Thursday, March 31, 2011

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Oral arguments set in federal health care lawsuit | Post on Politics
By Dara Kam
A federal appeals court in Atlanta has set June 8 for oral arguments in the the federal health care lawsuit but denied Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi's.
Post on Politics - http://www.postonpolitics.com/
How social media will change mental health care
By Kevin
And while many voices in our professional communities are wary about social media, I see positive opportunities at every turn.
KevinMD.com - http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/
En banc denied on health care : SCOTUSblog
By Lyle Denniston
The Eleventh Circuit Court refused on Thursday to put before the full ten-judge Court the broad challenge by a group of states to the new federal health care law, but did grant a fairly prompt hearing before a three-judge panel. ...
SCOTUSblog - http://www.scotusblog.com/
MN Health Officials Worried Over Possible Measles Outbreak « CBS ...
By cepremo
Currently, the Minnesota Department of Health says there are 14 confirmed cases of measles in Minnesota, but health care professionals worry that more cases could come and history could repeat itself.
CBS Minnesota - http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/
Say Anything » Obama Health Secretary: Health Outcomes In America ...
By Rob Port
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says patient outcomes in the United States are like those in "a developing country" – and that they'll stay that way if the health care reform law is repealed. ...
Say Anything - http://sayanythingblog.com/
Wisconsin Officials Say Radiation Level Not Health Risk - Health ...
MADISON, Wis. -- Wisconsin health officials said trace amounts of radiation found in the state that likely came from a damaged nuclear reactor in Japan pose no health risks. Thursday, March 31, 2011.
Channel3000.com - Health - http://www.channel3000.com/health/
Health fair at Rosemary Anderson High School in North Portland ...
By Melissa Navas, The Oregonian
The free event is from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the North Portland school. Health care professionals, community organizers, domestic violence advocates and instructors from Street Yoga Project will lead sessions.
Portland News - http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/
Bad times for health care, good times for Pennsylvania health ...
By DAVID WENNER, The Patriot-News
Highmark reported a profit of $463 million, up from $188 million in 2010.
Breaking Midstate News with The... - http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/
Small Business Health Insurance Problem | WITTING NEWS
By admin
Through the debate on reforming health insurance for small businesses, an important piece of information was missing: Policymakers had little.
WITTING NEWS - http://wittingnews.com/
Health Watch: Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness DayCBS Philly
By Ben Bowens
It's a day to raise awareness about a condition that many of us have never even heard of, but is as common as spina bifida and cystic fibrosis. Health Reporter Stephanie Stahl is On Your Side with the story of a little girl who is ...
CBS Philly - http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/
Impact of Health Insurance Quotes in Florida ...
By kuwait
Health insurance quotes are essential to enhance the sale of health insurance policies in Florida. Why so? Generally a quote provides information to consumers about the cost and effectiveness of various plans available in Florida with a ...
autoinsurancepaylittle.com - http://autoinsurancepaylittle.com/
Daily Kos: California Single Payer Health Care Bill to Get Senate ...
By rss@dailykos.com (jpmassar)
I am writing to express my strong support for single payer, universal health care and for SB 810 (Leno), the California Universal Health Care Act. I urge your support for this important legislation and request that you work hard to ...
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FDA advisors recommend more study of food dyes
Los Angeles Times
There's no clear sign that artificial food dyes cause hyperactivity in children, but more research is warranted, an FDA advisory panel says. Examples of foods with artificial coloring include Jell-O, above, Skittles, M&M's, Mountain Dew and Fruit Loops ...
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Women's lung cancer rate falls
Tampabay.com
AP For the first time, women's death rates from lung cancer are dropping. The decline is small, just less than 1 percent a year. And lung cancer remains the nation's, and the world's, leading cancer killer. But the long-anticipated drop, ...
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Medicare Agrees to Cover Expensive Prostate Cancer Treatment
KGO-AM
Creatas Images/Thinkstock(BALTIMORE) -- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that Medicare will pay for Provenge, an immunotherapy for prostate cancer. In a proposed decision memo, the agency said, "The evidence is adequate to ...
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Turkeys slaughtered after avian flu found at Missouri farm
Kansas City Star
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. | Thousands of young turkeys at a southwest Missouri poultry farm will be slaughtered to prevent the spread of avian flu. The farm in Polk County raises turkeys for Cargill, which says up to 15000 infected young birds would be killed ...
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Alabama: Lawsuit Blames Intravenous Nutrient for Death
New York Times
By AP An Alabama woman filed a lawsuit Thursday placing blame for the death of her mother on an outbreak that health officials say was linked to tainted intravenous feeding fluid that caused infections at six hospitals in 19 patients, 9 of whom died. ...
