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Senators Look To Limit Drug Makers Use Of Prescription Data
By Maggie Mertens When you fill a doctor's prescription, the information about it, minus your personal details, gets bought by a company that then probably sells it to drug makers. They use the data to figure out how to get individual doctors to prescribe...
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Fri, Dec 11 2009 12:40 PM
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Health Overhaul 'Deal' Still Half-Baked
By April Fulton If you were counting on last week's "deal" among 10 senators on health care to propel an overhaul through the Senate by Christmas, you might want to hedge your bets a bit. This cake's only half-baked. The Senate health...
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Mon, Dec 14 2009 10:33 AM
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Glaxo Discloses Doctor Payments For First Time
By Scott Hensley All the pressure on drug makers to fess up publicly about the money they pay doctors is, er, paying off. There's a lot more light on the money doctors get from drug companies these days. (iStockphoto.com) --> There's a lot...
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Tue, Dec 15 2009 11:25 AM
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Worries About Doctor Shortages Deepen As Overhaul Looms
By Scott Hensley Let's just say for the sake of discussion that health overhaul does pass. A bunch more folks get insurance, maybe 31 million eventually. Then some of those people, maybe a lot of them, want to see the doctor more. Who exactly is going...
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Wed, Dec 16 2009 8:54 AM
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'Is that So?' Looks At Taxes and Health Overhaul
By Julie Rovner Today we're bringing you a web-extra edition of our popular fact-checking series, "Is That So?" Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has a tax bone to pick. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) --> Topic...
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Thu, Dec 17 2009 7:30 AM
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Sock Puppet Lieberman Wants A Pony For Health Vote
By Scott Hensley Don't read our posting of this video from MoveOn.org, a liberal advocacy group, as an endorsement of anything but humor. Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman grabbed the spotlight early in the week by saying he couldn't vote for a health...
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Fri, Dec 18 2009 8:58 AM
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Sanofi Leads Deal Frenzy With Chattem Purchase
By Scott Hensley The snow hasn't stopped pharmaceutical dealmakers from last-minute shopping. No patent worries a little lotion can't ease. (Chattem) Sanofi-Aventis has agreed to pay $1.9 billion for Chattem, a seller of over-the-counter remedies...
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Mon, Dec 21 2009 8:30 AM
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The Information Edge And Beating A Stroke
By Richard Knox Our coverage on beating a stroke last week, about a Massachusetts woman's successful treatment with a clot-busting drug called t-PA, got a tremendous response, including this message from Erin Hastings of San Francisco: Tanya Gill...
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Mon, Dec 21 2009 1:01 PM
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Your Kid's Brain On Santa Claus
By Maggie Mertens Spoiler Alert: We're not sure how many 5-year-olds are fans of Shots, but if you're impatiently waiting for a jolly old man dressed in red to drop off your Christmas presents, please stop reading now. Shh...Santa's not real...
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Tue, Dec 22 2009 12:12 PM
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GOP Argues Insurance Mandate Violates Constitution
By Scott Hensley Unable to win the votes on health overhaul, Republicans are eyeing a battle in the courts. Their strategy? Have the overhaul's requirement that everyone in the country have health insurance declared unconstitutional. If uninsured...
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Wed, Dec 23 2009 5:56 AM
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Obama Says History Will Be Made On Health Care
By Scott Hensley On the eve of a Senate vote that seems all but certain to deliver a historic victory on health overhaul to Democrats, President Obama defended the trade-offs made to get legislation this far and the way it will be financed. Obama talks...
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Wed, Dec 23 2009 1:14 PM
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Gawande Looks To Barnyard For Health Cost Controls
By Christopher Weaver What do farming and medicine have in common? At one time or another both sucked vast resources from the American economy, led to "unmanageably costly sectors," and posed problems that appeared intractable, writes Dr. Atul...
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Mon, Dec 07 2009 11:10 AM
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Decline In Colorectal Cancer Rates Leads Overall Drop
By Scott Hensley In the wake of recent recommendations for less testing to find *** and cervical cancer, you might be wondering where screening is paying off the most. The answer: colorectal cancer. The latest annual report on the state of cancer in the...
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Tue, Dec 08 2009 6:32 AM
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Pfizer Piles Into Biotech With Deal For Gaucher's Drug
By Scott Hensley Lipitor, Celebrex and Zoloft are some of the pills taken daily by millions of people that helped make Pfizer the world's largest drugmaker. But the company's plans for the future now include a big dose of pricey biotech medicines...
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Tue, Dec 01 2009 6:06 AM
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Senate Democrats' First Amendment To Health Overhaul Would Protect Mammography
By Christopher Weaver The first change offered by Senate Democrats to their health overhaul bill appears crafted in part to blunt criticism of government rationing sparked by recent guidelines that recommend women get routine mammograms starting at 50...
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Tue, Dec 01 2009 1:41 PM
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