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August 2nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
FDA Approves Ingestible Medical
Sensor
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it has approved an
ingestible medical sensor that reports vital information on a patient’s
health back to his or her doctor.
The device, from Proteus Digital Health Inc., is only about the size of
a grain of sand and had already been approved by European health officials
last year, CBS News reported. Once swallowed, it sends out
information on whether patients are taking their medications as
instructed, as well as data on vital signs.
The sensor is designed so that it can be placed inside a pill or other
consumable and it is powered by stomach fluid, CBS said. It
transmits information to a patch on the patient’s stomach, and that data
is then relayed to a cell phone app to the patient and, with his or her
permission, to their caregiving team.
“About half of all people don’t take medications like they’re supposed
to,” Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute
in La Jolla,Calif., told the journal Nature.
“This device could be a solution to that problem, so that doctors can
know when to rev up a patient’s medication adherence,” said Topol, who is
not affiliated with the device’s maker.
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Free Contraception, Well-Woman Visits Tied to
Health Care Reform Begin
Starting Wednesday, up to 47 million American women can now gain free
access to contraception, well-woman visits, STD screening and other
benefits linked to the Affordable Care Act, CBS News reported.
“Women deserve to have control over their health care,” Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote on a
blog posted on Healthcare.gov. “Too often, they have gone without
preventive services, worrying about what even a $20 insurance co-pay would
mean to their families’ budgets and choosing to pay for groceries or rent
instead. But now, thanks to the health care law, many women won’t have to
make that choice.”
Starting Aug. 1, women will not have provide a co-pay for well-woman
visits (including annual check-ups or more if doctors deem necessary);
contraceptives and contraception counseling; HPV testing every three
years for women aged 30 or over; annual sexually transmitted disease
counseling, including HIV screening/counseling; domestic violence
screening and counseling; screening for gestational diabetes and
breast-feeding support, supplies and counseling.
The new benefits currently only apply to women who are enrolled in a
health insurance plan, CBS News notes, although more uninsured
women are expected to be included as health care reform is fully
implemented.
The free services that kick in Wednesday join other no-fee, preventive
health measures, such as mammography screening, cervical cancer screenings
(via the Pap smear) and prenatal services, that are already covered by the
Affordable Care Act.
Not everyone supports the changes, however. According to CBS
News, Catholic groups have filed 12 lawsuits in 43 courts across the
country to block the provision to supply contraception free of charge.
“The implementation of this policy marks the beginning of the end of
religious freedom in our nation,” Christen Varley, executive director of
Conscience Cause, said in a statement.
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