Notability Companies date January 2009 Unreferenced date February 2011 Patients Not Patents is a patient advocacy group whose primary activity is challenging the validity of medical patents before the United States Patent and Trademark Office USPTO . Citation needed date January 2009 Its founder and Executive Director is Jeffrey Light . On December 23, 2005, Patients not Patents filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of LabCorp v. Metabolite, Inc . Jeffrey Light holds a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and Master s and Bachelor s of Science degrees from Brandeis University in Biochemistry. He is licensed as a Registered Attorney by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and licensed to practice law in Washington, DC. See also Humanitarian Use Licenses External links http www.patientsnotpatents.org Patients Not Patents . Dead link date March 2010 http www.patientsnotpatents.org documents amicus pnp.pdf The LabCorp v. Metabolite Amicus Brief . Dead link date March 2010 http www.guardian.co.uk usa story 0,,1735743,00.html?gusrc rss News article about the case . Category Patients organizations Category Intellectual property activism Category Biotechnology law Category Consumer protection Category United States patent law Category Healthcare reform advocacy groups in the United States med org stub activism stub ... more details
The Patients Association is a lobby group operating in the UK that aims to improve Patient patients experience of health care ref http www.patients association.org.uk About Us Patients Association About Us ref . It became a Charitable organization registered charity in 1991 ref http www.charity commission.gov.uk registeredcharities showcharity.asp?chyno 1006733 Charity Commission Extract from the Central Register of Charities maintained by the Charity Commission for England and Wales ref . Its current campaigns ref http www.patients association.org.uk Campaigns Patients Association Campaigns ref include General practitioner GP services Organ donation Care of Old age older people Nosocomial infection Healthcare associated infections Dentistry Trust in Medicine medicines Patients Right rights Unisex Mixed sex wards The Patients Association runs a helpline for patients and relatives on all non clinical matters relating to the NHS or Private healthcare. In particular it can provide advice on the NHS complaints process, access to medical records, living wills and patients rights. Its number is 08456 08 44 55. It receives most of its funding from individual and corporate membership, ref http www.charity commission.gov.uk registeredcharities ScannedAccounts Ends33 0001006733 ac 20081231 e c.pdf 2008 Patients Association Accounts Filed with the Charity Commission ref with its corporate members including various pharmaceutical, insurance, and private medical firms. ref http www.patients association.org.uk Corporate Members Patients Association Corporate Members ref It receives a smaller amount of funding through donations from patients, the public, and grant giving charitable organisations. External links http www.patients association.org.uk Official website References references Category Health in the United Kingdom Category Health charities Category Political pressure groups of the United Kingdom Category Charities based in London England org stub UK charity stub ... more details
Infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name Five Patients title orig translator image Image fivepatients.jpg 200px image caption First edition cover author Michael Crichton illustrator cover artist country United States language English language English series genre publisher Alfred A. Knopf release date June 1970 media type Print Hardcover pages 231 isbn 0394425081 oclc 79062 preceded by followed by Jasper Johns book Jasper Johns Five Patients is a non fiction book by Michael Crichton that recounts his experiences of hospital practices during the late 1960s at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts Boston . The book describes each of five patients through their hospital experience and the context of their treatment. The author notes in the foreword of the 1994 reprint of this book that medical practices both the culture, technology and finances have changed significantly since the book was written, but that the text was left as is to give us a more complete glimpse into the past. The five patients were Ralph Orlando, a construction worker seriously injured in a scaffold collapse, John O Connor, a middle aged dispatcher suffering from fever that has reduced him to a delirious wreck, Peter Luchesi, a young man who severs his hand in an accident, Sylvia Thompson, an airline passenger who suffers chest pains, and Edith Murphy, a mother of three who is diagnosed with a life threatening disease. Crichton recounts a brief history of medicine until 1969 to help contextualize hospital culture and practice, and mentions national healthcare , drug prices, healthcare costs, and healthcare politics. The increasing cost of healthcare is a major theme &ndash then at 15 per year. He quotes Dr. James Howard Means, who is critical of the American Medical Association every attempt has been made by liberally minded groups to improve ... on this point. References Crichton, Michael, Five Patients , Ballantine Books, ISBN 0 345 35464 8 ... more details