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Federal plan would streamline Medicare
USA Today
By Kelly Kennedy, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services proposed new regulations Thursday it hopes will reduce Medicare costs and improve care by focusing funds on prevention and quality, rather than the number of times a patient sees a ...
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Water Walking Balls Called Deadly
About.com: Health
By Wendy Bumgardner, About.com Guide March 31, 2011 The US Consumer Products Safety Commission is sounding an alarm about water waking balls. These are large, clear airtight plastic balls. You enter them via a zipper, it gets zipped up and now you are ...
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Automatic faucets germier than the old-fashioned kind, study shows
msnbc.com
By Melissa Dahl Sorry, germaphobes: Those hands-free, automatic faucets that seem so clean and germ-free might actually be housing more bacteria than the old-fashioned, manual kind, according to a new Johns Hopkins University study. ...
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Arizona gov. proposes restoring transplant funding
San Jose Mercury News
By PAUL DAVENPORT AP PHOENIX—Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has proposed that the state restore Medicaid coverage for transplant patients—which was reduced amid much controversy last fall. Brewer announced the change Thursday as part of a major revamp of the ...
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Prostate screening doesn't save lives: study
ABC Online
By medical reporter Sophie Scott A large study has found that screening men for prostate cancer does not significantly reduce deaths and can lead to over-treatment. The findings of the 20-year study have been published in the British Medical Journal. ...
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Health clinic investigating possible leak of porn actors' personal information
Los Angeles Times
Officials at a San Fernando Valley-based health clinic that caters to the porn industry say they are investigating allegations that patient information was leaked to a website. Pornwikileaks.com posted the names, birth dates and stage names of more ...
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Woman Mauled by Chimp to Get Face, Hand Transplant
Fox News
AP NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Charla Nash, the Connecticut woman who was viciously attacked by a chimpanzee two years ago, was deemed eligible last month for a face and hand transplant and is currently waiting for a donor. Nash can't see, touch or smell and ...
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US Senate Plans April 5 Vote to Repeal Tax Compliance Rule
Bloomberg
By Steven Sloan and Richard Rubin - Fri Apr 01 02:06:05 GMT 2011 The US Senate plans an April 5 vote on repealing a tax-compliance requirement in last year's health-care overhaul and paying for the change by curbing subsidies for health insurance. ...
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US fearful of rising radiation levels in food
CBS News
By John Blackstone The amount of radioactive iodine measured in milk on the West Coast was so small that it did not rise above the normal background level of radiation. Still, it's the first evidence that radiation from Japan's damaged nuclear plant is ...
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Artificial Dye Safe to Eat, Panel Says
New York Times
By GARDINER HARRIS WASHINGTON — There is no proof that foods with artificial colorings cause hyperactivity in most children and there is no need for these foods to carry special warning labels, a government advisory panel voted Thursday. ...
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Cancer Incidence, Deaths Down, Report Shows
MedPage Today
By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Lung cancer mortality in women decreased for the first time in four decades, according to a report showing that overall cancer mortality and incidence have declined since 2003. From 2003 to 2007, ...
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Medicare to Cover Pricey Prostate Cancer Treatment
ABC News
By JOHN GEVER, MedPage Today Senior Editor Medicare plans to pay for Provenge -- an immunotherapy for prostate cancer -- following a determination that it is genuinely effective in metastatic hormone-refractory disease, according to the Centers for ...
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Hands-Free Faucets Not Germ-Free, Study Finds
WebMD
By Matt McMillen March 31, 2011 -- Electronic faucets may be touch-free, but they are far from germ-free. In a new study, researchers at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine report finding higher levels of disease-carrying bacteria on hands-free ...
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Warning to consumers: walking on water is dangerous
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - "Water walking" -- moving across water or other surfaces while inside a large inflated plastic ball -- poses risks of suffocation and drowning, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Thursday. ...
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Avian Flu Investigation at Polk County Poultry Farm
OzarksFirst.com
(Polk County, MO) -- As KOLR/KSFX was the first in the Ozarks to report, Missouri agriculture officials are investigating a low-pathogenic case of avian influenza at a Polk County poultry farm. Mike Martin, a spokesperson for Cargill, says the farmer ...
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Lower BPA By Choosing Fresh Over Canned Foods
Technorati
Sales receipts, water bottles, canned and packaged foods – bisphenol-A (BPA) is in practically everything in our modern world. Given its pervasiveness, it's not surprising that 93% of Americans have detectable levels of BPA in their bodies. ...
