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When a patient has a serious illness and there is no approved drug available, the physician may want to try one that has not been authorized for marketing by national health authorities but has shown promise in clinical trials.European Named Patient Programs, like US compassionate use programs, offer physicians access to pharmaceuticals that have not yet been licensed.However, there's one important difference: in Europe an unlicensed drug can be reimbursed...

The rising number of uninsured is in large part being driven by individuals abandoning the corporate life to pursue their dreams as entrepreneurs and small business owners.Unfortunately, this trend comes at a time when more and more medications are available to help treat the severe (and the not so serious) illnesses that many people face today.However, as you probably already know, without health insurance coverage, the prescription medications that you need are too far out of reach; they are just too costly!To make matters worse, most prescription medications cost far more in the United States than they do in other industrialized nations...

National campaigns, health practitioners and even major corporations are encouraging Americans to walk longer.Unfortunately, many sedentary individuals who start walking programs quickly develop foot issues.Almost sixty million Americans have foot problems and many grow them after starting a new exercise regimen.A foot injury can take weeks, even months to heal and many will gain more weight during this healing period...

Distance education isn't new, and can be traced as far back as the first century.The Apostle Paul wrote to the early Christian churches, instructing them from a distance (even when he was under 'house arrest' in Rome).This was probably the first type of'correspondence course', which was the sole way of learning at a distance until the advent of the telephone.Today, distance education and in particular online medical assistant instruction calls upon an impressive range of technologies to enable medical assistant instructor and the medical assistant student who are separated by distance to communicate with each other either in real time (synchronous) or delayed time (asynchronous)...