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Is Bird Flu Back, Or Did It Never Go Away?
By Jaclyn Schiff Just as your worries have faded about swine flu, today at the International Ministerial Conference on Animal and Pandemic Influenza in Hanoi, Vietnam, an infectious diseases expert is raising red flags about the ongoing presence of H5N1...
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Mon, Apr 19 2010 12:39 PM
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Big Health Insurers Have A Gift For College Grads
By Julie Rovner This year's crop of college graduates may have trouble finding a job, given the state of the economy. But some of them will have a much easier time keeping health insurance while they look. Here's to a new job -- or at least health...
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Mon, Apr 19 2010 10:31 AM
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Early Research Points To Improved Lung Cancer Care
By Scott Hensley When a doctor diagnoses cancer, the labels for the disease are awfully broad, a fact that hinders treatment. Cancer, fundamentally, is a disease marked by specific changes in the genetic code of a person's cancerous cells. So one...
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Mon, Apr 19 2010 7:01 AM
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Obama Memo Pushes Hospitals To Honor Patients' Choices
By Scott Hensley By ordering hospitals that take Medicare or Medicaid money to allow patients to be visited and helped by whomever they want, President Obama was taking a shot at hospitals that have resisted the wishes often recorded in advance directives...
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Fri, Apr 16 2010 3:29 PM
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Robot Or Not, Intense Therapy Best For Stroke Patients
By Richard Knox It seems like a good idea -- make a robot that can put stroke patients through their physical therapy paces. After all, a robot is good at repetitive movements, it doesn't get tired, and you don't have to give it health insurance...
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Fri, Apr 16 2010 2:45 PM
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Colorado Rep. Markey, Tea Party Target, Explains Health Vote
By Peggy Girshman Tea Partiers did more than hold Tax Day rallies yesterday. They also named their "heroes and targets." Rep. Markey's district is shaping up as a health battleground. (Wikimedia Commons) Depressed adults have an extra hard...
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Fri, Apr 16 2010 11:55 AM
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Heading To Surgery? Time To Take Stock Of Your Health
By Scott Hensley If you've ever needed an anesthesiologist, chances are you don't remember him or her. That's part of the deal, right? Good health makes for lower risks during surgery. (iStockphoto.com) Good health makes for lower risks during...
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Fri, Apr 16 2010 9:58 AM
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Illnesses Carried By Food Remain A Problem
By Scott Hensley Oh, dear. Most illnesses caused by bacteria and parasites in food are just as big a problem now as they were in 2004. E. coli loves growing in vats of ground beef. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/) -->...
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Fri, Apr 16 2010 7:11 AM
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Today Brings Taxes And A Medicare Pay Cut For Doctors
By Julie Rovner For most people, today is unpleasant enough as the day tax returns are due. For doctors who take care of Medicare patients, it's doubly bad. A 21 percent pay cut that no one ever intended to kick in will actually be implemented. It's...
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Thu, Apr 15 2010 3:01 PM
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Experts Say Cancer Research Program Faces Big Trouble
By Richard Knox For more than 50 years, most of what doctors know about which cancer treatments work and which ones don't has come out of a big federally funded network of far-flung academic researchers known obscurely as the Cooperative Group Program...
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Thu, Apr 15 2010 2:20 PM
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Peer Pressure And Malpractice Fears Fuel Extra Tests
By Nadja Popovich Fear about being sued for malpractice is, as you might expect, one of the main reasons doctors would order heart testing for patients, even if they aren't so sure the tests are absolutely necessary. Time for a test? (iStockphoto...
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Thu, Apr 15 2010 1:05 PM
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Ash Poses More Risk For Animals Than Humans
By Nadja Popovich Unless you're a high-flying bird, you probably don't have to worry too much about health problems from the eruption of a volcano in Iceland that has grounded flights in Britain and several Nordic countries. Sure, a cloud of ash...
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Thu, Apr 15 2010 10:25 AM
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Waxman Cancels Hearing To Grill Companies On Tax Hit From Overhaul
By Scott Hensley Arcane accounting rules don't usually make for Congressional fireworks. But we were really looking forward to a scheduled clash next week between Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and a bunch of companies that said the new health law is going...
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Thu, Apr 15 2010 7:14 AM
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Depressed People Smoke More, Need Help Quitting
By April Fulton People with depression face plenty of challenges when it comes to their physical health, including eating right and getting enough exercise. Now researchers combing through a big database on people's health habits have found depressed...
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Wed, Apr 14 2010 1:56 PM
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Schistosomiasis: An Unwelcome Adventure
By Joanne Silberner Adrenaline-addicted travelers who love running rapids have another risk to contend with in some exotic locales -- schistosomiasis. Kayakers beware of these little buggers: Schistosoma mansoni. (Shirley Maddison/CDC) (Shirley Maddison...
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Wed, Apr 14 2010 10:58 AM
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