Blood contains yellow color plasma (made up of proteins, electrolytes, nutrients) and it constitutes 55 percent of the blood. The red blood cells carry oxygen and nutrients to body parts and white blood cells help to fight infections. Platelets are necessary for blood clotting. The body should produce balanced volume of blood, not too viscous or sticky. The bone marrow produces the red blood cells and insignificant intake of iron can cause anemia that depletes the bone marrow. The problem of iron deficiency can effect hemoglobin production. The body has a system to recycle excess iron and use it later but still a number of people taking supplements of iron suffer from deficiency. This can happen because the body is suffering from blood loss. The problems of internal ulcers and gastrointestinal bleeding can cause anemia in people. Alcoholics suffer from esophageal bleeding. One can adopt alternatives such as ayurvedic cure for blood loss anemia.
The causes for iron deficiency include impaired absorption of the mineral by the body which happens mostly due to intestinal diseases. Intestinal infections and craving for non-food substances in some people are symptoms of iron deficiency. There are certain surgical procedures that impair the ability of the digestive tract to absorb iron. Ayurvedic cure for low iron levels are effective in such conditions when the body is not getting benefit from other supplements of iron. Feroplex capsule is ayurvedic cure for blood loss anemia that contains iron prepared through ayurvedic methods, where the compounds of iron can be easily absorbed into the digestive tract.
Some people suffer from poor iron absorption due to the side effects of therapies. The exposure to chemotherapies and radiations can reduce the property of bone marrow to produce red blood cells and this can cause extreme fatigue in people. Medication for anti-seizures, immune suppression, anti-clotting and antiarrhythmic medicines enhances the risk of anemia. Overgrowth of intestinal infections can cause anemia as the body fails to absorb nutrients as desired.
Even minor anemia reduces endurance. It impairs growth, motor development, decreases alertness and shortens attention span. Regular intake of ayurvedic cure for low iron levels is useful in such situations.
There are other conditions where the person may suffer from vitamin B12 deficiencies and this can cause deficiency which creates abnormally large red blood cells of short lifespan. These deficiencies are also responsible for neurological problems. Ayurvedic cure for low iron levels helps in getting rid of infections and curing anemia in a safe way.
A number of people who suffer from anemia have a diet low in iron e.g. processed foods and food low in vitamin B12. Vitamin B12 deficiency can also cause anemia. There are certain other foods which contain iron but the body is unable to absorb it from these food sources such as green vegetables and beans. Any kind of critical illness or chronic illnesses, which causes blood loss can cause anemia and the problem of monthly flow in women is also linked to anemia which can be prevented by taking ayurvedic cure for blood loss anemia.
Digital Health.net (http://www.digitalhealth.net/) has written two articles which somehow seem to be a long obituary for one of the largest Health IT initiatives ever!
The National Programme for IT has finally come to an end, although the bill for the enormously expensive and controversial project will continue to be paid for years to come.
The deadline to exit NPfIT national contracts in the North, Midlands and East passed on 7 July, marking the end of the final chapter of the £12.7 billion attempt to bring the NHS into the digital age.
Trusts in these regions should have now signed new local contracts but most have opted to simply stick with those services that were deployed under the national contracts with United States-based company CSC.
In a final move before the July deadline, four additional trusts have also applied, and will likely receive, extra Department of Health funding to deploy Lorenzo, the electronic record CSC planned to roll-out across the NME before running into development and deployment troubles.
That means 15 trusts will now receive additional central funding to deploy Lorenzo for years to come, with some of these contracts stretching out until 2022.
Health and Social Care Health Information Centre figures show that of the 782 systems deployed across 223 organisations under the NPfIT in the NME, 64 % were being retained under new local contracts.
In acute trusts this was mostly mix of older iSoft systems originally deployed as “interim” measures, such as the i.PM patient administration system, the i.CM clinical suite and related products such as the Ormis theatre system.
The National Programme for IT in the NHS came to an end in the North, Midlands and East last week. Its flagship electronic patient record was Lorenzo. After ten years trying, and millions of pounds of investment, how are recent deployments going, and what legacy will it leave? Ben Heather reports.
Peruse the board papers of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust and it soon becomes clear that it’s been a rough year on the IT front.
The trust deployed CSC’s Lorenzo as its electronic patient record on 20 May last year. It was hoped the new system would turbocharge Norfolk and Suffolk into the digital age, replacing paper and ageing, clunky software with a slick, adaptive platform. It hasn’t quite worked out that way, at least not yet.
In October last year, the Care Quality Commission warned the trust it needed to get Lorenzo in order, but as recently as June the trust’s board was still being told “performance issues” with the EPR were an “outstanding risk”.
