10/23/2008 News For: Kaiser Medical Insurance HiOpen Enrollment for health, life insurance benefits starts Friday Open Enrollment begins Friday, Oct. 24, and runs through Friday, Nov. 14. During this time, benefits-eligible employees can make changes to health and life insurance plans for the upcoming calendar year, and retirees can make changes to their medical and dental coverage. Doctors call for insurance coverage of routine prostate cancer testing VANCOUVER-- A survey that found more than 80 per cent of Victoria doctors use a blood sample to test asymptomatic men for prostate cancer has renewed the call that such tests be covered by medical insurance. Health care plans: Obama vs. McCain Republican presidential nominee John McCain and Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama have dramatically divergent visions of how to reshape the health insurance system. Jupiter Medical Center kicks off $6M project to help patients Jupiter Medical Center has launched a $6 million technology project to support the hospital's major multi-year growth initiative and clinical quality initiatives that improve patient safety and care. NTSB says video shows Ill. tower lights were on before medical helicopter hit wire and crashed AURORA, Ill. - Security video shows that a suburban Chicago radio tower's lights were on just before a fatal medical helicopter crash, and that answers an important question for authorities. Medical Center Officials Will Meet with Leaders to Defend Job Cuts Medical Center officials released a memo Wednesday announcing a Community Leadership Roundtable. Medical care demands no insurance contingencies Gene-based medicine holds the key to improving health care outcomes and reducing costs, but only if individuals feel confident to undergo tests, according to national health care experts Friday at the Personalized Health Care National Conference hosted by The Ohio State University Medical Center. Medical negligence cases grow so do ambulance chasing lawyers Growing awareness amongst public about their consumer rights in events of medical negligence and increasing tribe of 'ambulance chasing lawyers' have contributed to rise in court cases against hospitals, feel experts. More county residents lacking health insurance, report finds A growing number of county residents dont have health insurance, the latest community health assessment says. In the past five years, 14,500 people were added to the rolls of the uninsured. Artes Medical Announces Completion Of Enrollment In 1,000 Patient Post-Marketing ArteFill Study (Dermal Filler) Artes Medical, Inc. Nasdaq:ARTE, a medical aesthetics company, today announced that enrollment has been completed in the 1,000-patient post-marketing study required by the FDA. The study follows patients treated with ArteFill?, the first and only FDA-approved non-resorbable dermal filler, for a five-year period. |

