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Health Insurer Tests Program For Abroad Surgery
The health insurer Wellpoint is testing a new program that gives covered patients the option of...
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CDC Advice For HIV Testing Still Not Followed In Many ERs
Back in 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
called for virtually all patients...
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Investigation Shows Disastrous Situation in Washington Hospitals
A news investigation conducted by The Times takes a hard look at Washington hospitals’ failure to...
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Hospitals Ignore MRSA Infections
A very dangerous hospital infection is killing a shocking number of patients, according to a recent...
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Diarrhea Bacteria Spreads In Hospitals From U.S.
Researchers reported on Tuesday that a common form of diarrhea is most spread in the U.S. hospitals...
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Google Will Keep Track Of Flu Searches
Google, through its philanthropic arm, Google.org, is trying to help U.S. authorities fight the flu...
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Google Releases Its New Service: Flu Trends
Google Inc. announced the release of a new tool, which will
provide information about potential...
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Clostridium Difficile Takes Over Hospitals
Despite being anti-septic, hospitals are still filled with the largest number of diseases,...
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Severe Diarrhea Bacteria More Common in Hospital than Thought
A bacterium known as Clostridium Difficile or C. Diff, which
causes a drug-resistant virulent...
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Survey Shows More Hospital Patients Get Sick with Intestinal Infections
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and
Epidemiology reports that more hospital...
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Many U.S. Patient Aren’t Satisfied With Their Care
A good number of patients are contended with the care they receive when hospitalized but many are...
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Update: Survey Shows Many US Hospitals Get Low Scores On Pain Management
In an attempt to provide a portrait of
patients’ experiences in US hospitals, a team of...
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MRSA Epidemic
The Staphylococcus bacterium can build up strength if given
the appropriate conditions. A warm,...
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Staph Infections May Cause Serious Illnesses
Doctors announced on Monday that the staph bacteria found in common places is believed to have...
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Drug-resistant Staph Bacteria Harder to Treat
A new study has found that germs causing
outbreaks in ordinary community settings are becoming...
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HealthGrades Annual Hospital Quality Study Released
Analyzing 17 procedures undergone at 5,000 US hospitals from
2005 to 2007, HealthGrades, a leader...
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Think Pink! This Is Not a Joke!
In the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month a lot of measures are taken in order to make people...
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Medicare Won’t Pay For Certain Hospital Errors Anymore
Medicare, the government insurance program for the elderly and disabled, will stop paying hospitals...
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The Mental Health Treatment Provision is Here
The long-sought bill that Sen. Pete Domenici initiated in order to require mental health insurance...
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Over The Counter Medicine For Kids, Not Healthy?
The FDA recently rejected pediatricians’ calls for the immediate
ban on over the counter cold...
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Computer-Aided Mammogram Reading as Effective as Human Detection
A recent study shows that by comparison, reading mammograms
by two different radiologists, versus...
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Medicare to Halt Hospital Payments for Medical Errors
On
Wednesday, a Medicare resolution that entails stopping hospital payments for
costs of medical...
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Flu Season Continues to Pose a Major Health Threat
Despite annual vaccinations, the U.S.
faces a burden of influenza that results in thousands of...
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It’s Time to Get Your Flu Shot, CDC Warns
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention reiterated its recommendation that all kids aged 6...
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Eleven Children Left At Omaha Hospitals Under Nebraska Law
Eleven children ages 1 to 17 were abandoned
at Omaha
hospitals on Wednesday under the state’s new...
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CDC Expands Recommendations for Influenza Shots
Wednesday,
health officials assembled in Washington D.C. endorsed the Centers for
Disease Control...
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9 Children Dumped At Neb. Hospital Under State’s Law
A father of nine children dropped them off at a hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, on Wednesday night,...
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Joint Commission Issues Alert on Blood Thinners Use
Trying to prevent more deaths due to anticoagulant
medication errors, the Joint Commission, an...
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China Orders to Go All-Out to Save Babies Sickened by Tainted Milk
China has ordered its hospitals to do everything necessary to protect the health and lives of...
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Colon Cancer, A Major Threat, Treatments Need Improvement
Colon cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death in the United States and the third most...
