; funding; research; American Cancer Society; Food and Drug Administration; National Institute of Health; National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine; American Medical Association; Food-Drug and Cosmetic Act; Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act
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Loopholes in the Safety Net
Smart Money investigates loopholes in medical insurance policies called "experimental exclusion" clauses. The clauses excuse insurers from paying for any type of experimental or investigatory treatments - even in the case of life-threatening diseases. If a drug is not being used for its FDA approved purpose, insurance companies may not pay for it, regardless of whether it may be a patient's only hope in a terminal illness. (July 1996)
Tags: Protos Loopholes in the Safety Net Health care Medicine HMOs 6 pgs.