UPI Health Business articles from December 2006

UPI Health Business archives from December 2006

Interview: Facts on uterine fibroids.
December 1, 2006... Byline: LEAH CARLINER WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Uterine fibroids are common, non-cancerous growths that develop in the muscular wall of the uterus. Dr. Robert Worthington-Kirsch, an interventional radiologist with a private practice...

Analysis: IV aspirin zaps aneurysm clots.
December 1, 2006... Byline: ED SUSMAN CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Researchers said this week that administering intravenous aspirin to patients before attempting to deal with dangerous brain aneurysms sharply reduces unwanted clotting during the procedure. ...

Analysis: Cost bars most from coverage.
December 1, 2006... Byline: OLGA PIERCE WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A majority of uninsured Americans lack coverage because they cannot afford it -- not because they have turned it down, according to a new study. "There is a middle group of people who are...

Analysis: Unfair Medicare Advantage?
December 1, 2006... Byline: OLGA PIERCE WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Instead of saving money, moving seniors to private Medicare HMOs is costing taxpayers more -- to the tune of $5.2 billion per year, according to new research. On average, coverage through...

Analysis: Pfizer strengthening pipeline.
December 1, 2006... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Pfizer, which began the week by announcing it would reduce its U.S. sales force, ended the week raising its profits forecast for 2006 and announcing plans to expand its drug pipeline...

The holidays are here -- now, relax.
December 1, 2006... Byline: CHRISTINE DELL'AMORE WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The holiday season has arrived, and with the trimmings and cheer also comes great expectations of ideal gifts and seamless family gatherings. But the pressure to be perfect can...

World AIDS Day highlights need for vaccine.
December 1, 2006... Byline: JACOB RUSSELL WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- World AIDS Day, recognized every Dec. 1, has been running strong for 19 years now, and this year's theme is accountability. The day strives to raise awareness of the global AIDS...

Caregiving: Shopping meltdown -- 3.
December 1, 2006... Byline: ALEX CUKAN BUFFALO, N.Y., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A caregiver paradox is that just when caregivers need to buy more and more for the care recipient, they have less and less time for shopping and less money to pay for it all. A study in...

Analysis: Citizenship rule strains states.
December 1, 2006... Byline: OLGA PIERCE WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- As stringent new Medicaid citizenship documentation requirements approach their six-month mark, states and consumer advocates are struggling to make sure the stricter rules do not deprive...

WellPoint expands operations in Indiana.
December 4, 2006... INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. insurance titan WellPoint said Monday it will significantly expand its Indiana specialty pharmacy/managed-care Medicaid operations. The insurer said it would house its growing PrecisionRx Specialty...

Eat To Live: Chef speaks out on nutrition.
December 4, 2006... Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Restaurateur Nora Pouillon has been making waves again. Owner and chef of Nora, America's first fully certified organic restaurant, and Asia Nora, both in Washington, Pouillon called on...

Analysis: The states that wouldn't wait.
December 4, 2006... Byline: JACOB RUSSELL WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- In light of the innovative healthcare reforms under way in states like Vermont, Massachusetts and Utah, these state-level initiatives might be used to jump-start stalled reforms at the...

Ped Med: Scientists study genes in autism.
December 4, 2006... Byline: LIDIA WASOWICZ SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Most mainstream scientists think there is a strong genetic component to autism that determines who will fall and who will stand strong in an encounter with an environmental health...

Analysis: Epilepsy pipeline dazzles.
December 4, 2006... Byline: ED SUSMAN SAN DIEGO, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Despite multiple drugs and other therapies available for treating the 2.7 million Americans who suffer from various forms of epilepsy, doctors say new medications in the pharmaceutical pipeline...

Analysis: Pfizer's loss AstraZeneca's gain.
December 4, 2006... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- AstraZeneca's Crestor stands to benefit from Pfizer's termination of torcetrapib, but the company's anti-psychotic Seroquel may have to contend with the negative results of the CATIE...

Drugs up suicide attempts but lower deaths.
December 4, 2006... KUOPIO, Finland, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Suicidal patients taking anti-depressant drugs appear to attempt suicide more often but complete the act less often, say Finnish researchers. The team, led by Jari Tiihonen at the University of Kuopio, found...

