Medicare has ordered private insurers to stop sending letters to their Medicare Advantage customers, telling them that proposed health reform legislation could hurt them and jeopardize their benefits. Now those… Read more »
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Sept 24 09 Medicare orders private insurers to stop sending confusing letters to Medicare Advantage customers
Sept 25 09 CDC Health Update: Updated Pediatric Antiviral Dosing Syringe and Compounding Information for 2009 H1N1 and Seasonal Flu – Sept. 25, 2009
This is an official CDC Health Update Distributed via Health Alert Network September 25, 2009, 13:51 EST (1:51 PM EST) CDCHAN-00298-09-09-25-UPD-N UpdatedPediatricAntiviral Dosing Syringe and Compounding Information for 2009 H1N1… Read more »
Nurses Needed for Flu Clinics
This is an unprecedented year for influenza so the call for nurses like you to help stem the potential pandemic is coming from many quarters. Care Dynamix, which also operates… Read more »
Democrats seek cuts in Medicare Advantage
Citing perks, GOP says Obama misled By Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff | September 24, 2009 More than 10 million seniors enrolled in an enhanced, private version of Medicare known as… Read more »
Sept 24 09: Studies raise seaonal flu shot fear: seasonal flu shots may increase susceptibility to H1N1
Helen Branswell THE CANADIAN PRESS Unpublished Canadian data are raising concerns about whether it’s a good idea to get a seasonal flu shot this season. Drawn from a series of… Read more »
Sept 24 2009: CDC’s Focus Group Report on Immunization of Health Care Workers (draft report)
During this week’s Government-Labor coordination call on H1N1, CDC summarized their evaluation of focus group responses of health care workers to immunization against H1N1. Attached is a copy of the… Read more »
Sept 23 09 Washington Post “For French, U.S. Health Debate Hard To Imagine: But National Insurance Faces New Challenges”
For French, U.S. Health Debate Hard To Imagine But National Insurance Faces New Challenges By Edward Cody Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, September 23, 2009 MARSEILLE, France — When Jean-Louis… Read more »
Sept 16 2002 Bloomberg “Surgical Masks Don’t Stop Flu From Spreading”
U.S. to Review Masks as Study Shows Flu Gets Through (Update2) By Tom Randall and Jason Gale Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. government said it’s reviewing recommendations on the… Read more »
Sept 23 09 H1N1 DPH Perinatal Advisory Committee Update on Antiviral Guidance for Obstetric Health Care Providers
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Timing for Mailing Supplemental Secret Mail Ballot
Q. 45. When will the Supplemental Secret Mail Ballot on Dues be mailed?