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LGBT Health Research Falls Far Short
WebMD
By Daniel J. DeNoon March 31, 2011 -- Lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgendered Americans are distinct populations with unique health health needs -- but what are those needs? "We do not know exactly what these experiences and needs are," concludes ...
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Freeborn vs. Steele County Health Rankings
KAALtv.com
(ABC 6 NEWS) -- The Minnesota Department of Health released health rankings for each of the states 89 counties. The rankings, prepared by the University of Wisconsin were aimed at measuring how healthy people are and how long they live based on a ...
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Investigators in Alabama outbreak find link to pharmacy
CNN International
By Tom Watkins, CNN (CNN) -- Alabama health officials seeking to find the source of bacteria suspected in the deaths of nine hospital patients and the sickening of 10 others announced Thursday they found the same bacteria in a pharmacy in Birmingham. ...
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Obese Ohio man fused to chair and covered with maggots and feces dies
AHN | All Headline News
An obese Ohio man who got stuck on a chair for two years died in a hospital Wednesday, four days after being rescued from his home. The man, who was only identified in reports as a 43-year-old resident of Washington Street in Bellaire, was rescued on ...
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Obama administration proposes rules for healthcare partnerships
Los Angeles Times
The Obama administration is trying to encourage doctors and hospitals to collaborate more closely to improve patient care. Providers would be rewarded for delivering better results for Medicare patients. By Noam N. Levey, Washington Bureau The Obama ...
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AIDS in Africa: The World Bank as 'Sugar Daddy'
BusinessWeek
By Simon Clark When Sandra Tembo walks to the Mbare vegetable market in Harare, Zimbabwe, she passes a billboard: "Your future is brighter without a sugar daddy," it says. Tembo, a 20-year-old dressmaking student, says she's sure her friends "realize ...
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Obama health idea could mean better care, savings
BusinessWeek
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR The Obama administration has come out with a new approach to medical care that it says could mean higher quality care for patients, while also saving money for taxpayers and employers. The new idea involves something called ...
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Arizona Proposes Medicaid Fat Fee
Wall Street Journal
By JANET ADAMY Arizona's governor on Thursday proposed levying a $50 fee on some enrollees in the state's cash-starved Medicaid program, including obese people who don't follow a doctor-supervised slimming regimen and smokers. ...
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Prostate cancer test barely alters death risk
CBC.ca
Staff and members of Parliament, who grew mustaches for the month of November, hold a large mustache on the steps of Parliament Hill in November 2010 to raise awareness. About 4300 die of prostate cancer each year in Canada. ...
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Fidelity: Couples Need $230000 for Retirement Health Costs
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
By Emily Brandon A 65-year-old couple retiring this year will need $230000 to pay for medical care throughout retirement, according to a Fidelity Investments estimate released today. Expected health care costs have declined 8 percent from last year's ...
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ASU anthropologist comments on health messages about obesity
Arizona State University
A comment from an Arizona State University biological anthropologist is the "quotation of the day" in the Mar. 31 edition of the New York Times. "Of all the things we could be exporting to help people around the world, really negative body image and ...
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New Drug May Boost Hepatitis C Treatment
BusinessWeek
By Steven Reinberg WEDNESDAY, March 30 (HealthDay News) -- Adding the new drug boceprevir to the current two-drug treatment for hepatitis C appears significantly more effective than the standard therapy, according to two new studies. ...
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Health Highlights: March 30, 2011
BusinessWeek
Thousands more bottles of Tylenol are being recalled due to customer complaints about a strange, musty odor, says Johnson & Johnson's McNeil Consumer Health division. The latest recall covers about 34000 150-count bottles of Tylenol 8 Hour Extended ...
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The twisted world of Porn WikiLeaks
Salon
A site exposes adult performers' real names and home addresses. Industry insiders talk about its dangers By Tracy Clark-Flory The adult industry may be filled with parodies of mainstream movies and pop culture events -- but the website Porn WikiLeaks ...
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Most Americans Seem to Have Healthy Levels of Vitamin D
BusinessWeek
WEDNESDAY, March 30 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly two-thirds of US residents have sufficient levels of vitamin D levels, but about a fourth of the population is at risk for vitamin D inadequacy and 8 percent are at risk for vitamin D deficiency, ...
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FDA to Allow Continued Use of Cheap Preterm Labor Drug
DrugWatch.com
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced that it will continue allowing pharmacies to produce cheap versions of a popular drug that can reduce the risk of premature labor when taken during early pregnancy. The announcement was made ...
