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WHO: 1,490 cases of new flu, 30 deaths, as scientists meet
Geneva - The World Health Organization held Tuesday an online conference of scientists from various...
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Black Patients Less Likely to Get Appropriate Care for Lung Cancer
Racial disparities are still present in the American medical system when it comes to lung cancer....
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China has long way to go on health reforms
Beijing - Chinese authorities released a long-awaited health reform action plan...
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Health Insurance Unaffordable in the US for 1.6 M People in 2007/2008
When it comes to health insurance things don’t look very good for Americans. According to a...
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Intel and GE team up on telemedicine
New York - Going to the doctor could become a thing of the past for many people if the telemedicine...
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Stents Better than Bypass Surgery at Relieving Pain
A new study presented Saturday at the American College of Cardiology conference in Orlando,...
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FDA: People Wearing Transdermal Patches during MRI Can Suffer Burns
The Food and Drug Administration, in a public health advisory issued Thursday, warned about risk...
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Obama nominates Sebelius as US health secretary
Washington - US President Barack Obama nominated Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as health...
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Combination of Two-Already Approved Drugs May Cure Resistant TB
Two FDA-approved drugs show promise in treating extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB),...
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Obama’s Budget Outline
President Obama promised more money for conservation and renewable energy in his budget outline...
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Fatal Psoriasis Drug Banned
The FDA issued a public health advisory February 19th regarding reports of a rare brain infection...
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FDA: Three Deaths from PML Tied to Genentech Psoriasis Drug Raptiva
Three patients taking Genentech’s psoriasis drug Raptiva are thought to have died of...
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Zimbabwe Fights Worst Cholera Outbreak in Its History
Zimbabwe is experiencing the worst cholera outbreak in the history of the country with almost...
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Stimulus Bill, Health Care Reform, Crucial Issues on Obama’s Agenda
Health care reform and the controversial stimulus bill continue to be crucial issues on...
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IBM Helps Google In An Effort To Put Personal Health Data Online
It looks like Google and IBM will team up in order to help get personal health data online, as the...
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Most Cancer Patients Can’t Afford Medical Care
According to a report released February 5 by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the American Cancer...
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IBM Teams up with Google for Your Health
Thanks to a new project, people who use Google Health will be able to connect their personal...
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California Seeks to End Prison Receivership
California Attorney General Jerry Brown and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger filed a motion in U.S....
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New Positive Expectations Regarding This Year’s Health Plans
As far as enhancements regarding the medical services across the nation are concerned, the Obama...
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China’s Government Plans to Spend $124 Billion on Health Care Reform
China’s government announced the decision to spend more than $120 billion over the next...
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Community-Acquired MRSA Infections On The Rise Among Kids
A study appearing in the Archives of Otalaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery reveals that rates of...
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Don’t Eat Products Containing Peanut Butter! More Products Recalled
The FDA and the CDC have told consumers to avoid eating products that contain peanut butter until...
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UNICEF To Provide $5 Million To Zimbabwe Health Sector
UNICEF Executive Director M. Ann Veneman made a three-day visit in Zimbabwe at the end of...
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HIV’s Threat Has Not Come to an End Yet
When President Bush announced in 2003 his five-year, $15 billion plan to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS...
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Child Health Plan Backed Up By Senate
The large majority of Americans get their health insurance from their work place, those who are...
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Children’s Health Program Goes to Senate for Approval
The bill intended to expand healthcare for children in low-income families is expected to breeze...
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UnitedHealth Agrees to Update Its Database
Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group Inc. on Tuesday agreed to pay $50 million to establish a new...
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UnitedHealth Reached A Hefty Agreement With New York Attorney General
UnitedHealth Group Inc., the largest U.S. health insurer, resolved a conflict-of-interest...
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Doctors Failed To Report To The FDA in 2008
As the year 2009 dawned on us, it’s time for reports on 2008, in as many domains as...
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Peanut Butter Could Be The Source Of Current Salmonella Outbreak
Peanut butter may have infected 399 people in 42 states with salmonella, according to the Minnesota...
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U.S.
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US health industry promises to tackle spiralling costs
Washington - Representatives of the US healthcare industry on Monday pledged to find savings of...
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Obama to nominate new health secretary
Washington - US President Barack Obama will nominate Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as health...
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Federal Panel: California Must Release 58,000 Inmates
Federal judges ruled yesterday that the state of California must reduce the number of inmates in...
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Hawaiian Unemployed People Can’t Afford Health Insurance
Health insurance has a become a big issue as more and more people are laid off due to the financial...
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Peanut Butter, Possibly The Source Of Current Salmonella Outbreak
Peanut butter may have infected 399 people in 42 states with salmonella, according to the Minnesota...
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Barack Obama’s Health Reform Gets Vote Of Confidence
The universal health-care systems, proposed by president elect Barack Obama, may be the last hope...
