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Incentive To Treat Bladder Cancer In Doctors' Offices Raised Medicare Costs
By Scott Hensley From the annals of bright health care ideas that have unintended consequences comes a tale of what happens when Medicare pays doctors more to do bladder cancer surgery in their offices. (Wikimedia Commons) http://media.npr.org/assets...
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Mon, Feb 08 2010 9:34 AM
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Now A Drug For People With Normal Cholesterol
By Scott Hensley The era of blockbuster medicines has been defined by drugs that help the worried well stave off illness. How low can your heart risk go? (iStockphoto.com) http://media.npr.org/assets/blogs/health/images/2010/02/limbo_sq.jpg?s=12"...
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Tue, Feb 09 2010 9:28 AM
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Heart disease
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Medicare Pay Fix For Doctors Hitches Ride On Jobs Bill
By Julie Rovner Snowstorm or not, the Senate is plowing ahead with legislation that is supposed to create new jobs with tax breaks for employers. One provision is clearly intended to help preserve a few very important jobs -- those of senators up for...
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Wed, Feb 10 2010 5:40 AM
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Doctors
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GOP Stalwarts' Top 10 List For Health Overhaul
By Christopher Weaver Yesterday we featured some core GOP health care ideas that have been refined during the past couple of decades by conservative health wonks such as John Goodman, of the Texas-based National Center for Policy Analysis. Today, you...
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Wed, Feb 10 2010 1:01 PM
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Health Overhaul
Cast Your Vote On New Wrapper For New York's Condom
By Scott Hensley We miss New York, trendsetter in fashion and public health. Next stop? (NYC Dept. of Health.) Subway enters tunnel on condom wrapper. (NYC Dept. of Health.) --> After we moved to Washington last year, we realized just how much we'd...
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Thu, Feb 11 2010 1:19 PM
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On Both Coasts, States Face Off With Rising Health Costs
By Maggie Mertens Washington might have temporarily put the brakes on the health overhaul, but the problems the health system faces aren't going away. Look, for instance, at the recent announcement by Anthem Blue Cross in California of a premium increase...
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Fri, Feb 12 2010 10:12 AM
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Women Underestimate Their Risk Of Heart Disease
By Nadja Popovich More than half of American women don't know that heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women in this country, despite plenty of work to boost awareness. Only a little more than half of women surveyed said they would call 911 if they...
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Tue, Feb 16 2010 2:03 PM
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Women's health
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Tweet This: CDC Offers 9 Pages Of Twitter Advice
By Scott Hensley Since hopping on the Twitter train a while back, we can hardly imagine living without it. (Twitter) We follow smart folks and learn about cool stuff in a hurry. When we have something to tell people, we can pump out a tweet in a matter...
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Mon, Feb 01 2010 12:03 PM
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Lancet Renounces Study Linking Autism And Vaccines
By Scott Hensley It took 12 years, but the medical journal the Lancet has retracted once and for all a controversial paper that drew a link between vaccines and autism and helped fuel a backlash against immunization of children. A 1998 Lancet paper reported...
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Tue, Feb 02 2010 9:25 AM
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Kellogg Slapped For Contamination At Eggo Waffle Factory
By Nadja Popovich You might want to leggo that Eggo. Eggo Buttermilk Waffles tested positive for Listeria at a Kellogg factory in Atlanta last year. (iStockphoto.com) Eggo Buttermilk Waffles tested positive for Listeria at a Kellogg factory in Atlanta...
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Wed, Feb 17 2010 1:02 PM
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Glaxo Pulling Some Poligrip From Market Over Zinc Risk
By Scott Hensley Wearing dentures isn't anybody's idea of fun. But nobody expects that the glue used to hold the darn things in place could lead to nerve damage. Glaxo warned about health risks from these three formulas of Poligrip. (GSK) Glaxo...
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Thu, Feb 18 2010 11:45 AM
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Come On, Get Happy. It May Help Your Heart
By Nadja Popovich Happy people may have even more to smile about. It turns out that being positive and enthusiastic could lower your risk of heart disease. Something to smile about: people with sunnier dispositions were found to have a lower risk of heart...
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Fri, Feb 19 2010 9:33 AM
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President Lays Out Health Overhaul Proposal
By Scott Hensley If you're looking for surprises in Team Obama's last-ditch proposal to restart health overhaul, you'll be disappointed. It's mostly a rewarmed version of the Senate bill, with a few tweaks. Time for a long pass to restart...
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Mon, Feb 22 2010 7:51 AM
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Obama's Budget Bypasses Big Health Cuts
By Nadja Popovich Science and health departments must be breathing a collective sigh of relief after President Obama's unveiling of the proposed 2011 budget yesterday, at least for now. President Obama presented his 2011 budget proposal yesterday...
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Tue, Feb 02 2010 1:31 PM
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Vaccine Scare Shows How Emotions Can Trump Facts
By Nadja Popovich Yesterday, the medical journal the Lancet retracted a 12-year-old paper by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, which helped fan a scare about vaccines and autism. The idea that vaccines could make kids sick elicits a very emotional response in many...
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Wed, Feb 03 2010 12:25 PM
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