Board papers reveal that 554 incidents relating to Lorenzo were reported on Datix between go-live and May 2016. Many of these issues were local; but others related to national “outages” that affected all trusts using Lorenzo.
Between November last year and April there were 11 such outages, and CSC, at least initially, struggled to get to the bottom of them. “Although reliability has improved, system outages have not been eliminated,” the board papers note. “Key actions are outside the control of NSFT [the trust] and so [there is] no timescale for remedy.”
It all started with the National Programme for IT
After Accenture quit the National Programme for IT in the NHS back in 2006, CSC became the sole local service provider for the North, Midlands and East of England – three fifths of the NHS.
It was due to roll-out Lorenzo to healthcare communities across these regions, but ran into repeated development delays and deployment issues. Eventually, CSC bought iSoft, which had developed Lorenzo, and with it a suite of older patient administration and clinical systems.
CSC offered these systems – primarily iPM, iCM, and the theatre system Ormis – to trusts as ‘interim’ solutions. And, despite their age, they have proved popular. Offered a chance to tender for alternatives as their national contracts ran out, most trusts chose to stick with them.
However, the number of trusts deploying Lorenzo remained small and mostly confined to ‘exemplars’ like University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, which exerted a huge effort to make Lorenzo work.
This is a story well worth reading all the way through. I find it amusing that the older iSoft products seem to have been so successful in use – showing once again how sad it was that we lost the company from Australia – much more for commercial rather than technical reasons in my view.
Overall the program ran for close to 20 years and cost billions. It will be interesting to read the book when it is finally written.
If you've smoked weed for an amount of time, there will probably be a point where you find yourself asking "is marijuana addicting?
There's usually good cause to ask yourself that question and probably do a bit of research on it to find out more about the addictive nature of marijuana.
The problem with researching the issue surrounding "is marijuana addicting?" online is that there are so many activists groups that have their own message to convey. This usually focuses around the legalization issue. So finding the truth out about marijuana and it's addictiveness, can take some time digging around the possible thousands of both scientific and social studies that's been performed over the years.
So here's the skinny on "is marijuana addicting?"
The studies that we've researched since January of this year all show that the substance is not habit-forming. With that being said this was the scientific reports suggesting this. In particular the THC that's found in the narcotic. This isn't addictive, nor is the hundreds of other cannabinoids found in weed.
With that being said,
The social studies indicate a different story altogether. There are thousands of folks every year that are checking into marijuana detox clinics just for the sole purpose of being able to stop smoking the drug.
So this seems to fly in the face of every scientific study that's been done in the past to find the answer to the question. "is marijuana addicting?"
Scientists say yes, while users of the drug end up in rehab to kick the habit it's formed.
What are you meant to do? Is it true of simply another myth.
So we dug around the scene a little bit more to explore the reality of what was happening in the dark world of drug abuse and find out what was addicting in weed, to shed some light on the issue.
What we found out was not what we expected. The weed addiction dilemma is not all a concoction of myths thrown together as a scare factor to get folks into detox clinics.
There is a real issue going on here. It's got nothing to do with the chemicals your inhaling into your body. It's the effects of weed that is leading people to believe they're addicted to weed.
Here's the kicker though. They're actually not. It's what psychologists are reporting as a psychological dependency. Something the complete opposite of a chemical addiction. A dependency dealt with through will power, understanding your habits and dealing with the triggers.
here are many pills, potions, lotions, powders, and creams that promise to melt off the pounds you've put on while you sleep. The sad truth is that only one pill sold over the counter at this point in time has the FDA back up its claims of aiding in weight loss period. This drug would be the over the counter form of the drug that has been prescribed as Xenical. In the over the counter form it is known as Alli. Alli along with diet and exercise is known to boost the weight loss process to provide more immediate and long lasting results.
With any medication such as this there are those that will tout its effectiveness as well as those that will shout out the dangers of this chemical we are potentially introducing to our bodies. The one thing that is important to remember is that Alli holds no claims to work without consistent weight loss and fitness efforts on your part. This product is meant to supplement your own efforts not to work as a substitute for your own efforts.
It should be mentioned that there are consequences that occur as the result of taking Alli and not following up with a diet that is low in fat. Among the side effects that can result are flatulence, loose stools, and bowel incontinence. This is not a drug for the faint of heart nor is it a medication for those that are not completely dedicated to the cause of loosing weight and dieting.
