Canada top court upholds ban on privately labeled drugs
The Supreme Court of Canada [official website] on Friday upheld [text] a ban on pharmacies selling their own generic drug brands. The ruling addresses the Drug Interchangeability and Dispensing Fee...
View ArticleObamacare Has a Friend in the Health Care Industry
Today's post was shared by Mother Jones and comes from www.motherjones.com In the LA Times today, Noam Levey writes that Obamacare has an ace in the hole: the insurance industry. Sure, they have their...
View ArticleSocial Security’s Job
The Social Security system is an "unfair" benefit distribution plan according to some authorities. Compounding this issue is the patchwork of workers' compensation system that all seem to apply...
View ArticleWages Stagnate as U.S. Manufacturers Reap Record Profits
It appears that the "great rebound" in US wages has not happened. Wages set rates of compensation benefits paid, so the lower the wages the less benefits paid. Workers' Compensation payments have...
View ArticleFAA to Evaluate Obese Pilots for Sleep Disorder
Today's post was shared by FairWarning and comes from online.wsj.com Concern about the U.S. obesity epidemic has now moved into airplane cockpits, prompting the Federal Aviation Administration to...
View ArticleWalmart Protests Promised To Be Even Bigger This Black Friday
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.huffingtonpost.com black friday protestsWalmart workers and their supporters are planning to kick off this year's holiday shopping...
View ArticleU.S. Retailers Decline to Aid Factory Victims in Bangladesh
Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com One year after the Tazreen factory fire in Bangladesh, many retailers that sold garments produced there or inside the Rana...
View ArticleDoctors Say Heart Drug Raised Risk of an Attack
Today's post was shared by FairWarning and comes from www.nytimes.com Cardiologists have accused a small drug company of withholding data from a clinical trial showing that the company’s drug, meant...
View ArticleA Remedy for Fragmented Hospital Care
Today's post was shared by NEJM and comes from blogs.hbr.org Fragmented hospital care has been associated with higher hospital mortality and length of stay, and failures of communication and teamwork...
View ArticleThe ePrognosis App: How Calculating Life Expectancy Can Influence Healthcare...
Today's post was shared by The Health Care Blog and comes from thehealthcareblog.com By Leslie Kernisan, MDLast month an intriguing new decision support app launched, created by experts in geriatrics...
View ArticleAid Programs Helped U.S. Survive the Great Recession
moffitt The country’s welfare programs scored high marks during the Great Recession, according to a new report by Robert A. Moffitt, the Krieger-Eisenhower professor of economics at Johns Hopkins...
View ArticleEffect of Wages from Outside Massachusetts on Workers’ Compensation
In an appellate case from last year, the Massachusetts appellate court considered the case of a worker whose hand was crushed in a rolling machine at work when he was twenty-two years old. He received...
View Article3 INJURED IN ACCIDENT AT TELSA FACTORY
There was recently a workplace accident at the auto manufacturer Tesla's factory in Freemont, California. Three workers were injured and ended up in the hospital with moderate to serious burns...
View ArticleNew OSHA Construction Site Safety Rule Targets Occupational Diseases
Boston’s construction industry saw jobs decline by more than 20 percent during the recession. However, all signs indicate that Boston’s construction industry is once again booming, with 8,700...
View ArticleREPORTS OF 2 FATALITIES AND 20 INJURED IN COLORADO MINING ACCIDENT
A mining accident Sunday morning in Colorado injured 20 and killed two people. According to the Colorado Mine Safety and Health Administration, gases were released after an incident involving...
View ArticleThese Are The 36 Countries That Have Better Healthcare Systems Than The US
12 years ago, the World Health Organization released the World Health Report 2000. Inside the report there was an ambitious task — to rank the world's best healthcare systems.The results became...
View ArticleWorkers Compensation For Firefighters Discussed
The Kentucky Association of Firefighters is backing legislation that presumes full-time firefighters who develop cancer got it on the job and would be eligible to collect workers...
View ArticleIllinois Employer to Pay $10K Penalty for Lack of Workers’ Comp Insurance
Today's post was shared by votersinjuredatwork and comes from www.insurancejournal.com An uninsured employer in Illinois has pled guilty to a Class 4 felony for refusing to obtain workers’ compensation...
View ArticleRed Bird Express sued for allegedly refusing to rehire injured worker
Today's post was shared by votersinjuredatwork and comes from www.naidw.org A Worden trucking company is accused of refusing to allow an employee to come back to work after he was hurt on the...
View ArticleWhen is a Camp Liable for Injury?
A case involving a girl who acquired Lyme disease from a tick at a YMCA summer camp has brought the camp into a lawsuit for negligence. The girl’s parents claim that YMCA’s Camp Mohawk, located in...
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