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Getting Medical Aid To Haiti Takes Patience
By Joanne Silberner HHS Regional Emergency Coordinator Tom Bowman makes a last call out before wheels up in Atlanta. (John W. Poole/NPR) Here it is Friday afternoon, and I've been on my way to Haiti from Atlanta for more than 24 hours. The trip so...
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Fri, Jan 15 2010 1:05 PM
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Haitian Quake Destroys Hospitals, Hampering Care
By Scott Hensley When a country as impoverished as Haiti is struck with a major earthquake, an already bleak health situation plunges deeper into the abyss. The humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders, long active in the country, just reported on the...
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Wed, Jan 13 2010 8:24 AM
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Chamber Of Commerce Concedes Health Overhaul Looks Inevitable
By Phil Galewitz Despite unleashing a new round of TV spots last week that blasts congressional Democrats' health overhaul, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce acknowledged at a media briefing Tuesday that the fight is just about over. (Alex Wong/Getty Images...
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Tue, Jan 12 2010 2:10 PM
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Deal On Cadillac Tax Marks Beginning Of Endgame For Health Overhaul
By Julie Rovner The Senate's not yet formally back from its holiday break, but already House and Senate negotiators have all but taken up residence in the West Wing of the White House to hammer out a final version of a health overhaul bill. Negotiators...
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Thu, Jan 14 2010 10:45 AM
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FDA Voices 'Some Concern' Over BPA Risks
By Nell Greenfieldboyce The Food and Drug Administration has finally gotten around to telling us about its current thinking on BPA, the widely used plastic additive found in many food containers, including some baby bottles and hard plastic cups. FDA's...
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Fri, Jan 15 2010 2:25 PM
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For Kids With High Cholesterol, Change Diet, Exercise Before Drugs
By Nadja Popovich If you had any doubt that the obesity epidemic among young people presents a real health challenge, wrap you mind around this: 20 percent of teenagers have high cholesterol. Dietary changes, such as eating more fruits and vegetables...
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Fri, Jan 22 2010 9:58 AM
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Congress To Broker Health Overhaul Informally
By Julie Rovner If you weren't completely asleep during high school civics, you might remember that after the House and Senate each pass different bills on the same subject, say health overhaul just for fun, they reconcile them in something called...
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Mon, Jan 04 2010 1:54 PM
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Harvard Hospitals Limit Industry Pay To Doctors
By Scott Hensley Partners HealthCare, the Boston hospital system that includes some of Harvard Medical School's most prominent teaching institutions, is turning over a new leaf on industry's financial influence over doctors. Starting this year...
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Mon, Jan 04 2010 5:55 AM
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Study: Doctors Reduce Working Hours As Medical Malpractice Risk Rises
By Kevin Whitelaw The debate over steep medical malpractice awards has long centered on claims that they are driving up the cost of health care, but it turns out that the prospect of big payouts is actually causing doctors to reduce their workload. On...
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Thu, Jan 28 2010 1:01 PM
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EPA Review Of Toxic Chemicals: Slow, Often Secret
By Scott Hensley Debates rage almost daily on the health risks from common chemicals. And the government agencies that are supposed to settle those arguments can be awfully slow in doing so. What's in that beaker? (iStockphoto.com) What's in that...
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Mon, Jan 04 2010 9:56 AM
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Steroids May Not Have Helped McGwire Fight Injuries
By Scott Hensley McGwire takes batting practice before the 1990 All-Star Game (left) and watches his 58th home run of the 1998 season, against the Florida Marlins. (right). (Steve Goldstein/Getty Images;Alan Diaz/AP) Now we now for sure that baseball...
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Tue, Jan 12 2010 11:40 AM
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Take A Peek Behind FDA's Velvet Curtain
By Joanne Silberner Do you know what the Deputy Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration looks like? Wondering about the organizational chart for the FDA's biologics center? Maybe you're just wondering what the heck is a medical device...
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Tue, Jan 12 2010 2:39 PM
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Pfizer Giving Stanford $3 Million Grant For Improving Doctors' Training
By Scott Hensley A leading medical school that said a few years ago it wouldn't take industry money to fund specific continuing education courses for doctors and a big drugmaker that said it would no longer give money to for-profit education companies...
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Mon, Jan 11 2010 8:11 AM
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Brown Blame Game Takes Washington By Storm
By Christopher Weaver It should come as no surprise, we suppose, that the varied agendas of politicos, pundits, and activists color their views on who's to blame for Scott Brown's surprise win in Massachusetts. President Obama concedes health...
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Fri, Jan 22 2010 1:58 PM
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Bacteria Found In Toll House Dough, But None Leaves Factory
By Nadja Popovich Just as last summer's contamination of Nestle Toll House cookie dough by a dangerous strain of E. coli bacteria had just about faded into history, the company said there were problems with a recent batch. Some nasty bacteria showed...
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Thu, Jan 14 2010 12:24 PM
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