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Stomach Flu Hits Caribbean Cruise Ship
By Nadja Popovich For those of us stuck in the wintry Northeast, a Caribbean cruise seems pretty appealing. But we have to admit the idea was a whole lot more enticing before we heard about a nasty viral outbreak that struck hundreds of passengers this...
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Fri, Feb 26 2010 2:20 PM
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Hospitals and Doctors Drove Up California Health Costs
By Christopher Weaver Californians outraged over insurance rate hikes may have some new targets. (iStockphoto.com) A study just out may direct some of their ire toward doctors and hospitals. The findings, published in Health Affairs, conclude that the...
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Fri, Feb 26 2010 1:39 PM
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If An Embargo Breaks In the Woods, Does Anybody Hear It Fall?
By Scott Hensley Embargoes. If you're a science or medical writer, you can't live with 'em and can't live without 'em. The bigger the embargo, the harder it falls. Does the public care? (iStockphoto.com) The bigger the embargo, the...
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Fri, Feb 26 2010 12:35 PM
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America: Land Of Cheeseheads And Chicken Lovers
By Allison Aubrey Do you want cheese with that? Probably. Cheesy pizza is everywhere. (iStockphoto.com) (iStockphoto.com) --> The Agriculture Department's regular look at American food trends shows we've become a nation of cheeseheads and chicken...
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Fri, Feb 26 2010 8:58 AM
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Makers Of CT Scanners Promise Radiation Safeguards
By Scott Hensley With President Obama and congressional leaders hashing out health overhaul on TV Thursday, you might have missed a pledge by the makers of CT scanner to do a better job on protecting patients from radiation risks. Mind the dose. (iStockphoto...
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Fri, Feb 26 2010 5:58 AM
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Live-Blog: Opening Of Bipartisan Health Conference
By Scott Hensley Health overhaul has come to this: a high-level meeting between Democrats and Republicans open to TV cameras and radio microphones. We plan to cover the opening statements in this post. Later in the day we expect to post a few more times...
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Thu, Feb 25 2010 6:50 AM
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Sebelius Invites Insurance CEOs For A Chat About Rates
By Scott Hensley There's another Washington health summit in the works that we imagine none of the invitees really wants to attend. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has asked the CEOs of some of the country's biggest insurers...
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Thu, Feb 25 2010 5:50 AM
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Health Care Rewind: Many In GOP Supported Overhaul Before
By Maggie Mertens If President Barack Obama is hoping for Republicans to show up to the health care summit tomorrow ready to work in a bipartisan manner, with a proposal that expands coverage and agrees on several fundamental proponents of overhaul, he...
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Wed, Feb 24 2010 2:01 PM
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A Spice Too Far In Salsa: Pesticide
By Nadja Popovich It's one thing to fall ill after someone leaves the potato salad out a little too long by mistake. It's quite another to get sick as a dog after somebody laces the salsa at the local Mexican restaurant with a potent pesticide...
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Wed, Feb 24 2010 12:34 PM
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Health Negotiators Could Use A Ref
By Stephanie Stapleton Tomorrow is the big day for the White House's health care summit. Will it make a difference? Time to blow the whistle on health overhaul? (iStockphoto.com) Time to blow the whistle on health overhaul? (iStockphoto.com) Time...
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Wed, Feb 24 2010 11:14 AM
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*** Cheney And The Modern Heart Attack
By Richard Knox *** Cheney went home from the hospital Wednesday, three days after suffering his fifth heart attack. The 69-year-old former vice president "will resume his normal schedule soon," a spokesman says. Former Vice President *** Cheney...
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Wed, Feb 24 2010 9:23 AM
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WellPoint Pushes Ahead On Controversial Rate Hikes
By Scott Hensley Health insurer WellPoint is being hammered on both coasts for raising premiums on health plans. But the insurance giant shows no signs of backing down. Executives with the insurance giant's Anthem Blue Cross subsidiary in California...
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Wed, Feb 24 2010 6:18 AM
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Patient Confidentiality Can Walk Out The Door With Laptops
By Nadja Popovich If there's one thing you don't want people snooping on, we'd guess it's your medical records. But with more and more files going electronic, the potential for breaches keeps growing. Hospitals, insurance companies, doctors...
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Tue, Feb 23 2010 2:23 PM
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Hospital Infections: Deadly, Costly, And Potentially Avoidable
By Richard Knox Each year nearly 300,000 U.S. patients get serious cases of pneumonia and sepsis -- bloodstream infections -- during their hospital stays. Almost 50,000 of them die. Pneumonia and sepsis make up a large fraction of hospital-acquired infections...
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Tue, Feb 23 2010 11:28 AM
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Can Doctors Tell Patients No? It's Not Easy
By Scott Hensley Between the Internet and drug ads, patients these days have some pretty firm ideas about what they want to get out of a visit with the doctor. Around 10 percent of the time patients ask doctors for medicine, and the docs usually go along...
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Tue, Feb 23 2010 8:58 AM
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