"Health & Medical News"

A California appeals court dealt another blow to health plans over their policy cancellation tactics.

The 4th District Court of Appeal unanimously said insurers have a responsibility to make sure patients’ policy applications are complete and accurate before issuing coverage — not after expensive claims come in the door. Judges said plans cannot revoke patients’ policies unless they fully investigate pre-enrollment forms up front or insurers show patients intentionally misled them.

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A Food and Drug Administration Public Health Advisory was issued Jan. 17 warning that over-the-counter cough and cold products should not be used to treat infants and very young children because very serious side effects can occur, including death, convulsions, rapid heart rates and decreased levels of consciousness.

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Massachusetts physicians say a recent high court ruling expands physician liability well beyond the bounds of the doctor-patient relationship.

The state’s Supreme Judicial Court said doctors are liable not just to patients but also anyone else “foreseeably” put at risk when doctors fail to warn patients about potential side effects of drugs they prescribe.

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A California appeals court ruling may bode well for physicians and patients in their fight against alleged illegal policy cancellations by health insurance companies.

A three-judge panel of the 2nd District Court of Appeal unanimously ruled that the practice of reviewing individuals’ applications after they have submitted claims and then pulling the coverage based on alleged errors “is flatly prohibited” under state insurance laws. The Dec. 4, 2007, decision gave the green light to a patient’s class-action lawsuit alleging that Blue Shield of California tried to dodge claims by looking for supposed misstatements or omissions on patients’ policy forms after approving treatment.

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With the success of previous campaigns: Fundraising Challenge Event and Organ Donation Awareness Campaign, BlogCatalog is back with it’s latest campaign for a good cause - Stop The Abuse.

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Just under 150 Perth women have contributed to major international research at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research that has proved that the new Cervarix vaccine provides broader protection against cervical cancer.

The results, published today in the prestigious international journal Lancet, show that while the vaccine provides effective protection against high grade cervical pre-cancerous lesions caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18, it also demonstrated additional protection against infections from other strains of HPV that account for another 10 percent of cervical cancers.

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