CDC: Climate change a health threat.
December 4, 2006... Byline: CHRISTINE DELL'AMORE ATLANTA, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The "rising scientific certainty" of climate change should mobilize environmental health professionals to take aggressive action, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director...

Eat To Live: Heavenly food safe to eat.
December 5, 2006... Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- When Yuri Gagarin circled the Earth in April 1961, his single orbit spin-flight snack was a head of garlic and a small salami sausage. This Thanksgiving weekend astronauts on the...

Report: U.S. health progress stagnant.
December 5, 2006... Byline: CHRISTINE DELL'AMORE ATLANTA, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Health progress in the United States has slowed to a near standstill, bogged down by persistent cigarette smoking, a boom in obesity and a staggering number of families without health...

HealthWrap: Heart check at your fingertips.
December 5, 2006... Byline: LIDIA WASOWICZ SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- A new pocket-size device places the ability to keep tabs on potentially dangerous irregular heartbeats literally at the patient's fingertips, its creator says. The software edition...

Analysis: Study may aid Sanofi's Acomplia.
December 5, 2006... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Sanofi aventis may get a boost from a study released Tuesday showing Acomplia improved several risk factors in type 2 diabetes patients. The study results come as good news for Sanofi,...

Analysis: Gamma knife zaps epilepsy.
December 5, 2006... Byline: ED SUSMAN SAN DIEGO, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- So-called Gamma Knife surgery -- focusing radiation to one point in the brain -- offers an alternative to open surgery for one of the most common forms of epilepsy. "We had a 67 percent...

Analysis:Health status varies by state.
December 5, 2006... Byline: LAURA GILCREST WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- A new study released Tuesday reveals stunning disparities in health status among the 50 states, but instead of simply throwing more money at the problem, state health officials should...

Lexapro beats Cymbalta in depression study.
December 6, 2006... NEW YORK, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. firm Forest Labs said Wednesday a new study showed its anti-depressant Lexapro works better than Eli Lilly's Cymbalta. The company said the 270-patient trial revealed treatment with Lexapro resulted in a...

Research: New approach needed on marijuana.
December 6, 2006... Byline: LEAH CARLINER WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Children who have clean teeth may not just be cavity-free. They may also be drug-free. According to a 12-year study, the most effective way to combat marijuana use among teens may be to...

Interview: EPA's Stephen L. Johnson.
December 6, 2006... Byline: CHRISTINE DELL'AMORE ATLANTA, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Innovation in protecting the environment and health could come in new energy technologies and a local community approach to problems, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator...

Analysis: Panel's impact on stents minor.
December 6, 2006... Byline: LAURA GILCREST WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration prepares to meet this week with a panel of medical-device experts on mounting evidence that drug-eluting coronary stents may pose a higher...

Analysis: Gleevec's CML survival story.
December 6, 2006... Byline: ED SUSMAN WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Dec. 6 (UPI) -- After five years of treatment nearly 90 percent of leukemia patients treated with Gleevec are still alive -- an outcome barely conceivable before the drug was discovered. "The...

Analysis: MedImmune expects growth to 2009.
December 6, 2006... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- MedImmune Wednesday reconfirmed its 2006 guidance of $1.3 billion in revenues and fleshed out the details of its goal to drive that up to $2 billion in revenues in 2009. The guidance,...

Caregiving: Shopping meltdown -- 4.
December 6, 2006... Byline: ALEX CUKAN Some 70 percent of wealthy Americans describe themselves as recreational shoppers, according to a survey of 1,250 upper-income shoppers with an average income of $111,800. I believe the other 30 percent are caregiver...

Eat To Live: Thieves' wheel of fortune.
December 7, 2006... Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Here's a plot that might appeal to Martin Scorsese -- if he wanted to film a crooks' comedy. Trucks in northern Italy are being hijacked by villains suspected of having links to the Mafia....

Myriad causes implicated in obesity boom.
December 7, 2006... Byline: LAURA HEATON WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- A decision by the New York City Board of Health to ban artificial trans fats is the latest, and perhaps most controversial, effort to stem the obesity epidemic. With an estimated 65...