Use mdy dates date May 2011 Infobox Website name Google Patents logo File Google Patent Search Logo.png caption url http www.google.com patents http www.google.com patents commercial type web search engine search registration no owner Google author Google launch date current status Beta version beta revenue Google Patents is a search engine from Google that indexes patents and patent applications from the United States Patent and Trademark Office USPTO , which are taken from the original USPTO database which is in the public domain . All 8 million patents have been put in the database. Optical character recognition OCR has been performed on the pages to make them web search engine search able. This searchability includes all US patents and published patent applications. ref http www.uspto.gov news pr 2010 10 22.jsp Official USPTO announcement for teamwork with Google. ref History and background The service was launched on December 14, 2006. Google says it uses the same technology as that underlying Google Books , ref name gpAbout cite web url http www.google.com googlepatents about.html title About page publisher Google Patents site accessdate December 29, 2006 ref allowing scrolling through pages, and zooming in on areas. ref name gBlog cite web url http googleblog.blogspot.com ... after 2010 11 not all IBM patents were locatable, as searching for IBM patents retrieved only 1,197 results on Google Patents, but that IBM received nearly 3,000 patents in 2005 alone. ref name forbes ... title Digital Media Google Searches Patents author Rachel Rosmarin work Forbes .com site ..., the performance of Google Patents is considered to be very good. ref name epidosnews European Patent ... Patents References Reflist External links http www.google.com patents Google Patents main entry point ... Inc. Category Google services Patents Category Patent search services id Google Patents ja Google Patents sv Google Patents tr Google Patents vi Google Patents zh Google Patents ... more details
The Patents Court is a specialist court within the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales. It deals with disputes relating to intellectual property . References http www.hmcourts service.gov.uk infoabout patents crt guide.htm Patents Court Guide page of Her Majesty s Courts Service website Category High Court of Justice Category United Kingdom patent law Category English civil law Category Intellectual property law England law stub ... more details
Baidu Patents , or Baidu Zhuanli Chinese language Chinese is a China Chinese free online patent search service, launched on 1 January 2008. ref name Patent Information News http www.epo.org about us publications patent information news 2008.html Baidu Patents New free Chinese online source for patent information from China , Patent Information News issue 1 2008, page 5. ref The Baidu Patents search engine is the result of a collaboration between the China Patent Information Center CPIC , the Chinese Patent Office SIPO and Baidu . ref name Patent Information News Baidu Patent Search is said to be integrated with a patent database which amounts to 2.7 million Chinese patents. ref Kenny Lee, http tagedge.com 2007 12 29 baidu patent search goes live Baidu Patent Search Goes Live , TagEdge weblog, December 29, 2007. ref See also Google Patents Software industry in China China Software Industry Association References This article uses the Cite.php citation mechanism. If you would like more information on how to add references to this article, please see http meta.wikimedia.org wiki Cite Cite.php reflist External links cn icon http zhuanli.baidu.com Baidu Patents http www.google.com translate?u http 3A 2F 2Fzhuanli.baidu.com 2F&langpair zh 7Cen&hl en&ie UTF8 The Baidu search interface translated in English using Google Translate Category Baidu Patents Category Patent search services law stub searchengine website stub Baiduproducts zh ... more details