While Alli is not the overall solution that so many are hoping for, it can lead to more substantial effects for your efforts and that is nothing to overlook when it comes to importance. According to the website for Alli you have as much as 50% greater weight loss potential when you combine Alli with diet and exercise than dieting and exercise alone would bring. This is a huge break through for the weight loss community and diet industry at large.
While this isn't the magic pill that will melt off the pounds as you sleep it is a pill that is documented to get results and some of these results are quite impressive for those who stick to the plan. If you have been struggling with dieting, diet plans, weight loss, and incorporating a bold and beneficial fitness routine into your life there is no time like the present to check out Alli and see what outstanding results this product can introduce into your fitness plan.
If Alli helps even a tenth of those who decide to take it achieve their fitness and weight loss goals then this is the miracle product we hoped it would be. Most miracles, after all don't come free and most of them do not come for less than $100 a bottle for certain.
If you are one of the many out there who is struggling with obesity and feels hopeless when it comes to controlling your weight and your life, then perhaps Alli is the answer to your prayers. My best recommendation is to discuss this
Donald Trump, Republican candidate for the US presidency last week announced he is the "law and order" candidate, accompanied by then vice presidential contender and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
I wonder if all this interest in law and order will lead to increasing the effectiveness of enforcing laws when large US health care corporations are accused?
For years, we have been watching a parade of legal settlements made by big US health care organizations. These have included the biggest drug companies, biotechnology companies, device companies, insurance companies, etc, etc. Many involved accusations of fraud, kickbacks, and other seeming crimes.
In many cases, the alleged white collar crimes could have resulted in harms to patients. For example giving physicians kickbacks to promote particular drugs or devices could have led them to prescribe treatments that could have been useless for particular patients, yet subjected those patients to risks of adverse effects.
Yet few of these cases were resolved with findings of guilt. Many resulted in financial penalties for the accused organization, but which were tiny compared to that organization's revenue. Almost none resulted in any consequences for the people in the organization who might have individually profited from the alleged actions, particularly the top executives who were making millions of bonuses, suggesting their apparent impunity.
This parade of settlements does not look like instantiation of law and order to me, in my humble opinion.
Bristol-Myers-Squibb Settles Allegations of Kickbacks
And the parade continues. The latest case, which barely was noticed in the media, involved huge pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers-Squibb. It was best documented by Ed Silverman in Stat,
After nearly a decade of litigation, Bristol-Myers Squibb on Monday agreed to pay $30 million to settle charges by California officials of paying kickbacks to induce doctors to prescribe several of its medicines.
The settlement with the California Department of Insurance stemmed from a whistleblower lawsuit that was filed in 2007 by three former Bristol-Myers employees. They alleged that from 1997 through 2003, the drug maker used a wide variety of inducements to generate revenue. The state later joined the lawsuit in 2011 and, last year, the former employees were dismissed from the case by a state court.
The kickbacks included box seats at sporting events where doctors were given food, drinks, and parking; enrollment in a Los Angeles Lakers basketball camp for doctors and their children; prepaid golf outings at luxury courses; tickets for doctors and their families to see Broadway shows in California cities; and lavish dinners, resort hotel trips, and concert tickets for doctors who were especially big prescribers.
Among the many medicines for which doctors were persuaded to write more prescriptions were the Pravachol cholesterol pill; the Plavix blood thinner; the Abilify antipsychotic; the Glucophage diabetes treatment; and the BuSpar antianxiety drug.
A Bristol-Myers spokesman wrote us that the company denied any wrongdoing, but also noted that the firm began adhering to a voluntary industry marketing code in 2002. 'We are pleased to put this matter behind us so that we can focus on making transformational medicines for patients battling serious diseases,' he wrote.
Note that in this case, as is typical for such cases, the financial penalty seems to be minimal compared to the company's total revenues (more than $16.5 billion according to Google finance.) The company was allowed to deny wrongdoing (although in absence of same, why should it pay a fine?) No individuals who might have personally profited from the actions in question suffered any negative consequences.
Why Not More Severe Penalties for a Repeat Offender?
Furthermore, the outcome seems to have nothing to do with the accused's track record. Anyone who follows the news knows that in general, penalties in criminal cases are likely to be different for first offenders and habitual criminals. Penalties in civil cases also may depend on the defendant's track record.
However, this case, like most other cases involving big health care organizations, seems to have occurred in a vacuum, separate from the company's track record. Yet a bit of searching reveals that BMS, like many other big health care corporations, seems to have a pretty bad record.
