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Insurers Post Big Profits, Cut Coverage, New Report Says
By Nadja Popovich The nation's five biggest insurance companies made $12 billion in profits last year, but dropped 2.7 million people from their roles, according to a report released today by Health Care For American Now, a health reform advocacy...
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Fri, Feb 12 2010 1:38 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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Hong Kong Says Skip Worm Diet
By Scott Hensley Here's a weight-loss idea you shouldn't try at home--or anywhere else--swallowing a bunch of parasitic worms. A CDC lab technician holds a mass of Ascaris lumbricoides worms in a 2007 picture. (James Gathany/CDC) A CDC lab technician...
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Thu, Feb 11 2010 8:52 AM
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A Little Lighter
WellPoint Goes On Offense To Defend Insurance Rates
By Joanne Silberner Giant health insurer WellPoint is putting up its dukes up in defense of higher premiums at its California subsidiary, Anthem Blue Cross. For those new to the fight, last week Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asked...
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Thu, Feb 18 2010 1:41 PM
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A Permanent Medicare Pay Fix For Doctors? Maybe Next Year
By Andrew Villegas For years Congress has played a game of cat and mouse when it comes to figuring out how much Medicare should pay doctors. Congress isn't likely to fix a controversial formula for figuring out how much Medicare pays doctors anytime...
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Mon, Feb 01 2010 1:40 PM
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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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Book-Writing Man In Coma Fails Communication Test
Rom Houben and his mother Josephine Nicolaas Houben are pictured at a Belgian hospital in Nov. 2009. (Matt Slocum/AP) By Scott Hensley A few months back the world was gripped by reports that a Belgian man initially thought to be in a vegetative state...
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Wed, Feb 17 2010 11:29 AM
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As Government's Share Of Health Spending Rises, U.S. Edges Closer To Norm
By Christopher Weaver In the next year or two, government will become the majority shareholder in America's "capitalistic" health care system, paying for more than 50 percent of all health costs, a new report by federal officials suggests...
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Thu, Feb 04 2010 12:02 PM
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Seniors, Take A Moment... For Vaccines
By Patti Neighmond You think vaccines are just for kids? Think again. T.C. Weber gets a swine flu shot in New York last year. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) T.C. Weber gets a swine flu shot in New York last year. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) T.C. Weber...
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Fri, Feb 05 2010 8:35 AM
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Cholesterol Drugs Raise Diabetes Risk, But Not Enough To Stop Taking Them
By Scott Hensley If you're taking a cholesterol-fighting drug (and these days who isn't?), then you might be surprised to find out the commonly prescribed medicines can raise the odds you'll get diabetes. But don't throw your Lipitor or...
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Wed, Feb 17 2010 5:55 AM
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Heart disease
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Diabetes
Nation's Health Spending Climbs To Record High
By Scott Hensley Health care overhaul may be dead, but the growth in the nation's spending on health keeps on rolling. Estimates just out from the government show that health spending climbed 1.1 percentage points to account for 17.3 percent of GDP...
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Thu, Feb 04 2010 5:47 AM
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Health Overhaul
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Costs
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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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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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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Autism
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Vaccines
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Children
NIH Pushes For Radiation Reporting By Scanner Makers
By Scott Hensley If you get a bunch of tests and medicines in the hospital, the details on the results and doses will be dutifully recorded in your medical file. An X-ray shows tumors in the bones of a patient. ( Dr Ahmed Haroun/Wikimedia Commons) An...
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Mon, Feb 01 2010 8:12 AM
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