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Health News 1997
JANUARY | 1997
- 1997 Begins with WC Rates Dropping and Reforms Continuing
- Occupational Medicine Mergers Continue
- California Class Action Lawsuit May Force Workers Compensation Rebate
- Isocyanates May Cause Effects at Lower Levels than Previously Thought
- Judge Strikes Down Key Section of Arkansas Patient Protection Act
- OSHA Orders Reduced Exposure To Methylene Chloride
- OSHA Director Joseph Dear Steps Down
- California’s Office of Administrative Law Rejects Ergonomic Standard
- UAW Petitions Federal Court for Review of OSHA Methylene Chloride Standard
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FEBRUARY | 1997
- Update: NIOSH Re–Visiting Back Belt Issue
- HealthSouth to Acquire Horizon/CMS for $1.6 Billion
- JCAHO to Require Hospitals to Study Outcomes
- NIOSH Exploratory Study on Keyboard Design Finds No Difference in User Comfort
- Blood Lead Continues Drop in Third Quarter of 1996
- New Jersey Adopts HMO Consumer "Bill of Rights"
- Ohio Prepares for WC Overhaul
- San Diego: Sharp–Columbia/HCA Joint Venture Off
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MARCH | 1997
- Mergers Continue: Cigna to Buy Healthsource
- Study Compares Non-Profit and For-Profit Hospitals
- Ohio Takes Over Blue Cross Blue Shield
- OSHA Reports Injury Rates Dropping
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Seeks Proposals
- Revised California Ergonomics Regulations Released for Public Comment
- Policyholders Stunned by Ohio BC/BS Secret Deal
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APRIL | 1997
- Guidelines on Hepatitis C Released
- Columbia/HCA Investigations Continue
- Workplace Injuries Declined in 1995
- Supreme Court Strikes Down Drug Testing of Politicians
- Mergers Continue: CRA and OccuSystems
- Eighth Circuit Court Rules that ERISA Does Not Protect HMO’s from Incentive–Related Death
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MAY | 1997
- EEOC Releases Guidelines on ADA and Mental Illness
- Judge Overturns Digital Keyboard Verdict
- Supreme Court Ruling Clarifies ERISA Protections of Worker Health Benefits
- Guidelines for Healthcare Workers Infected with Bloodborne Pathogens Issued
JUNE | 1997
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JULY | 1997
- New Study: Smoking Linked to Back Problems
- NIOSH Study Links Workplace Factors to Certain Musculoskeletal Disorders
- New Study: HMOs Save Money in Workers’ Compensation
- California HMO "Guilty" of Malpractice
- Federal Investigators Raid Columbia/HCA Hospitals and Offices in Six States
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AUGUST | 1997
- New Study: Back Injury Prevention Training Ineffective
- Resignations and Indictments Hit Columbia/HCA
- New England Journal of Medicine Criticizes "Putting Patients First" Initiative
- HealthSouth Expresses Interest in Acquiring Columbia/HCA’s Occupational Clinics
- OSHA Blocked from Issuing Ergonomics Standard for at Least a Year
- New Study: Breast Feeding Reduces Impact of PCBs on Breast Cancer
- New Study: Public’s Belief in For–Profit Health Providers Declines
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SEPTEMBER | 1997
- 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Limiting Mental Disability Benefits Does Not Violate ADA
- 58 North Carolina Physicians Resign From Healthsource
- OSHA’s Ergonomics Training Initiative Continues
- California Superior Court Decision Strengthens Ergonomics Standard
- 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals: Asymptomatic HIV Infection Not a Disability under ADA
OCTOBER | 1997
- Anthem Suspending Acquisition Plans
- Three Top AMA Officers Leave in Fallout from Sunbeam Deal
- Aetna Having Difficulty Integrating U.S. Healthcare
- USPHS Recommendations of Occupational HIV Prophylaxis Found to be "Cost–Effective"
- NovaCare Acquires Liberty Mutual’s Occupational Health Clinic Business
- Cigna Forms Subsidiary to Offer Integrated Disability Management
- New Lancet Study: Downsizing is a Health Risk
- Columbia/HCA Terminating Controversial Physician Partnerships
- Federal Efforts Underway to Attempt to Reform Managed Care
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NOVEMBER | 1997
- Aetna Reported to be in Negotiations to Acquire NYLCare
- NIH Panel Issues Consensus Statement on Acupuncture
- New Study Helps Clarify Role of Vitamin B6 in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- New Regulations to Raise Cut–Off for Opiates in Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs
- CDC Study Finds Postexposure Prophylaxis with Zidovudine Protective in Occupational HIV Exposure
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DECEMBER | 1997
- OSHA Seeking Public Comment on Proposed TB Standard
- New Study: Hepatitis B Vaccination Has Dramatically Reduced Disease Risk in Healthcare Workers
- New York Court of Appeals Upholds Delta Airlines Weight–Based Job Rejections
- Jury Orders Yale To Pay $12.2 Million To HIV–Positive Physician
- Kaiser Permanente Settles Texas Malpractice Lawsuit
- New Study: Keyboard Force Correlates with Upper Extremity Symptoms
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