Analysis: Big pharma eyeing Sangamo?
December 7, 2006... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Sangamo's update this week on its clinical programs impressed analysts, some of whom now view the company as the leader in the gene regulation and correction field and think it could be a...

Analysis: Senate backs FDA nominee.
December 7, 2006... Byline: TODD ZWILLICH WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate voted to back President' Bush's choice to lead the Food and Drug Administration Thursday. The Senate's approval came after months of protests from Republicans and...

Hajj pilgrims need flu shots, docs.
December 7, 2006... EDINBURGH, Scotland, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- People planning to make the Hajj pilgrimage should get flu shots beforehand to reduce the risk of a global flu pandemic, say British doctors. At the end of January, two million Muslim pilgrims from...

Analysis: Consumerism lacks impact so far.
December 8, 2006... Byline: OLGA PIERCE WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Early evidence suggests consumer-directed health plans may not be poised to be the solution to the nation's healthcare woes, experts said this week. The plans, which feature...

Eat to Live: Shoppers affect what's grown.
December 8, 2006... Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Just as New York has banned trans fats from food in restaurants, a report has come out that finds three out of four food shoppers believe what they eat at home is healthier than meals they...

EcoWellness: Polonium's dangerous kin.
December 8, 2006... Byline: CHRISTINE DELL'AMORE WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Polonium-210, the rare radioactive substance that fatally poisoned a Russian ex-spy, doesn't pose a threat to most. Found in tiny amounts in the Earth's crust, it's an alpha emitter,...

Ped Med: Studies eye autistic kids' kin.
December 8, 2006... Byline: LIDIA WASOWICZ SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- A number of studies have shown parents and siblings of autistic children sometimes share some of the anatomical and behavioral anomalies characteristic of autism, even though they...

Analysis: Lilly lowers 2007 forecast.
December 8, 2006... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Eli Lilly this week said 2007 earnings will be less than expected, but its anticipated $2.1 billion acquisition of ICOS should boost earnings and sales through 2008 and beyond. Lilly...

Analysis: Healthcare as political quagmire.
December 8, 2006... Byline: OLGA PIERCE WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- A new poll suggests Americans want action on healthcare issues, but there is no consensus about what kind of action, and also a lack of will to make difficult trade-offs. Meanwhile, a...

Analysis: Panel urges warning on stents.
December 11, 2006... Byline: TODD ZWILLICH WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended new warnings Friday for popular medical devices used in millions of patients with cardiovascular disease. Experts said the two...

Eat To Live: Food safety giants battle.(Recipe)
December 11, 2006... Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- With globalization bringing us foods from places we probably couldn't find on the map, it's a relief to know that there are official bodies out there whose job is to stay vigilant over food...

Analysis: Celgene's Revlimid looks strong.
December 11, 2006... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Data being presented this week should help drive sales of Celgene's Revlimid, but analysts are split on the size of the impact. The studies, which are being presented at the American...

Analysis: Transplant drug fights leukemia.
December 11, 2006... Byline: ED SUSMAN ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Doctors said Monday that a drug often used in preventing organ rejection in transplant patients appears to have a major impact on the most common form of adult leukemia. "Campath...

Analysis: Congress gives healthcare gift.
December 11, 2006... Byline: OLGA PIERCE WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Congress delivered a last-minute holiday package over the weekend for 600,000 low-income children who faced losing their government-sponsored health insurance coverage, but they will still...

Exercising for weight loss a boon to bones.
December 11, 2006... Byline: CHRISTINE DELL'AMORE WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Losing weight through exercise prevents the loss of bone density that occurs from just cutting calories to shed pounds, a new study has found. "This suggests you'd want to do...

The Age of Autism: 'Problems' in CDC data.
December 11, 2006... Byline: DAN OLMSTED WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- For three years, the CDC has used a study conducted on its own Vaccine Safety Datalink to reassure parents that mercury in vaccines does not cause autism. Now a panel of government-appointed...

Caregiving: Shopping meltdown -- 5.
December 12, 2006... Byline: ALEX CUKAN BUFFALO, N.Y., Dec. 12 (UPI) -- The average U.S. household spends 13 percent of its income on food, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics -- but I believe the caregiver spends a lot more. I know I do. What...

