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Health Buzz: Health Insurers Propose Overhaul and Other Health News - U.S. News & World Report

Health Buzz: Health Insurers Propose Overhaul and Other Health News
U.S. News & World Report - 1 hour ago
Representatives of the insurance industry told Congress yesterday that they support an overhaul of the healthcare system that would call for them to accept any customer who applies for coverage, regardless of health status, the Associated Press reports ...
Health Insurers Offer to Accept All Applicants, on Condition New York Times
Health-Care Revamp Has Wings Wall Street Journal
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Easyjet 'threatened to derail stem cell transplant' - Telegraph.co.uk

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Easyjet 'threatened to derail stem cell transplant'
Telegraph.co.uk - 39 minutes ago
The pioneering windpipe transplant carried out by doctors in Barcelona was jeopardised by easyJet when airline staff refused to allow the transportation of stem cells needed for the operation, it has been claimed.
Video: Breakthrough Windpipe Transplant Uses Stem Cells AssociatedPress

Europeans Announce Pioneering Surgery New York Times
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Five ways to keep Alzheimer's away - CNN

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Five ways to keep Alzheimer's away
CNN - 3 hours ago
By Elizabeth Cohen (CNN) -- Blanche Danick may be 86 years old, but she's pretty hip. She keeps up with all the latest health news, and a while back, she called her daughter wanting to know whether she should start taking the herb ginkgo biloba.
Ginkgo Biloba Ineffective Against Dementia, Researchers Find New York Times
Herbal supplement Ginkgo doesn't stop Alzheimer's Reuters
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TV Ads Contribute to Childhood Obesity, Economists Say - New York Times

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TV Ads Contribute to Childhood Obesity, Economists Say
New York Times - 2 hours ago
By RONI CARYN RABIN Banning fast food advertisements from children?s television programs would reduce the number of overweight children in the US by 18 percent and decrease the number of overweight teens by 14 percent, economists have estimated in a ...
Censoring Fast-Food TV Ads Might Lower Childhood Obesity Rates eFluxMedia
? Researchers Suggest Fast Food Ad Ban to Attack Obesity Consumer Affairs
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Teen Girl Lives 118 Without Heart - I Really Should Study

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Teen Girl Lives 118 Without Heart
I Really Should Study - 41 minutes ago
Seattle - D?zhana Simmons, was released from the hospital after a heart transplant on October 29, 2008. D?zhana, 14, had suffered from a rare heart condition called cardiomyopathy, an enlarged heart.
Girl lives 118 days without her heart Food Consumer
US teen lives 118 days without heart Reuters
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Home-Based Programs Benefit Older Cancer Survivors - Washington Post

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Home-Based Programs Benefit Older Cancer Survivors
Washington Post - Nov 18, 2008
TUESDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Home-based programs to get elderly cancer survivors to eat better and exercise more may help them improve their ability to live and function, a new study says.
Regular Exercise Helps Elderly Cancer Survivors SmartAboutHealth
Elderly Cancer Survivors Get Benefits From Regular Exercise dBTechno
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Study: Cincinnati-area employers to shift more health benefits costs - Bizjournals.com

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Study: Cincinnati-area employers to shift more health benefits costs
Bizjournals.com - 6 hours ago
Nearly 30 percent of Cincinnati employers responding to a survey said they would shift health benefit costs to employees next year by raising deductibles, co-pays, co-insurance or out-of-pocket maximums.
Deductibles march higher for employer-provided health insurance Los Angeles Times
Health-Insurance Deductible of $1000 Now Common Wall Street Journal
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Genetic Testing No Real Help in Predicting Type 2 Diabetes - U.S. News & World Report

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Genetic Testing No Real Help in Predicting Type 2 Diabetes
U.S. News & World Report - 19 hours ago
By Amanda Gardner WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Testing for 18 different gene variations associated with type 2 diabetes was no better at predicting a person's risk for the blood sugar disease than a doctor's assessment, researchers report.
Genetic Screening May ID Diabetes Risk WebMD
Could Genetic Testing Help Predict Type 2 Diabetes? dBTechno
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Netherlands selects Glaxo cervical cancer vaccine - The Associated Press

Netherlands selects Glaxo cervical cancer vaccine
The Associated Press - 3 hours ago
LONDON (AP) - British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Thursday that the Dutch government has selected its cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix for a nationwide vaccination program.
GlaxoSmithKline beats out Merck to supply Netherlands with vaccine Bizjournals.com
CORRECTED - Dutch pick Glaxo's Cervarix for vaccine programme Reuters
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Amgen, Takeda's Drug for Lung Cancer Suspended After Deaths - Bloomberg