Patent related uncertainty around elliptic curve cryptography ECC , or ECC patents , is one of the main factors limiting its wide acceptance. For example, the OpenSSL team accepted an ECC patch only in 2005 in OpenSSL version 0.9.8 , despite the fact that it was submitted in 2002. According to Bruce Schneier as of May 31, 2007, Certicom certainly can claim ownership of ECC. The algorithm was developed and patented by the company s founders, and the patents are well written and strong. I don t like it, but they can claim ownership. ref http www.betanews.com article Certicom Patent Suit Against Sony Threatens to Unravel AACS 1180557165 Link to Quote ref Additionally, NSA has licensed MQV and other ECC patents from Certicom in a US 25 million deal for NSA Suite B algorithms. ref http www.certicom.com ..., compatible implementation techniques that are not covered by the patents. ref RSA ... cryptosystems patented? ref Additionally, Daniel Bernstein has stated that he is not aware of patents ... Bernstein, http cr.yp.to ecdh patents.html Irrelevant patents on elliptic curve cryptography ref ... if they were patented, any such patents would now be expired. Known patents Certicom holds a patent ... patents which cover the MQV Alfred Menezes Menezes , Qu, and Scott Vanstone Vanstone key agreement ... , US patent 6243467 on efficient GF 2 sup n sup calculations in normal basis terms of some patents have ... on elliptic curves According to the NSA, Certicom holds over 130 patents relating to elliptic curves ... to create a complete list of patents which are related to ECC, but a good starting point ... Content Protection violates Certicom s patents for that cryptographic method. In particular, Certicom ... patents? , Cryptography at metzdowd.com, October 15, 2005 Bodo Moeller, http article.gmane.org gmane.comp.encryption.general 7528 Re ECC patents? , Cryptography at metzdowd.com, October 17, 2005 SECG Patents held by Certicom http www.secg.org collateral certicom secg patent.pdf as of May 26, 1999 ... more details
refimprove date April 2008 patent law Patents are law legal instruments intended to encourage innovation by providing a limited monopoly to the inventor or their assignee in return for the disclosure of the invention. ref http www.uspto.gov web menu intro.html http www.uspto.gov web menu intro.html Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution ref The underlying assumption being innovation ... the costs. ref Bessen, James, 2008. The value of U.S. patents by owner and patent characteristics ... needed date April 2009 The effects of patents on a given market may vary widely according to the type ... patent, or group of patents, revolves around the balance between the expense of obtaining and maintaining the patent s , and the income derived from owning that those patents. Citation needed date April .... Patent valuation See also Intellectual property valuation Patents are not intrinsically valuable ... www.uspto.gov patents index.jsp ref and sell the product at a monopoly price . Without alternative ... arises where inventors owners use their patents to extract other advantages without actually marketing the invention e.g., cross licensing of related patents to avoid litigation, or suppressing ... of patents for patent owners as well as for the European economy. The title of the survey was Study on Evaluation the Knowledge Economy What are Patents Actually Worth? http ec.europa.eu internal ... of 20,000 patent owners who filed EPO patents between 1993 and 1997. The survey was performed ... to produce their inventions and how much monetary value their patents had been worth. The median effort ... or more person years. The median value of the patents produced was 300,000, with 10 of patent owners ... External links http www.wipo.int patent law en developments economic.html Economic Development and Patents and http www.wipo.int patent law en developments competition.html Competition and Patents on the World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO web site DEFAULTSORT Economics And Patents Category ... more details
Unreferenced date September 2007 The Cabilly patents are two US patents issued to Genentech which relate to the fundamental technology required for the artificial synthesis of antibody molecules . Citation needed date September 2007 The name refers to the lead inventor Shmuel Cabilly. There has been ongoing legal controversy surrounding these patents since the original filing in 1983. An interference between US patent 4,816,567 the original Cabilly patent issued to Genentech and US patent 4,816,397 the Boss patent issued to Celltech resulted in the issuance of a second Cabilly patent to Genentech in 2001. This new patent would therefore extend into 2018, an effective term of 29 years. A lawsuit filed by MedImmune , a licensee of the Cabilly patent, resulted in the United States Supreme Court case MedImmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc. which was decided in favor of MedImmune. Following the supreme court decision, the United States Patent and Trademark Office USPTO declared Genentech s patent invalid, but Genentech appealed that decision to the USPTO. The patent remained valid and enforceable until the process was completed. Genentech s Cabilly II patent 6,331,415 was then found, after USPTO reexamination, to be enforceable. MedImmune and Centocor have settled with Genentech 1 . Currently, two other challenges are in the courts. GlaxoSmithKline and Human Genome Sciences both are challenging the patent under antitrust law 1 . This is based on the settlement between Genentech and Celltech and their dispute over the original Cabilly patent 4,816,567 and the Celltech s patent 4,816,397. An important implication of this case is the affirmation that a licensee retains the right to challenge a licensed patent. The controversy has also called attention to the amount of time the USPTO ... biotech patents genentech claims rejected on patent which was subject of recent supreme court decision.html ... 16, 2005. http www.californiabiotechlaw.com archives biotech patents genentech hit with adverse ... more details
