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The Congress went on the 4th of July vacation without being able to pass the bill that would have prevented a 10.6 percent cut in doctors’ wages and which would have cut the subsidies the government makes to private insurers. If the bill would have passed, it would have facilitated senior citizens’ access to medical care, because the doctors would have been more likely to accept such patients, and because they would have had to pay lesser fees to insurance companies to get the medical services they would need. What is more, the Medicare bill would have put more focus on preventive...
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The Bush administration’s announcement about the 10 percent fee cut in Medicare payments for doctors managed to cause wide distress throughout the industry. Many doctors stated that if the 10 percent payment reduction will be indeed approved, they will no longer afford to see Medicare’s patients. With the new bill, doctors would end up paying for every patient what would walk through the door instead of being awarded for their work and actually making a profit.In a study released by the American Medical Association, more than 60 percent of the doctors involved in the poll, declared that they...
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If you and your spouse wish to have babies, you’d better not
delay the time of conceiving too much, at least that is what a team of French
researchers suggests.
To be more specific, they found that couples trying to conceive
when the man is over 40 will have more difficulty in doing that compared to
situations when he is younger.
For the study, researchers at France’s Eylau Centre for Assisted
Reproduction led by Dr. Stephanie Bellos monitored 21.239 cases of intrauterine
inseminations (IUI) in more than 12,000 couples between January 2002 and...
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The goverment’s efforts of finding the source of the salmonella outbreak seem to be misplaced, as so far no clear answers have been given about the illness. The inspectors from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have been conducting numerous tests on soil, vegetables and water samples, in addition to the export logs check-ups and still, the problem persists. So far more than 900 people have been reported intoxicated and many more are expected to be announced. One of the theories is that the bacteria originated from Mexico and at this point, three of the country’s major...
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The American
Academy of Pediatrics is seeking
to change some of its recommendations regarding children who have too much
so-called “bad” cholesterol.
According to the new recommendations, children as young as
eight should be given cholesterol-fighting drugs to prevent future heart
problems. This is a significant change from the previous recommendations, which
said cholesterol-reducing drugs should only be given to children older than 10
who have weight problems.
Doctors should also consider putting patients who are at
least 8 and have too much LDL cholesterol (the...
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The death of Kanye West’s mother on Saturday after she had
plastic surgery began to raise serious...
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according to a...
Four transplant recipients in Chicago, who received transplants at three local hospitals,...
The British Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has confirmed the presence of the...
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big...
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Hundreds of passengers aboard a Norwegian Cruise Lines ship that sailed around Hawaii over the past...
A new study shows that Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) may trick and destroy...
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