- In 2003, for $617 million, BMS settled suits alleging it tried to prevent competition from low cost generic versions of its products Taxol and Buspar (per the NY Times). - In 2004, for $150 million, BMS settled suits by the SEC alleging accounting fraud (per the NY Times here). - In 2007, BMS paid a $1 million dollar penalty while pleading guilty to lying to federal agents about a deal with the Canadian drug company Apotex (per Law360). In 2009, it paid additional financial penalties in response to a US Federal Trade Commission charge about this case (per the FTC). - In 2007, for $515 million, BMS settled a suit alleging it used kickbacks to induce use of Abilify for dementia and by childeren, despite evidence that the drug was not suitable for either. The settlement included a five year corporate integrity agreement. (Look at our post here). - In 2014, BMS settled allegations its subsidiary Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc evaded state taxes (per the Corporate Crime Reporter) - In 2015, Bristol-Myers-Squibb settled allegations by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it bribed physicians in China to induce them to prescribe its drugs. (Look at our post here).
(Parenthetically, I apologize that many of these previous cases have not been previously mentioned on Health Care Renewal. For that I apologize. Yet some simple Google searches were all that were required to find them.)
Why did none of the law enforcers involved in the later cases do similar searches, and why did the company's track record not figure into how the current case was resolved?
Chris Christie and the Rise of the Deferred Prosecution or Corporate Integrity Agreement for Too Big to Jail Organizations
The answer to that will not be easy. At best, it now seems to be standard operating procedure for law enforcement to treat big health care organizations very gently. However, there is one clue in BMS track record that it might be helpful to discuss in this political season.
Note that in one of the biggest settlements listed above, BMS agreed to a corporate integrity agreement. According to a 2015 article in Time, the use of such agreements, coupled with apparently large fines but no other penalties, for corporate offenders was pioneered by none other than then US Attorney Chris Christie, (who spoke in the video above).
Christie was apparently horrifed by the criminal prosecution of Arthur Andersen, a big accounting firm, in the wake of the Enron scandal. At that time, federal prosecutors acted so that
The company itself—not its employees who might have been responsible—was indicted and found guilty. The trial put the company out of business. The conviction was overturned on appeal, but not before the company’s reputation was destroyed and its employees forever branded with a Scarlet Letter, representing Andersen, not Adultery.
The article described Mr Christie's response:
Christie had watched wall-to-wall coverage of the case, and it made him uncomfortable. He decided he did not want to run his office in that way. Instead of bulldozing New Jersey companies facing smaller-scale fraud cases and leaving their employees out of work, Christie preferred to build a case against the firms and then bring their leaders in for a take-it-or-leave-it chat. Ultimately, seven New Jersey corporations accepted deferred prosecution agreements, or deals with the government that let them avoid trial in exchange for the companies hiring independent monitors to oversee operations and put in place guards against future wrongdoing.
Christie often was relieved they were open to the deals. 'Put the company itself out of business? Lose all the jobs?' Christie asked when asked about the alternatives. He pointed to a corruption case he built against St. Barnabas Health Care System, the state’s largest, for double- and over-billing Medicare and Medicaid services. St. Barnabas paid $265 million to settle the case. 'What are you going to do?' Christie asks. 'Close the hospital, the largest hospital that serves the poor?'
Neither Time, nor Mr Christie seemed to notice that this reasoning involved a logical fallacy, a false dilemma. True, there are two options: 1) criminally prosecute the whole company 2) allow the company to operate under a deferred prosecution or corporate integrity agreement. But there is a third option: 3) Criminally prosecute the individuals in the company who were most involved in and most benefited from the bad behavior.
So in the St Barnabas example, what he could have done was prosecute the people at St Barnabas who were most responsible for the over-billing, and let the hospital itself go with a fine. Mr Christie for some reason never seemed to think about that option. Neither have most other US law enforcers who have dealt with large organizations since.
Ironically, Mr Christie has got himself into some ethical hot water because of how he managed corporate integrity or deferred prosecution agreements involving BMS and other health care organizations. Some have alleged that Mr Christie found some other advantages to using such agreements, advantages that accrued mainly to Mr Christie and his cronies. As the Time article noted, re BMS
As part of its penance, the company also proposed paying for a professor of business ethics at a law school. The company initially offered to pick up the tab at a school in New York. No way, Christie said. 'This is a New Jersey case. Pick a New Jersey school,' Christie replied. Rutgers already had such a program, and there was only one other law school in New Jersey. It just happened to be Christie’s alma mater, Seton Hall. 'It couldn’t have mattered less to me,' Christie says. 'I didn’t get anything out of it. I was long graduated from Seton Hall.' (The Justice Department signed off on the agreement, but would later limit U.S. Attorneys’ ability to negotiate such deals.)
