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Drug Rep Repeats Whistleblower Role For Seroquel
By Scott Hensley Even Big Pharma can be a small world. Eli Lilly and AstraZeneca have a surprising connection that makes the drug industry look like a small world. (iStockphoto.com) Eli Lilly and AstraZeneca have a surprising connection. (iStockphoto...
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Wed, Apr 28 2010 9:42 AM
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Obesity Gene Makes Bodies Larger, Brains Smaller
By Jon Hamilton When people inherit a common variant of a gene called FTO, they tend to put on a few extra pounds and are at higher risk of becoming obese. A genetic double-whammy could raise your risk for obesity and losing mental function as you age...
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Mon, Apr 19 2010 3:01 PM
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All Politics Is Local, And Nothing's More Local Than Health
By Andrew Villegas If you thought the passage of the new health law might somehow knock health issues off the political agenda, don't hold your breath. Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak, shown at a House hearing in February, won't run for reelection...
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Fri, Apr 09 2010 9:33 AM
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Canada Has It Both Ways On International Abortion Funding
By Jaclyn Schiff A meeting of development ministers representing the G8 countries concluded Wednesday without directly addressing a controversy over Canada's unwillingness to fund abortion as part of aid to improve maternal and child health in the...
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Thu, Apr 29 2010 7:04 AM
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FDA Looks High And Low For Consumer Reps
By Joanne Silberner The Food and Drug Administration wants you. Well, maybe you. The agency has put a call out for consumer representatives to serve on its advisory committees. The panels of experts help the agency figure out whether to approve a drug...
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Wed, Apr 07 2010 9:57 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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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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Swine Flu Vaccine Ticks Toward Expiration
By Scott Hensley If you're among the million of Americans who didn't get immunized against swine flu, there's still some vaccine with your name on it. But don't wait too long. Tens of millions of doses of the government-purchased vaccine...
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Thu, Apr 01 2010 6:58 AM
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FAA Will Allow Pilots To Take Antidepressants
The FAA has lifted a ban on antidepressant use by pilots. (Stephen Brashear/Getty Images) The FAA has lifted a ban on antidepressant use by pilots. (Stephen Brashear/Getty Images) The FAA has lifted a ban on antidepressant use by pilots. (Stephen Brashear...
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Fri, Apr 02 2010 2:14 PM
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St. Vincent's, Last Catholic Hospital in NYC, To Close
An injured firefighter is brought into the emergency room at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan, Sept. 13, 2001. (Stephen Chernin/AP) An injured firefighter is brought into the emergency room at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan, Sept. 13,...
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Wed, Apr 07 2010 6:58 AM
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Poll Finds More ConfusionThan Anger Over New Health Law
Garrett Lear of new Hampshire, addressing the minority of Americans angry about the health law at a Washington rally last week. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP) Garrett Lear of new Hampshire, addressing the minority of Americans angry about the health law at a Washington...
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Thu, Apr 22 2010 7:15 AM
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Health Insurance Rate-Hike Ruling Could Echo Outside Maine
By Christopher Weaver Can you set a reasonable profit for a health insurer? A state judge says the state insurance regulator sure can. A Maine judge upheld a state regulator's rejection of an insurer's premium-rate hike, which would have raised...
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Fri, Apr 23 2010 12:25 PM
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Hybrid Cars' Silence Just One Factor In High Pedestrian Death Rate
Hybrid vehicles are twice as likely to kill pedestrians as their conventional cousins, but why? (Istockphoto.com) Hybrid vehicles are twice as likely to kill pedestrians as their conventional cousins, but why? (Istockphoto.com) --> Hybrid vehicles...
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Mon, Apr 19 2010 3:20 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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