Word: health
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...writing to object to Dr. Ian Smith's article "Cell-Phone Scare," reacting to ABC News's 20/20 report [PERSONAL TIME: YOUR HEALTH, Nov. 1]. Those of us who spent four months investigating the safety of cell phones read Smith's column with disbelief. How could the description of our report be so inaccurate? We questioned whether Smith had even seen our two-part, 24-min. broadcast. He wrote that he was "startled by the possibility that ABC could have uncovered a smoking gun in a medical controversy that has been simmering unresolved for years." But we specifically reported, "There...
...tailing someone through cyberspace may be far more revealing of personal details. "If you go to sites about mental health or pornography, that information could be subpoenaed in a civil suit or custody battle and used against you," warns Jason Catlett, president of Junkbusters, a privacy advocacy group. That's why the Federal Trade Commission convened a workshop last week to explore the privacy implications of Web profiling. "Not only are privacy policies difficult to locate online," says ftc chairman Robert Pitofsky, "in almost all cases users don't even know this is happening...
That sounds to some critics like precertification by another name. "It can't be assumed these guys are behaving in the interest [of patients]," says Judith Feder, a health-policy expert at Georgetown University. Maybe not, but last week's decision demonstrated that even self-interest can start an HMO down the right path...
Opponents of the HMO legislation, whose final passage was always doubtful in view of the Senate's opposition, argue that United's move shows the bill is moot. "The market is far ahead of politicians," says Karen Ignagni, president of the industry trade group, the American Association of Health Plans. But proponents of the bill argue that as long as most HMOs resist going United's way--and they will until it is clear that the company can manage costs without micromanaging its doctors--patients will need the protection that comes from the threat of a lawsuit. "We need...
...found to have depression and anger-management problems and put on Prozac, which he later stopped taking. Critics of the sentence are disturbed that Kinkel's illness was not given due weight and feel that he is unlikely to get proper mental-health care in prison. "It's throwing away a life without regard for the possibility that Kinkel could change or that the circumstances that led to this could be mediated," says Barry Krisberg, president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. But Jennifer Alldredge, a student shot by Kinkel, is unmoved...