Christie’s critics pounced on the $5 million payment to Seton Hall, and to this day are trying to use it as a way to suggest he is another pay-to-play New Jersey politician.
And in two other health care cases:
Christie hired former Attorney General John Ashcroft, his one-time boss, to monitor Zimmer Inc., one of the firms that settled with the government. In turn, Ashcroft’s company charged between $1.5 million and $2.9 million a month to monitor the medical device company. By the time Christie arrived in Washington to answer lawmakers’ questions, The Ashcroft Group had earned $52 million on that case. 'To me, that is outrageous,' Rep. Steve Cohen chided Christie. 'I don’t care what you did. It is not worth $52 million,' the Tennessee Democrat continued. 'Even if you took steroids and hit 70 home runs, it is not worth $52 million.'
Lawmakers also wanted to know why he named David Kelley to a post to oversee the Bristol-Myers Squibb settlement. Kelley two years earlier, as a former prosecutor, declined to bring securities fraud charges against Todd Christie, the future-Governor’s brother. Was this payback for sparing a Christie Family?
Mr Christie defended his conduct in the BMS case:
Christie to this day says he has no regrets about the deferred prosecution agreements, including the professor position. To him, it matters less about whether there was a conviction than whether the illegal behavior ended. 'The goal as the U.S. Attorney is to stop the conduct,' Christie says. 'If you’ve stopped the conduct, you’ve won.'
But of course the current case, and those involving BMS from 2014 and 2015, shows that Mr Christie's corporate integrity agreement did not "stop the conduct" at least in the case of BMS. That rationale was fallacious too.
Summary
Now that political campaigners are once again shouting about law and order, maybe this is the time to call for effective and equal enforcement of the laws regarding white collar crime in health care. For years, we have watched perpetrators of small scale Medicaid and Medicare fraud go to jail. Yet when big companies are accused of big scale crime, almost no one ever goes to jail.
It is time for equal justice for all in health care.
Laws are effective only to the extent they are enforced. A law on the books has little impact if prosecution is highly unlikely.
This country devotes substantial resources to the prosecution of crimes such as murder, assault, kidnapping, burglary and theft, both in an effort to deter future criminal activity and to provide victims with some degree of justice. Strong enforcement of corporate criminal laws serves similar goals: to deter future criminal activity by making would-be lawbreakers think twice before breaking the law and, sometimes, by helping victims recover from their injuries.
When government regulators and prosecutors fail to pursue big corporations or their executives who violate the law, or when the government lets them off with a slap on the wrist, corporate criminals have free rein to operate outside the law. They can game the system, cheat families, rip off taxpayers, and even take actions that result in the death of innocent victims—all with no serious consequences.
The failure to punish big corporations or their executives when they break the law undermines the foundations of this great country: If justice means a prison sentence for a teenager who steals a car, but it means nothing more than a sideways glance at a CEO who quietly engineers the theft of billions of dollars, then the promise of equal justice under the law has turned into a lie. The failure to prosecute big, visible crimes has a corrosive effect on the fabric of democracy and our shared belief that we are all equal in the eyes of the law.
Under the current approach to enforcement, corporate criminals routinely escape meaningful prosecution for their misconduct. This is so despite the fact that the law is unambiguous: if a corporation has violated the law, individuals within the corporation must also have violated the law. If the corporation is subject to charges of wrongdoing, so are those in the corporation who planned, authorized or took the actions. But even in cases of flagrant corporate law breaking, federal law enforcement agencies – and particularly the Department of Justice (DOJ) – rarely seek prosecution of individuals. In fact, federal agencies rarely pursue convictions of either large corporations or their executives in a court of law. Instead, they agree to criminal and civil settlements with corporations that rarely require any admission of wrongdoing and they let the executives go free without any individual accountability.
And end with a video of her speaking on the subject.
Blood contains yellow color plasma (made up of proteins, electrolytes, nutrients) and it constitutes 55 percent of the blood. The red blood cells carry oxygen and nutrients to body parts and white blood cells help to fight infections. Platelets are necessary for blood clotting. The body should produce balanced volume of blood, not too viscous or sticky. The bone marrow produces the red blood cells and insignificant intake of iron can cause anemia that depletes the bone marrow. The problem of iron deficiency can effect hemoglobin production. The body has a system to recycle excess iron and use it later but still a number of people taking supplements of iron suffer from deficiency. This can happen because the body is suffering from blood loss. The problems of internal ulcers and gastrointestinal bleeding can cause anemia in people. Alcoholics suffer from esophageal bleeding. One can adopt alternatives such as ayurvedic cure for blood loss anemia.