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Obama’s Health Care System Reform Plans Draw Mixed Reaction
President-elect Barack Obama’s plans of reforming the U.S. health care system passed an...
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Blue Shield Agrees To Reimburse
Blue Shield has been involved in a controversy recently, regarding medical coverage in an already...
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Obama’s Health Care Reform May Not Work
The universal health-care systems, proposed by president elect Barack Obama, may be the last hope...
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Obama Lends an Ear to Americans' Health Care Issues
Monday, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, Barack Obama’s nominee as health and human...
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CMS Releases New Nursing Home Ratings
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released on Thursday quality ratings for each of...
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Obama Names Tom Daschle As Health Care Leader
President-elect Barack Obama reasserted his pledge to overhaul the nation's healthcare system when...
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Obama Will Name Tom Daschle to Lead the Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama is
expected to nominate former Senate leader Tom Daschle as...
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How Prepared are the U.S. States for Actual Disaster?
Louisiana, North Carolina, Virginia along with New Hampshire and Wisconsin are among the five...
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Obama Learning from Clinton’s Mistakes in Health-Care
President-elect
Barack Obama, along with his administration, will be facing a major...
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Obama, Already Committed To “Change”
As the moment when Barack Obama will take over the Presidency of the United States is rapidly...
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Hillary Clinton - from rival to Obama's top US diplomat
Washington - She was Barack Obama's chief challenger in the dramatic two-year neck-and-neck race...
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Many Primary Care Doctors Not Satisfied with Their Work, Want to Quit
A survey released this week by the Physicians’ Foundation, a
non-profit group of state medical...
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Overworked Doctors Looking For Alternative Careers
It’s no secret that life as a doctor is hard and tiresome. The sheer pressure of responsibility is...
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Barack Obama’s Health-Care Reform May Help Many People
The universal health-care systems, proposed by president elect Barack Obama, may be the last hope...
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Senator Max Baucus Shifts Health-Care Reforms Into High Gear
There’s no
time to wait for president-elect of the United States Barack Obama to shift
reforming...
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Palin Urges Republicans to Keep an Eye on the Democrats
During the Republican
Governors Association meeting that was held Tuesday, November 11, GOP’s...
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Senator Baucus Urges Obama To Make Health-Care A Top Priority
Senator Max
Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, has made public his...
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Obama To Implement the Promised Changes
Barack Obama’s electoral victory has brought many Americans to tears – but tears of joy. Most...
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Barack Obama Inherits Reform-Wanting U.S. Health-Care System
American
citizens have cast their vote. And they elected Democrat Barack Obama as their
next...
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Obama victory helps turn page on US racial history
San Francisco - An 11-year-old white girl came home from school in rural California a few days...
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Voters put Obama, first African American, in White House
Washington/Chicago - Democratic candidate Barack Obama won a historic US presidential election...
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What Obama’s and McCain’s Health-Care Plans Would Bring to the Nation’s System
The two
candidates for United States president have long turned in their
essays on reforming the...
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Obama versus McCain: It’s No Longer about Them, It’s about Their Health-Care Plans
Choose a
health-care plan and stick to it. Your options: the Democratic Party’s
presidential...
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The U.S. Presidential Battle Has Moved Exclusively On The Health-Care Field
On November
4, United States citizens with the right to vote will not only
be electing the...
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World
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Mexico Prays To The Virgin Of Guadalupe For Help
When times are tough, people generally turn to their deities for help, advice or divine salvation....
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Somali pirates live high life when not on high seas
Mogadishu - They drive flashy cars, throw extravagant parties in their massive houses, talk loudly...
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British teenager wins right to die after court case is dropped
London - A terminally-ill teenager in Britain has won the right to die after she was taken to...
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Barack Obama Versus John McCain: The Health Care System Round
With the presidential
campaigns nearing the end and the elections on November 4,
2008...
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Obama To Launch Multifaceted Attack On McCain’s Health Care Plan
Barack Obama launched an attack on John McCain’s health care plan Saturday and focused its...
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Obama and McCain on U.S. Health Care
There are very few issues on which both U.S. presidential candidates agree. One of those issues is...
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Nebraska Beef In The Spotlight Once Again With Another Major Recall
One month after Nebraska Beef Ltd., one of the nation’s
largest meatpackers, was involved in a...
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The Health Care System Needs A Good Treatment
The health care plans in the United States
have become one of the main issues debated in the...
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Tomatoes-Related Salmonella Cases Rising in Texas
The number of people infected with salmonella in Texas has risen to 35 from 21 since Tuesday, the...
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Lawsuit against Veterans Affairs Begins
Although the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs insists it
has done a lot to improve healthcare...
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Bangladesh Culls Thousands of Chickens over Bird Flu Concern
The spread of deadly bird flu in Bangladesh has forced health authorities
to slaughter about...