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Amgen, Takeda's Drug for Lung Cancer Suspended After Deaths
Bloomberg - 13 hours ago
By David Olmos Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Amgen Inc.'s decision to suspend a clinical trial of its experimental cancer drug, motesanib, because of higher deaths among patients sets back the company's efforts to expand into the market for oncology ...
Takeda, Amgen to suspend trials of cancer drug Reuters
Amgen suspends trial of cancer drug BusinessWeek
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Early HIV Treatment Best for Babies - U.S. News & World Report

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Early HIV Treatment Best for Babies
U.S. News & World Report - 19 hours ago
By Randy Dotinga WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- A new study finalizes research that changed guidelines around the world regarding when HIV-infected babies should begin drug therapy.
Early Treatment for HIV-Positive Infants Reduces Death Risk by 76 ... Kaiser network.org
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Medicare drug plan switch can save money - San Jose Mercury News

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Medicare drug plan switch can save money
San Jose Mercury News - 7 hours ago
About 30000 people in Santa Cruz County rely on Medicare for prescription drug coverage, and almost all of them will be affected by rate hikes and plan changes that take effect Jan. 1. People can save hundreds to thousands of dollars a year by ...
Drugs.com Helps Seniors Reduce Their Prescription Drug Costs MarketWatch
Don?t Sit Pat With Your Medicare Drug Plan U.S. News & World Report
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Scientists Could Find Cure For 'Wolf Boy' - FOXNews

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Scientists Could Find Cure For 'Wolf Boy'
FOXNews - 3 hours ago
It's not easy being a preteen "wolf boy" - but scientists at Columbia University are confident they've finally found the silver bullet that can cure one.
Pruthviraj Patil 'Wolf Boy' Photos: Hypertrichosis Werewolf ... Post Chronicle
'Werewolf boy'in India China Daily
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Fertility treatments linked to certain birth defects - CNN

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Fertility treatments linked to certain birth defects
CNN - Nov 18, 2008
By Andrea M. Kane ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that infants born as a result of assisted reproductive technology, or ART -- such as in vitro fertilization and the use of donor eggs ...
Birth Defects Tied to Fertility Techniques New York Times
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Three Employees Fired After Patient Chokes on Medicine, Dies - FOXNews

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Three Employees Fired After Patient Chokes on Medicine, Dies
FOXNews - 3 hours ago
GOLDSBORO, NC - North Carolina officials have fired three employees and disciplined others in the death of a patient who was neglected for more than 22 hours at a state-operated mental hospital.
NC hospital fires 3 employees over patient abuse WRAL.com
State officials dismissed 3 after mental patient's death CharlotteObserver.com
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Rendell extends Health Care Cost Containment Council through June - Bizjournals.com

Rendell extends Health Care Cost Containment Council through June
Bizjournals.com - 3 hours ago
The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council will continue to operate at least through the end of June by executive order, Gov.
Rendell Approves Funding For Health Care Group WGAL
Rendell spares health care council Pittsburgh Post Gazette
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US panel urges study of antipsychotics in children - Reuters

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US panel urges study of antipsychotics in children
Reuters - 19 hours ago
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, Nov 19 (Reuters) - A panel of outside experts is calling on the US Food and Drug Administration and other US health agencies to study the long-term effects of prescribing powerful antipsychotic drugs to children.
Panel of Experts Warns FDA of Frequent Use of Antipsychotics in ... Kaiser network.org
Use of Antipsychotics in Children Is Criticized New York Times
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A Call for Caution in the Rush to Statins - New York Times

Current World News

A Call for Caution in the Rush to Statins
New York Times - Nov 17, 2008
By TARA PARKER-POPE David Corcoran, a science editor, explores some of the topics addressed in this week?s Science Times. Judging by recent headlines, you might think so.
Science and Technology Results of landmark statin study revealed Philippine Star
When it comes to statins, don't believe the hype Globe and Mail
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Many doctors plan to quit or cut back: survey - Reuters

USA Today

Many doctors plan to quit or cut back: survey
Reuters - Nov 17, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Primary care doctors in the United States feel overworked and nearly half plan to either cut back on how many patients they see or quit medicine entirely, according to a survey released on Tuesday.
Half of primary-care doctors in survey would leave medicine CNN
Primary care doctors in short supply USA Today
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Man Loses Several Pounds of 'Flesh' to Bacterial Infection - FOXNews

Current World News

Man Loses Several Pounds of 'Flesh' to Bacterial Infection
FOXNews - Nov 18, 2008
SEATTLE - A Mason County man who lost his penis to flesh-eating bacteria in prison has won a $300000 settlement from the Washington Department of Corrections.
Wash. pays $300K to man disfigured after prison misdiagnosis USA Today
Wash. prisons, inmate settle disfigured groin case The Associated Press
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