Ped Med: The hunt for autism genes.
December 12, 2006... Byline: LIDIA WASOWICZ SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Having uncovered what they deem to be convincing evidence of genes' involvement in autism, scientific sleuths are now trying to hunt them down. Thus far, they have been unable to...

Analysis: Analysts split on Endo's Opana.
December 12, 2006... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Sales of Endo's painkiller Opana ER are starting to take off after a disappointing launch earlier this year, which is satisfying some analysts but disappointing others. "The curve is...

Analysis: New drugs attack blood diseases.
December 12, 2006... Byline: ED SUSMAN ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Scientists said Tuesday that new experimental medications are being rolled out from pharmaceutical companies to defeat some of the uncommon but deadly and mysterious diseases -- cancers and...

Analysis: SCHIP on Congress's shoulders.
December 13, 2006... Byline: OLGA PIERCE WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- The 110th Congress has not yet convened, but advocates are already mobilizing for a key federal program providing health insurance to nearly 7 million low-income children -- a program that...

Eat To Live: Top chefs' method manifesto.
December 13, 2006... Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Four titans of the food world this week signed an open letter that should influence more than those fortunate expense-account diners who can afford to eat at these maestros' tables. ...

EcoWellness: Kids' sprawling waistlines?
December 13, 2006... Byline: CHRISTINE DELL'AMORE WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- A new study has found adolescents who live in sprawling counties are more likely to be obese than their counterparts in dense counties, results that echo similar findings in adults....

Analysis: Analysts sour on NeoPharm.
December 13, 2006... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Analysts question the future outlook of NeoPharm after a phase 3 trial of its potential brain cancer treatment, cintredekin besudotox, failed to show better efficacy than MGI Pharma's...

Analysis: Hospital quality goals doubted.
December 13, 2006... WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- In response to a wave of pressure from consumers, insurers and the federal government, hospitals have begun recording measures of their performance and then making their scores available to the public. But a...

Analysis:Antidepressant warnings tougher.
December 13, 2006... Byline: TODD ZWILLICH WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Food and Drug Administration officials said Wednesday they plan to broaden safety warnings on antidepressant drugs on the heels of studies suggesting the medications raise the risk of...

Ped Med: Studies look at heredity, autism.
December 13, 2006... Byline: LIDIA WASOWICZ SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Autism investigators are collecting clues about genes that may be responsible for inherited traits which by themselves do not cause the disorder but may be associated with it. A...

Interview: Allergy awareness.
December 14, 2006... Byline: CHRISTINE DELL'AMORE WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Whether it's a cough induced by household dust or a serious reaction from a bee sting, allergic reactions are nothing to sneeze at. Common allergic reactions include hay fever, or...

Analysis: Breast-cancer vaccine advancing.
December 14, 2006... Byline: ED SUSMAN SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- An experimental vaccine to prevent recurrence of breast cancer performed well enough in preliminary studies for investigators to seek government approval to pursue its development. In the...

Analysis: FDA eyes factor VIII products.
December 14, 2006... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- The Food and Drug Administration is set to examine Friday whether plasma-derived factor VIII products pose a risk of transmitting human mad cow disease and hemophilia patient advocates...

Analysis: Controversial antibiotic debated.
December 14, 2006... Byline: TODD ZWILLICH SILVER SPRING, Md., Dec. 14 (UPI) -- A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee will decide Friday whether to recommend that a widely used but controversial antibiotic be removed from the market. The drug,...

HealthWrap: Food can please health, palate.
December 15, 2006... Byline: LIDIA WASOWICZ While you may not be able to have your cake and eat it too, you can indulge in some of your favorite foods without compromising your health, a chef advises. The key is including the right ingredients -- flax,...

Caregiving: Shopping meltdown -- 6.
December 15, 2006... Byline: ALEX CUKAN ALBANY, N.Y., Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The receptionist at my insurance agency has a 92-year-old grandmother who has 30 grandchildren, so getting someone to do her errands and buy her groceries is not a problem. Others are not...

Analysis: Combo ups breast-cancer survival.
December 15, 2006... Byline: ED SUSMAN SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Treatment with two of the newer anti-cancer drugs appears to extend survival for women with breast cancer that has spread through their bodies, doctors said this week. The use of...