Italic title Infobox book series name Patients Beyond Borders image image caption books author Josef Woodman country United States Do not link, per WP OVERLINK language English Do not link, per WP OVERLINK genre Medical Travel Medical Tourism publisher Healthy Travel Media pub date 2006 2011 media type Print Patients Beyond Borders is a 2007 medical tourism guidebook by Josef Woodman . Overview The book surveys the economic and social trends associated with medical travel and provides information on medical travel destinations, ref cite web title Medical Tourism Update and Implications url http www.deloitte.com assets Dcom UnitedStates Local 20Assets Documents us chs MedicalTourism 102609.pdf publisher Deloitte accessdate 14 August 2011 ref internationally accredited hospitals and corresponding medical specialties, subspecialties and procedures. Patients Beyond Borders has been cited by mainstream press organizations as a leading guidebook for medical tourism. ref cite web title Growing ... media. ref cite web title Medical Tourism Map Where Patients Go to Save url http www.mint.com blog saving medical tourism map where patients go to save 0607201 publisher MintLife Blog accessdate 15 ... patients travel for care, most traveled destinations comparative treatment costs. Part One What medical ... services. Part Three Resources and References. Editions Josef Woodman . Patients Beyond Borders Turkey Edition . 2010 ISBN 978 0 9823361 1 3 Josef Woodman . Patients Beyond Borders Malaysia Edition . 2009 ISBN 978 0 9791079 5 5 Josef Woodman . Patients Beyond Borders Singapore Edition . 2009 ISBN 978 0 9791079 7 9 Josef Woodman . Patients Beyond Borders Thailand Edition . 2009 ISBN 978 0 9823361 2 0 Josef Woodman . Patients Beyond Borders Taiwan Edition . 2008 ISBN 978 0 9791079 3 1 Josef Woodman . Patients Beyond Borders 2nd Edition . 2008. ISBN 978 0 9791079 2 4 Josef Woodman . Patients Beyond ... Check digit 7 does not correspond to calculated figure. Josef Woodman . Patients Beyond Borders ... more details
Infobox film name Peculiar Patients Pranks image caption director Hal Roach producer Hal Roach writer Dolly Twist starring Harold Lloyd music cinematography editing distributor released film date 1915 12 22 runtime country Film US language Silent film Silent br English intertitles budget Peculiar Patients Pranks is a 1915 short film short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd . Cast Harold Lloyd Lonesome Luke Snub Pollard as Harry Pollard Gene Marsh Bebe Daniels See also Harold Lloyd filmography List of rediscovered films External links imdb title id 0005878 title Peculiar Patients Pranks Category 1915 films Category American films Category American silent short films Category 1910s comedy films Category 1910s short films Category Black and white films Category Films directed by Hal Roach silent comedy film stub ... more details
Patient s are exposed to ionizing radiations when they undergo diagnostic examinations using x rays or radiopharmaceuticals, therapy of cancer or benign lesions using radiations emitted by radioisotopes or those by radiation generators and in interventional procedures using fluoroscopy. There is a tremendous increase in use of ionizing radiation in medicine during the past two decades. Health professionals and patients are concerned about harmful effects of radiation. International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA has established a programme on radiological protection of patients in recognition of increasing importance of this topic. The emphasis in the past had been on radiation protection of staff and this emphasis has helped to reduce radiation doses to staff to levels much below the dose limits prescribed by the International Commission on Radiological Protection ICRP and accepted by most countries. The recent emphasis on radiation protection of patients is helping in developing strategies to reduce radiation doses to patient without compromising on diagnostic or therapeutic purpose. See also Journal of Radiological Protection External links http rpop.iaea.org Radiation Protection of Patients site of the IAEA http www.iaea.org International Atomic Energy Agency official site Category International health organizations Category International Atomic Energy Agency ar ... more details