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Plano Mother Indicted for Dropping Baby from Balcony Twice
A mother living in a Texas suburb was accused of dropping her baby girl from the second-story...
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Bush Agrees To 3 Months Extension For Children Health Program
The federal-funded health
insurance program for children has been finally given a green light,...
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Gov. Schwarzenegger May Release Thousands Prisoners to Save Budget Cash
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is considering the early release
of more than 20,000 low-risk prison...
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Intel and GE Sign $250 Million Deal in Health Care Field
Two Giant US companies announced Thursday that they will team up to produce a line of...
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Psoriasis Drug Raptiva Tied to PML Deaths
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said Genentech’s psoriasis drug Raptiva has...
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Octuplets Mother Receives Death Threats, Launches Website for Donations
Nadya Suleman, the mom who recently gave birth to octuplets, has reportedly moved from her home to...
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The Growth Rate in Health Care Spending in US Lower
The increase in health care spending in the US was the smallest since 1998 due to the growing use...
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Federal Ratings for Nursing Homes
According to a recent analysis of the government’s first ranking of nearly 16,000 nursing...
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Everybody Is Expecting Obama’s Health Care Reform
It’s not a secret to anyone that healthcare in the U.S. is currently flawed. Healthcare...
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Obama Chooses Tom Daschle For Secretary Of Health
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former Senator Tom Daschle for Secretary of Health and...
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Assisted Suicide, Momentarily Legal In Montana
Assisted suicide is among the most controversial topics today, not only in the United States, but...
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3,800 UTMB Workers to Lose Their Job
Some US
institutions have not been able to catch up with things after the Hurricane
Ike. One of...
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Barack Obama’s Health-Care Reform May Help Many
The universal health-care systems, proposed by president elect Barack Obama, may be the last hope...
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Chip Giant Intel Corp. Releases New Home Medical Monitor
Intel Corp., the biggest computer chip
maker, took a big step forward into health care Monday when...
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OHSU: 9 Million Kids Have No Health Insurance Coverage in the US
While US
presidential candidates’ debate over health care is making headlines all over
the world,...
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U.S.A Ranking Low In Infant Mortality Rate
Recent data from the Center for Disease Control and
Prevention shows that infant deaths declined...
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Angioplasty Overused in Heart Patients
Percutaneous coronary intervention, or PCI is the clinical
name for angioplasty and cardiac...
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Vitamin D Deficiency Could Result in Parkinson’s Disease
Vitamin D deficiency might be linked, among other diseases,
to an increased risk of Parkinson’s...
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AstraZeneca’s Seroquel XR Gets FDA Clearance for Bipolar Disorder
SEROQUEL XL, AstraZeneca Plc’s schizophrenia drug was approved by the Food and Drug Administration...
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Health Insurance – A Major Problem in the US
US Census Bureau released a report this week according to which only one in six people living in...
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FDA Approval For Once-Daily Treatment For Bipolar Mania, Depression
AstraZeneca Plc said today that SEROQUEL XR, the
antipsychotic medication that is used to treat...
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Scripps Conducts Study to Asses the Effects of Genetic Testing on Lifestyle Habits
San
Diego’s Scripps Translational
Science Institute announced its decision to conduct a study...
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Update: Health Care - The Presidential Race’s Discord
Over 45 million Americans – including over 8 million
children - lack health insurance, while some...
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McCain’s Health Care Progressive Plan
Health Care for America Now gave enthusiastic approval to Democrat Barack Obama and sharply...
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Bailout Legislation Expands Mental Health Coverage
Bailout legislation approved last week by Congress and
signed by President George W. Bush, as a...
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Judges Sanction San Francisco Health Plan
A three-judge appeals panel of the United States 9th Circuit Court of
Appeals ruled Tuesday that...
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Medical Costs Increase Strain, Studies And Policy Analysts Say
More and more United States citizens confront with a financial problem, which is the rising burden...
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US Medicaid Children Have Their Teeth Problems Left Untreated
An analysis released Wednesday by Government Accountability
Office showed that 6.5 million US...
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Medical Students Avoid Internal Medicine As A Specialty
Internal medicine appears to be the last option of medical
students when it comes to choose...
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Update: FDA Reveals List Of Drugs Posing Health Risks
The US Food and Drug Administration is planning to raise
awareness on possible side effects of...
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“Slacker Uprising” Free Download
Michael
Moore’s 97-minute long documentary “Slacker Uprising” will be available for
free download...
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Jerry Lewis Raises More Than Expected In This Year’s Telethon
Artiste Jerry Lewis helped raise a record $65 million for
the Muscular Dystrophy Association in...
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Update2: Number Of Americans Without Health Insurance Drops
According to a report released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Wednesday, the number of Americans...
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