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Wednesday 27 August 2008

224,000 Californians Sign Petition Urging The Governor And Legislature To Rescind Medi-Cal Cuts

�The ten percent Medi-Cal provider cuts that went into force on July 1, 2008 have already created hardships throughout California for pharmacists and the patients they serve. More and more pharmacies take been forced to stoppage filling Medi-Cal prescriptions because pharmacies suffer money on nearly every prescription filled. To escort, 224,281 Californians have signed petitions urging the Governor and Legislature to rescind the cuts to ensure that patients have the medications they need to live healthy lives.

"Our fears regarding these Medi-Cal provider cuts ar coming reliable," said Lynn Rolston, headman executive officer of the California Pharmacists Association. "Pharmacists have been forced to make the incredibly hard decisions to turn forth patients. This has been a real struggle for pharmacists as they have served many of these patients for years and have get like family. However, some pharmacists get no choice as farsighted as the state reimburses them at $10, $20 or $ 50 or more below actual toll of the drug. It's not rocket science: You can't stay in business if you are losing money on nearly every transaction. It's a sorry situation, unitary that tin hopefully be remedied by the courts or through an alternate solution by the Legislature."

While the provider cuts affect all health care professions, the impact on pharmacy is so fearful that a grassroots alinement called Patients for Access to Medicines, which has more than 40 organizations representing millions patients and providers, was formed to speak in a integrated voice against the cuts. Pharmacy organizations along with patient and senior advocacy groups such as the Mental Health Association in California, the Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America, the California Association of Health Plans and AARP, among many others, accredit and ar speaking out against the adverse effects these cuts will receive on the patients they represent.

"Pharmacists have been encouraged by the documentation we have received from patients crossways the state," said Rolston. "If you listed all the prayer signatures last to end, it would stretch ten miles."

A report, Assessing the Effects of Medi-Cal's Ten Percent Across-the-Board Provider Reimbursement Reductions on Access, Services and the Pharmacy Provider Network, produced by Health Management Associates, shows that the reduction in Medi-Cal reimbursements will event in pharmacies receiving reimbursements for many of the drugs they dispense that are less than the cost of acquiring and dispensing the drugs. As a result, many pharmacies are beingness forced to stop accepting Medi-Cal prescriptions, which could make it difficult for Medi-Cal patients to hold the medicines they need.

These findings support a trend that has interpreted place since the Medi-Cal provider cuts went into effect lowest month.

"The real tragedy is that many of these patients cannot go for even one day without their medication," continued Rolston. "Especially those with HIV, genial illness or cancer. Any disruption in care tin can have long term adverse complications, and will resultant role in patients turning to emergency suite for fear or worse, which testament cost the state far more money than the projected savings from these Medi-Cal cuts."

To learn more about Patients for Access to Medicines or the position the Health Management Associates report, see www.calaccessrx.org. The Web site also includes summaries of actions taken by pharmacies across the state since the cuts went into effect as well as testimonials by patients wHO, in some cases, feature been ineffectual to have their prescriptions filled.

Patients for Access to Medicines is a coalition founded by the California Pharmacists Association, the National Association of Chain Drug Stores and the California Retailers Association, to fight the ten per centum Medi-Cal supplier cuts. The coalition consists of patient advocacy organizations, senior groups and pharmacies throughout California.

www.calaccessrx.org

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Thursday 7 August 2008

Dead To Fall

Artist: Dead To Fall

   Genre(s):
Metal: Alternative
   Rock

Discography:

The Phoenix Throne

Year: 2006
Tracks: 10

Villainy and Virtue

Year: 2004
Tracks: 10

Chicago metalcore outfit Dead to Fall ab initio came unitedly in 1999, undergoing diverse lineup changes end-to-end its beingness. The band debuted to bombast reviews in 2002 with Victory Records' Everything I Touch Falls to Pieces. Players on their figure one album consisted of Jonathan Hunt (vocals), Bryan Lear (guitar), Justin Jakimiak (bass), Sean Nichols (guitar), and Dan Craig (drums), and the band fructify the stage early for their bestial blend of heavy metal, hardcore, and Swedish metal tendencies. Tours with the Red Chord, Darkest Hour, and Malevolent Creation followed before member changes ensued. For their soph campaign, Hunt and Jakimiak were rounded out by drummer Evan Kaplan and guitarists Antone Jones and Matt Matera (ex-7 Angels 7 Plagues). The more than death metal-oriented Villainy & Virtue, produced by Eric Rachel (Atreyu, the Dillinger Escape Plan), appeared in September 2004, and the band adjacent exhausted time on the route with Napalm Death, Most Precious Blood, and Remembering Never. Tim Java united in on drums the following January; Chris Nolan replaced Justin Jakimiak on bass trey months subsequently. Returning to the studio, Dead to Fall next issued The Phoenix Throne in early April 2006. By this meter, the lineup was comprised of Hunt, Java, guitar player Logan Kelly, bassist Chad Fjerstad, and guitar player Aaron Nelson.

Tuesday 1 July 2008

Singer Tim McGraw helps eject unruly fan at show in Auburn, Wash.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - If Tim McGraw isn't looking for trouble, it must've been looking for him.

Fan video shot Tuesday in Auburn, Washington, shows the country singer helping to eject an unruly fan. McGraw shouts "Get rid of this guy," summons security and helps arriving crew members haul him onstage.

When the heavyset fan moves toward McGraw, the singer threatens him with a cocked fist as he's hauled away.

The band's performance of "Indian Outlaw" never stopped.

And as if on cue, McGraw steps to the microphone and picks up with the line "I ain't lookin' for trouble ..."

A statement from McGraw's representative says he witnessed the man rush up and attack a female, and he intervened when security couldn't respond quickly enough.

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On the Net:

www.timmcgraw.com

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Wednesday 18 June 2008

James Mcavoy - Mcavoy Let Jolie Take Kissing Control

Scottish actor JAMES MCAVOY let Hollywood beauty ANGELINA JOLIE take "control" when they filmed an on-screen kiss for new movie WANTED.

The Atonement star admits he was worried about locking lips with the gorgeous actress, but Jolie helped put him at ease by taking charge of the situation.

He says, "I was nervous but after five minutes I thought this is going to be all right, it's cool. She was in very good shape.

"It could be anybody when you're kissing someone on film, you have to make it look good. She's pretty much in control of the situation."

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Monday 9 June 2008

Kelsey Grammer - Kelsey Grammer Released From Hospital

LATEST: Actor KELSEY GRAMMER has been released from hospital after suffering a mild heart attack.

The 53-year-old fell ill while he was paddle-boarding in the sea near his home in Hawaii on Saturday (31May08). He was taken to a nearby hospital and then airlifted to another clinic in Honolulu.

According to his spokesman the Frasier star is "resting comfortably at his Hawaiian residence" and "wishes to thank those who phoned, emailed, or wrote expressions of concern to him."

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Sunday 18 May 2008

All Angels

Artist: All Angels

   Genre(s):
Easy Listening

Discography:

Into Paradise

Year: 2007
Tracks: 13

All Angels

Year: 2006
Tracks: 13

Dubbed "the classical Spice Girls" in the pages of Britain's Defender Unlimited, teenager vocal music quartet Entirely Angels emerged in 2006 with the fastest-selling serious music debut in U.K. chart history. Entirely Angels was the brainchild of producer/manager Steve Abbott, wHO previously scored with hellenic crossover acts of the Apostles of the Apostles the Choirboys and Nicola Benedetti. After an extensive across the nation search, Abbott selected teens Melanie Nakhla (an aspiring pilot burner), Charlotte Ritchie (an aspiring actress with a piece part in the feature movie Pestilence Muck about and the Goblet of Flaming to her course credit), Laura Wright (at the time the ruling BBC2 Young Chorister of the Yr), and Daisy Sloping trough (world Health Organization at 15 recorded her experience solo wind LP). Abbott next negotiated a speak with Universal joint, which reportedly worn come out in inordinateness of Â£1 zillion promoting Entirely Angels' self-titled debut LP. A classical/pop cross spanning from Schubert's "Ave Mare" to Robbie Williams' "Angels," the record record album sold 33,000 copies in its offset base workweek of spill, entering the British people pop charts at identification figure nina from Carolina and eclipsing 144 gross benchmarks accomplished by the likes of Luciano Pavarotti and Queen City Church.