Refimprove date March 2012 A patients bill of rights is a list of guarantees for those receiving medical care. It may take the form of a law or a non binding declaration. Typically a patient s bill of rights guarantees patients information, fair treatment, and autonomy over medical decisions, among other ... Patients Bill of Rights Ron Klink.jpg thumb A rally for the patients bill of rights proposed in 2001, with Bill Clinton , Joe Hoeffel , Ron Klink , Ed Rendell , and Chaka Fattah . A patients bill of rights ... Act . It was known officially as Senate Bill S.1052 and informally as the McCain Edwards Kennedy Patients ... would have provided patients key rights, such as prompt access to emergency care and medical specialist s, only the Senate passed measure would provide patients with adequate means to enforce their rights. The Senate s proposal would have conferred a broad array of rights on patients. It would have ensured that patients with health care plans had the right to have their medical decisions made ... Coalition to kill efforts to pass a Patients Bill of Rights. While it was billed as a broad based ... worked. Industry allies in Congress made sure the Patients Bill of Rights would not become ... a list of patient freedoms in 1990 which was modified and adopted as a patients bill of rights in 1995 All patients should be guaranteed the following freedoms To seek consultation with the physician ... in third party imposed penalties for patients or physicians To receive full disclosure ... States Human experimentation in the United States Patient empowerment Pregnant patients rights ... summary.html Summary of the McCain Edwards Kennedy Patients Bill of Rights http thomas.loc.gov cgi bin ... and Quality in the Health Care Industry http www.aha.org aha issues Communicating With Patients ... brochure replaces the AHA s Patients Bill of Rights. External links http www.iatrogenic.org American ... U.S. Patients Bill Of Rights Category Rights Category Health in the United States Category ... more details
Infobox film name Lonesome Luke Loses Patients image image size caption director producer Hal Roach writer narrator starring Harold Lloyd music cinematography editing distributor released start date 1917 09 16 runtime country Film US language Silent film br English intertitles budget preceded by followed by Lonesome Luke Loses Patients is a 1917 in film 1917 short film short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd . Cast Harold Lloyd Lonesome Luke Bebe Daniels Snub Pollard Bud Jamison Gus Leonard Charles Stevenson actor Charles Stevenson as Charles E. Stevenson Fred C. Newmeyer Billy Fay Sammy Brooks Gilbert Pratt Margaret Joslin as Margaret Joslin Todd Harry Todd Marie Mosquini See also Harold Lloyd filmography External links Imdb title id 0008204 title Lonesome Luke Loses Patients Category 1917 films Category 1910s comedy films Category American films Category American comedy films Category Black and white films Category 1910s short films Category American silent short films Category Films directed by Hal Roach Silent comedy film stub ... more details
Aluminium toxicity is widely considered a problem for patients on haemodialysis , and it s still a concern. Aluminium is considered as a potentially toxic metal, and aluminium poisoning may lead to mainly three disorders aluminium induced bone disease , microcytic anemia and Neurological dysfunction encephalopathy . Such conditions are more prominently observed in patients with chronic renal failure and especially in patients on haemodialysis. About 5 10 mg of aluminium enters our body daily through different sources like water, food, occupational exposure to aluminium in industries etc. ref http Carl AB, Edward RA. Fundamentals of clinical chemistry. 5th ed. Saunders Harcourt India 652 3 ref In patients with normal renal function Serum aluminium is normally lower than 6 microgarm L. ref http Peterson JR, Mohammad AA. Clinical and forensic applications of capillary electrophoresis. Humana press 388 9 ref Baseline levels of serum aluminium should be 20 microgram L. ref http KDOQI, National Kidney Foundation. K DOQI clinical practice guidelines for bone metabolism and disease in children with chronic kidney disease. Am J Kidney Dis 2005 Oct 46 4 Suppl 1 S1 121. & 91 557 references& 93 ref According to Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation AAMI standards aluminum levels in the dialysis fluid should be less than 0.01milligram L. ref http Monitoring Your Dialysis Water Treatment System. Published June, 2005. WEBSITE www.nwrenalnetwork.org Aluminium exposure. ref This is the responsibility of Healthcare team not only to define a problem but also to be sure that the problem is properly dealt with by the manufacturing , government al sectors, physician s, pharmacist and other Healthcare persons. References reflist disease stub Category Renal dialysis ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Image Patients wellfare association logo.jpg thumb 300px right The Patients Welfare Association Logo The Patients Welfare Association , abbreviated as PWA, is a non political, non governmental organization located within Civil Hospital , Karachi run by the students of Dow Medical College , which works for the medical aid of underprivileged patients by providing a number of services free of charge. The organization depends upon its