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...last year, Nataline Sarkisyan was in a California hospital. Nataline was waiting for a liver transplant; the donor was ready, and doctors estimated that she had a good chance of recovery. But Nataline did not get the transplant, because her insurer (Cigna HealthCare) classified this costly but commonly-performed procedure as “experimental” and refused to pay. After an extraordinary outburst of public protest, Cigna reversed its position, but not in time to save Nataline’s life. She died...
...Meanwhile, the Cigna Corporation estimates that in 2008 it will earn over $1.15 billion in profit; its Chief Executive Officer, H. Edward Hanway, took home a personal salary of $28.8 million in 2006. That is enough to pay for over 70 liver transplants...
...Musical Industries) invested in research, which led to the first commercially available CT scanner in the early 1970s. CT was a huge plus: It could image so many things in the body that were difficult, painful or simply impossible to see otherwise - brain tumors, spine problems, problems in the liver or lung. Nevertheless, in the '90s, CT scans were largely upstaged by the vastly more complex - but radiation-free - MRI scan. Overall, few docs would disagree that the MRI is a better test. Except for being somewhat less sharp when looking at bone, MRI is clearly more sensitive and versatile...
...phosphorus bomb: "His smiling, joyful black eyes have been reduced to two little holes - the yellowish eyelids are cooked. The reeking burn of phosphorus smoke still rises from his body." Later, she rages against the American enemy that has killed so many of her friends: "Hatred is bruising my liver, blackening...
...pulling 11 lots of PedvaxHIB and two lots of COMVAX. PedvaxHIB is a vaccine that protects against infection with haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib), the bacteria that causes meningitis, pneumonia, and bloodstream infections. The COMVAX vaccine protects against haemophilius B and hepatitis B, a virus that can cause liver disease...