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U.S Attorney General Suffered Fainting Spell
MICHAEL Mukasey, the U.S. Attorney General, collapsed at the conclusion of one of his speeches,...
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Magnetic Field Therapy Said To Help Cure Body's Ills
Munich - Magnetic fields, which are common in our everyday lives but cannot be felt, are also...
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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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Google Flu Trends – A New Tool to Track Flu Outbreaks
Google wants to be more than a giant search engine; it wants to be closer to its users through its...
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Diarrhea Bacteria, Quite Common in U.S. Hospitals, Survey Shows
As many as 13 out of every 1,000 hospital
patients are infected with Clostridium difficile,or
C....
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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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Maternity Tourist Boom Brings Midwife Crisis to Hong Kong
Hong Kong - Like most things from the cradle to the grave in Hong Kong, it used to be simply a...
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Many U.S. Patients Dissatisfied with Their Pain Care
According to a national survey of patients’
experiences, patients in many U.S.
hospitals are not...
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CDC: Food Allergies Up 18 Percent among US Kids
Food allergies continue to be on the rise among US kids according to a report released...
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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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Radical Hindus Attack Christians over "Forced Conversions"
New Delhi - Communal tensions are on the rise in eastern India as radical Hindus in the state of...
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Nebraska Safe Haven Law Incurs Unexpected Number of Dropoffs
This year
in July, Nebraska lawmakers have managed, after much debate, to pass a safe
haven law...
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Neb. Lawmakers: “Safe-Haven” Law Needs Immediate Rectification
Trying to protect children from being hurt, Nebraska lawmakers made
the “safe-haven” law, which...
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Learn to Avoid Energy Drinks! It’s for Your Own Good
Scientists at the Johns
Hopkins Hospitals
University are requiring
warning labels for popular...
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Nebraska “Safe-Haven” Law Might Be Revised
This year,
in July, Nebraska lawmakers passed a “safe-haven” law allowing the
abandonment of...
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US Surgeon General Issues 'Call to Action' to Cut DVT and PE Numbers
In an attempt to reduce the number of people dying from deep
vein thrombosis and...
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Byetta Outruns Rival Januvia in Diabetes Trial
Eli Lilly and Co and Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc’s diabetes
drug Byetta proved better at reducing...
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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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New Rule Would Give Doctors the Chance to Say NO to Abortions
Federal health officials announced on Thursday plans to implement
a regulation, which would give...
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Bush Plan Would Protect Doctors Who Oppose Abortion
Federal health officials have proposed a new regulation that would offer protection to doctors,...
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Children’s Hospital Evacuated Due to Chemical Scare
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta was evacuated late Saturday
after a woman took her child to the...
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LA Hospitals Used Homeless People For Fraud
After raids on three hospitals in Los Angeles and Orange counties, two hospital executives were...
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Snooping in Celebrity Files – Something Common at UCLA Medical Center
It appears that celebrity comes itself with more than fame. It
brings paparazzi trouble, which...
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Kate Hudson And Lance Armstrong Break Up During The Weekend
Lance Armstrong and Kate Hudson proved once again that
nothing is what it seems. After three...
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Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Who’s The Most Elegant Of Them All?
Taking the mirror’s role, Vanity Fair answered: Michelle
Obama! The wife of the Democratic...
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Amy Winehouse Taken To Emergency Room Monday, Released Tuesday
Amy Winehouse is in the public eye once more over health
concerns, after being taken by ambulance...
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Clinton Says NO to Newly-Proposed Abortion Definition
On Friday, Sen. Hillary Clinton came down rather hard on a
plan put together by the Bush...
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Father Of Modern Cardiovascular Surgery Dr. DeBakey Dies
The medical world has lost a great man on Friday night in the person of Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, a...
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Video: Dying Woman Totally Ignored by Brooklyn Hospital Staff
Kings
County Hospital
Center knocked everybody
down when a surveillance tape, showing a dying...
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Pilot and Passenger Safe after Helicopter’s Crash
The names of the pilot and passenger aboard the medical
helicopter that crashed last Thursday on...
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