donors and volunteers for its functionality and maintenance. Other than conventional charity donations and zakat funds the PWA also holds many fund raising campaigns such as bake sales and promotion in school campuses. ref http www.pwa chk.org PWA website ref ref http www.dawn.com 2005 07 06 local9.htm Dawn News article ref ref http www.thenews.com.pk print1.asp?id 131875 The News article ref Established in 1979, by three students of Dow Medical College , ref http www.dawn.com 2005 07 06 local9.htm Dawn News article ref ref http www.pwa chk.org drug 20bank.html PWA website, drug bank ref it soon transformed from being a small student ... QASID2005 2.html Official PWA News letter ref History Patients Welfare Association was established ... PWA website, drug bank ref with simple services such as free of cost drugs for needy patients. In the years ... which covers an area of two thousand square feet and provides drugs to patients free of cost. The drugs ... basis not only to patients of Civil Hospital but also extends its services to patients all over ... also started the service of providing mega unit of platelets to patients of Civil Hospital Karachi ... Five patients benefit from these tests on a daily routine. Another benefit of P.W.A. s diagnostic ..., free of cost, to patients suffering from Thalassemia and Tuberculosis . The services provided ... medicine to patients suffering from various diseases and who need constant treatment. ref http www.pwa chk.org follow 20up.html PWA website, Follow up Clinics ref Other events The Patients Welfare Association ... more details
Patients Collective Patients Front. 2 Post industrial Band SPK 3 926491 26 4.html title Trevor Blake ... Patients Collective SPK . Heidelberg 1970 71 Asylum 6 4 ref ref cite web url http www.mediafire.com ..., along with 40 ex patients from the Heidelberg Psychiatric Clinic. They were reacting, in part, in response ... newspapers?id s3whAAAAIBAJ&sjid p4oFAAAAIBAJ&pg 4626,3566207&dq socialist patients collective&hl ... Sep 1978 . ref Kristina Berster explained that the purpose of the Socialist Patients Collective was to find ... SPK literature. The SPK today Since 1973 the SPK was continued as PF, means Patientenfront Patients ... 2 Further reading Website http www.spkpfh.de www.spkpfh.de Official site of the Socialist Patients ... Patients Collective Patients Front SPK PF H http www.spkpfh.de Timeline.htm Timeline English Google ... Socialist Patients Collective Category Extraparliamentary Opposition Category Anti psychiatry cs Kolektiv ... more details
Infobox Non profit Non profit name Patients Out of Time Non profit logo Non profit type founded date 1995 founder location Howardsville, Nelson County, Virginia Howardsville, Virginia origins key people area served United States focus support the rights of patients to have a legal and safe access to the therapeutic use of cannabis. method revenue endowment num volunteers num employees num members owner Non profit slogan homepage http www.medicalcannabis.com dissolved footnotes Patients Out of Time , or POT , is a patient advocacy organization dedicated to educating public health professionals and the public about medical marijuana . Incorporated in 1995 , the group is led by medical and nursing professionals and the five remaining participants in the federal government s Investigational New Drug program for cannabis . POT is a member organization of the Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis . POT is the co sponsor of a continuing series of medicinal cannabis conferences that are accredited for continuing education. See www.medicalcannabis.com for information about The Fifth National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics to be held on the Monterey peninsula of California on April 4&5, 2008. The conference is co sponsored by the California Nurses Association and the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. POT is a 501c3 educational charity and a corporation of the Commonwealth of Virginia. POT Administration Board of Directors Mary Lynn Mathre , President Al Byrne , Secretary Treasurer Michael Aldrich, Director Irvin Rosenfeld , Director Founding Directors Melanie Dreher , RN, PhD, FAAN Barbara Douglass Neil Jacobs George McMahon author Corrine Millet Mae Nutt Denis Petro , MD Board of Advisors Michelle Aldrich David Bearman , MD Richard Bonnie , JD Sandee Burbank Joshua Braun Patrick Fourmy Ed Glick , RN Larry Hirsch , JD Michael Krawitz Bryan ... Patients Out of Time Cannabis resources Drug policy Category Medicinal use of cannabis organizations ... more details
the decision of the patients. References Kane, R. 2009 . Conscientious objection to termination of pregnancy the competing rights of patients and nurses. Journal Of Nursing Management, 17 7 , 907 ... more details