Analysis: The Global Fund turns 5.
December 15, 2006... Byline: OLGA PIERCE WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- In just five years the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has pioneered a new model of global health financing, but its ongoing success rests on its ability to survive the...

Eat To Live: Healthily festive eating.(Recipe)
December 15, 2006... Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- In the regular vocabulary of the modern-day celebrity chef are words you seldom hear in culinary school or cookery courses. "Seasonal" and "fresh" are the most popular. Among the more...

Depression treatment decoded.
December 15, 2006... Byline: CHRISTINE DELL'AMORE WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's recent decision to update its black-box warning on anti-depressants for young adults may leave depression sufferers and their families...

Analysis: Medicare to pay for performance.
December 16, 2006... Byline: OLGA PIERCE WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Pay for performance -- and the controversy that goes with it -- is now a part of Medicare. In the last moments of the lame duck session, Congress replaced a 5 percent cut in the rate...

Analysis: Novartis drug OK despite delay.
December 18, 2006... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Novartis' announcement this week that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration delayed its decision on its blood-pressure drug Tekturna by up to three months was overshadowed by the news...

Analysis: Lumpectomy without radiation?
December 18, 2006... Byline: ED SUSMAN SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Doctors said Monday that treating certain breast-cancer patients with surgery alone -- or without standard courses of radiation -- resulted in a low 6-percent risk of the cancer returning...

Eat To Live: Saving food traditions.
December 18, 2006... Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- As environmentalists rush to save the earth fearful for the future of large swathes of it, foodies rush to save national cuisines whose traditions they think have already disappeared. ...

HealthWrap: Tips for safe, healthy holiday.
December 18, 2006... Byline: LIDIA WASOWICZ From tacking Christmas lights to trimming gastronomical delights, there are steps you can take to secure your safety and health during the holiday season. "Holiday home decoration used to mean stringing lights...

Analysis: Ketek least of Sanofi's problems.
December 18, 2006... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee's recommendation that use of Sanofi-aventis' antibiotic Ketek should be limited due to liver failure concerns may have little financial...

Drug fights blindness in diabetics.
December 18, 2006... BALTIMORE, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Ranibuzumab, which is used to treat macular degeneration, shows promise against diabetic retinopathy, U.S. physicians said Monday. According to researchers at Johns Hopkins' Wilmer Eye Institute, the drug, sold...

Surgery deemed safe for HIV patients.
December 18, 2006... Byline: CHRISTINE DELL'AMORE WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- HIV-positive patients can expect to recover from surgery as well as uninfected patients, another example of how Americans living with HIV are "approaching normalcy" in most aspects...

Analysis: Foster kids off citizenship hook.
December 18, 2006... Byline: OLGA PIERCE WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Shortly before adjourning, Congress exempted 500,000 foster children from a controversial new requirement that Medicaid applicants prove their citizenship. Critics of the law welcomed...

Eat To Live: Recipes for safe reveling.
December 19, 2006... Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The holiday season is the time of year for the sort of parties Bette Davis and Clark Gable would have graced as a matter of course. You know, the kind of elegantly louche event that would...

Ped Med: The many faces of autism.
December 19, 2006... Byline: LIDIA WASOWICZ SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Although all show some degree of difficulty in socializing, communicating and imagining, like snowflakes, no two cases of autism are exactly alike, researchers say. Their newfound...

Analysis: Genentech to endure Rituxan jolt.
December 19, 2006... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned that Genentech's drug Rituxan has been associated with cases of a fatal brain illness, but analysts said Tuesday this will have little...

Analysis: OTC painkiller warnings toughened.
December 19, 2006... Byline: TODD ZWILLICH WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday proposed new rules that would tighten safety warnings for over-the-counter pain relievers used by hundreds of millions of Americans. ...

Analysis: Stopping breast-cancer return.
December 19, 2006... Byline: ED SUSMAN SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- At the recent record-setting San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, researchers outlined advances in preventing ways to keep the disease from returning after surgery and how to treat breast...

Analysis: New mental health measures begin.
December 19, 2006... Byline: OLGA PIERCE WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Performance criteria have already been developed for doctors who treat patients with conditions like cardiac arrest and diabetes, but now, doctors who treat patients with mental disorders...