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...plans must provide preventive and primary care, emergency services, hospitalization, physician services, outpatient services, day surgery and related anesthesia, diagnostic imaging and screenings (including X-rays), maternity and newborn care, pediatric services (including dental and vision), medical/surgical care, prescription drugs, radiation and chemotherapy, and mental health and substance abuse services ... In addition, plans could charge no cost-sharing (e.g., deductibles, copayments) ... for preventive care services ... Plans could also not include lifetime limits on coverage or annual limits on any benefits...
...There are a lot of risks of this drug," says Kain. If Diprivan was administered to Jackson, "we have somebody who underwent all the risks of anesthesia just for what? It's just outrageous, incomprehensible, it doesn't make sense. It's performing a medical procedure that's unnecessary in an environment that is most likely not licensed for it to be performed...
...women take up to five drugs over the course of their pregnancy and labor. Yet only a dozen prescription drugs are approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) during pregnancy, and they're all pregnancy-related: drugs for inducing labor, for example, or epidural anesthesia. Which means patients with many common conditions face an excruciating dilemma: decline medication whose effects on a fetus may be largely unknown or take it and worry about the consequences...
Katrina McCoy, a nurse in Cherry Hill, N.J., who is in the process of having a butterfly tattoo with her name above it removed from her arm, says she has even opted out of getting anesthesia during the painful laser sessions, because, "I feel like it is a punishment for doing something retarded." If Infinitink works as advertised, such prolonged penance may no longer be the price for a simple change of heart...
...main limitations to developments of these technologies previously was getting bad tissue reactions—nerve and muscle injuries,” said Daniel S. Kohane, one of the senior authors and an associate professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. “The compounds we use tend to have little or no direct neurotoxic or muscle-toxic effects...