Infobox Organization name Conservatives for Patients Rights formation 2009 website http www.cprights.org cprights.org Conservatives for Patients Rights CPR is a health care pressure group founded by Rick Scott in February 2009. Scott has stated that CPR has an intention of putting pressure on Democratic Party United States U.S. Democrats to enact health care legislation based on free market principles. ref name WSJ 022609 cite news title Lobbyists Line Up to Torpedo Speech Proposals first Brody last Mullins first2 Scott last2 Kilman date February 26, 2009 work Wall Street Journal url http online.wsj.com article SB123561083268377547.html ref CPR opposes the broad outlines of Barack Obama President Obama s health care reform plan, and has hired Creative Response Concepts , a public relations firm which previously worked with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth . ref http voices.washingtonpost.com supreme court 2009 06 conservative pr firm.html Conservative PR Firm That Repped Swift Boat Vets Now Helping Fight Sotomayor , The Washington Post ref Funding sources As of March, 2009, Rick Scott had given about 5 million for a planned 20 million advertising campaign by CPR. ref name WSJ 022609 Campaign Conservatives for Patients Rights assert themselves as advocates for better health care. Their plan is described as the pillars of health care reform choice, competition, accountability and personal responsibility. ref name Critic cite news title Health Critic Brings a Past and a Wallet first Jim last Rutenberg date April 1, 2009 work The New York Times url http www.nytimes.com 2009 04 02 us politics 02scott.html ref ref name The Plans http www.cprights.org plans.php The Plans from the CPR website ref The CPR campaign for competition suggests a release of burdensome regulations against private companies in allowance of unfettered competition across the states. ref name The Plans Scott ... on Health Care Crusade. TheDCWriteUp.com DEFAULTSORT Conservatives For Patients Rights Category Political ... more details
The Patients Act 2009 Preserving Access to Targeted, Individualized, and Effective New Treatments and Services is a bill set before the United States Congress in June 2009 which has been proposed by Senators Kyl and McConnell. It is intricately linked to the health care reform program of President Obama which aims to establish a comparative effectiveness research program to provide information about the comparative effectiveness of different treatments. Purpose The http www.c span.org pdf GOPPATIENTSbill.pdf text of the bill has, as its main aim, the placing of a prohibition on the Secretary of Health and Human Services from using the results of comparative effectiveness research to withhold funding under any Federal health care for any item or service. The bill also places a burden on any comparative effectiveness program to take into account factors contributing to differences in the treatment response, or the treatment preferences of patients. This would include patient reported outcomes, genomics, personalized medicine, the unique needs of health disparity populations sic. , and indirect patient benefits. Effect of the Bill The effect of the bill would be to add a very substantial cost burden on the comparative effectiveness research program which would have to investigate and explain the differences for various responses seen in the research program before issuing guidance. The latter requirement is probably an impossible burden. Furthermore it would prevent any Federal program from citing comparative effectiveness research findings to prevent the use of any treatment which the program had discovered to be ineffective. The wide disparity in costs experienced by Medicare across the country is thought by some in government to be due to the ineffective use medical services by some practitioners which, although it increase revenues for medical service providers, does little to add to patient care. Nevertheless the Health and Human Services Department has said that comparative ... more details
The Empowering Patients First Act of 2009 H.R. 3400, introduced July 30, 2009 is legislation proposed in the United States Congress during the 1st Session of the 111th Congress as a Republican alternative to the America s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 H.R. 3200 . It contains clauses that are intended to reduce costs in the health care system such as reducing the scope of mandated health care coverage, giving insurers new subsidies, and reducing the cost of medical liability insurance . Because it contains new spending mostly subsidies and no taxes, the cost of the bill to the Federal budget over ten years would be about 100 billion higher than either of the Democratic bills passed by the House and the Senate. The bill does not prevent insurers from discriminating against those with pre existing conditions. This distinguishes it from the bills currently passed in the House and Senate which do contain provisions preventing discrimination against the sick and those considered likely to become in need of health care. It does propose but does not mandate or create the creation in each State of a high risk insurance pool for people who have been refused private insurance. Proposer claims and CBO assessment Speaking directly to President Obama, Tom Price U.S. politician Rep. Tom Price , the proposer of the bill, claimed that his bill would provide health care coverage for all Americans, would correct the significant health care challenges of portability and pre existing conditions, would solve the lawsuit abuse issue which is not addressed significantly in any of the other proposals going through the House or Senate, would write into law that medical decisions are made by family members and doctors, and does all of that without raising taxes by a penny . In his reply, President Obama was skeptical, saying if you say that we can extend coverage to all Americans and it won ... bin getdoc.cgi?dbname 111 cong bills&docid f h3400ih.txt.pdf Empowering Patients First Act Categories ... more details
Hospital, patients, health, territories is the official name of a French bill presented on 22 October 2008 by Roselyne Bachelot , minister of Health, Youth, Sports and Associative Life. The bill is commonly called bill HPST acronym of the French phrase or bill Bachelot . The bill is the first stage of the Hospital 2012 Plan, launched by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, which aims at revamping of the French health care system. The bill aims at guarantee a better and equal access to care for all French people, whatever their geographic location. This reform needs a complete overhaul of the hospitals organization, which caused strong protests among the staffs. Initial project The bill contains four main points, as defined by its official title. It would modernize the hospitals, giving them more financial means to carry out their mission and rehauling their territorial and internal organization. It would also favor research and education. To guarantee a better access to care, it would reorganize the provision of care through a coordination between the hospitals and cities. The bill would also organize it at a regional level. It would finally reinforce prevention against all addictions, especially for young people and women. Prevention The bill focus on measures to improve the health of young people. ref name presentation http www.sante sports.gouv.fr IMG pdf Dossierdepresse.pdf Pr sentation du projet de loi H pital, patients, sant et territoires , Ministry of Health, Youth and Sports ref Minors less than 18 would be forbidden from drink alcohol, and encouraged to eat fruits and vegetables. Access to health care The bill would favor a better access to good quality care by implementing ... to ensure the presence of representatives of patients in the supervisory boards of the hospitals ... http www.infirmiers.com National Coordination of Nurses DEFAULTSORT Hospital, Patients, Health, Territories Category Health in France fr H pital, patients, sant et territoire ... more details
, and trade organizations have held differing views on patents and engaged in contentious debates ... the merits and faults of software patent debate software patents and biological patent Controversy ... copyright copyright . History Criticism of patents reached an early peak in Victorian Britain between ... intellectual property , coming close to abolishing patents. ref Johns, Adrian Piracy. The Intellectual ... published anti patent views , law scholars, scientists who were concerned that patents were obstructing ... The Making of Modern Intellectual Property Law CUP 1999 , 50 56 ref Patents projected an artificial .... 248 ref Based on the criticism of patents as state granted monopolies inconsistent with free trade , the Netherlands abolished patents in 1869 having established them in 1817 , and did not reintroduce ... 15, Article 3. Retrieved on 8 October 2008. ref In Switzerland, criticism of patents delayed the introduction ... argument against patents is that they may hinder innovation and give rise to troll entities. ref ... a portfolio of patents, and sues others for infringement of these patents while doing little to develop ... title Patent troll definition and description accessdate 2008 02 15 ref Pharmaceutical patents In 2003 ... , Thailand and Uganda have started to challenge Chemical and pharmaceutical patents pharmaceutical patents , arguing that human lives are more important than patents, copyright , international trade ... Health and Medicine Week 2004 08 02 080220043339965W.html title Drugs give HIV patients longer lives ... treaty to clear up issues over patents. ref cite web url http news.bbc.co.uk 2 hi science nature 7490384.stm ... 2008 ref In response to these criticisms against pharmaceutical patents it has been pointed out that less ... could be that, without patents or other forms of research funding, the medicines in question would .... ref name autogenerated6 Patents and Tragedy of Anticommons A theoretical problem with patent ... role of patents in general in motivating invention and disclosure, argue that biomedical research ... more details
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