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Stamford chimp victim eligible for face transplant
Greenwich Time
John Christoffersen, AP A Stamford woman, mauled and heavily disfigured by a chimpanzee two years ago, can't see, touch or smell and struggles to eat through a straw. She's eagerly awaiting a donor who would enable her to undergo face and hand ...
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Yale and Gilead Sciences Sign $40 Million Pact in Search for Cancer Drugs
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Ron Winslow Gilead Sciences and the Yale School of Medicine are joining forces in the latest collaboration between industry and academia to hunt for new drugs. Gilead, known mostly for its line of medicines for HIV/AIDS, will pay $40 million for a ...
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Medicare to Cover Prostate Cancer Immunotherapy
MedPage Today
By John Gever, Senior Editor, MedPage Today Medicare plans to pay for sipuleucel-T (Provenge), the autologous immunotherapy for prostate cancer, following a determination that it is genuinely effective in metastatic hormone-refractory disease, ...
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US mulls whether food dyes cause hyperactive kids
AFP
WASHINGTON — An independent panel of experts is to make a recommendation Thursday on whether the US Food and Drug Administration should restrict colorful food dyes which some say cause hyperactivity in children. After years of defending the dyes ...
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Extremely Obese Man Stuck To Chair For Two Years Found Unconscious And Dies
Medical News Today
A 43-year old morbidly obese man who had been stuck to a reclining chair for two years was found unconscious by roommates who immediately called the police. The Ohio man died later at Wheeling Hospital, West Virginia. According to medical staff, ...
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Why I Said 'No' to Backscatter Scanning
Huffington Post (blog)
I have just returned from a long-anticipated spring break trip with my husband and children. We went via a different airline in a different terminal than usual. Surprise! They've got the advanced imaging technology. There are two types of these ...
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Water balls a "deadly danger": CPSC
CBS News
The government has issued a consumer alert over inflated plastic balls that allow participants to walk on water. Susan Koeppen reports. Walking on water isn't only the stuff of Bible texts these days. It's being done all around the world and here in ...
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Eating Fresh Food Drastically Reduces BPA Risk, Study Finds
Huffington Post (blog)
BPA levels in families who ate fresh rather than canned or plastic-packaged food for three days dropped by an average of 60 percent, according to a study released today by the Breast Cancer Fund and Silent Spring Institute. Bishphenol A (or BPA), ...
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CDC Reports Biggest Birth Rate Drop in 30 years
ABC News
By KATIE MOISSE, ABC News Medical Unit After a year of marriage, Ivette Zurita Serrano and her husband, Herbert, were ready to have a baby. But that changed when Ivette lost her job in 2009. "I was let go right when we started thinking about having a ...
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CDC: Only 8 Percent Of Americans Vitamin D Deficient
Huffington Post
There has been a lot of conflicting information surrounding vitamin D deficiency recently, but according to new data released by the CDC, only 8 percent of Americans are currently at risk of an actual deficiency. The report, which used data from ...
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CMS releases proposed ACO rule
American Medical News
The accountable care organization proposal outlines how physicians and hospitals can share in the Medicare savings they generate through better care coordination. By Charles Fiegl, amednews staff. Posted March 31, 2011. Washington -- The Centers for ...
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Health data on our area is mixed bag
Watertown Daily Times
By Steve Sharp of the Daily Times staff JEFFERSON - Health data regarding residents living in Jefferson and Dodge counties is mixed and shows that Jefferson County residents are perhaps slightly healthier, overall, than their Dodge County neighbors. ...
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Hands-free faucets harbor germs, Johns Hopkins study says
Los Angeles Times
By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times Hands-free electronic faucets can save a lot of water -- and because you don't have to touch them with your grubby fingers to turn them on, have widely been assumed to help fight the spread of germs, too. ...
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Los Angeles Times
World to spend 17 bln USD in 2011 to reach new HIV target
Xinhua
By Peter Mutai NAIROBI, March 31 (Xinhua) -- The International community is set to spend 17 billion US dollars this year to reach 2015 goals for AIDS response set by the United Nations (UN), the world's top diplomat said on Thursday. ...
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New Drug Combination Improves Hepatitis C Cure Rate
Voice of America
Scientists are comparing the existing two-drug therapy for hepatitis C with a proposed three-drug treatment. Researchers are in the final steps of evaluating two new drugs to add to the existing treatment for hepatitis C. An estimated 170 million ...
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Retiree Health Care Costs Drop, for Now: Fidelity
CNBC.com
The bad news: A 65-year-old couple retiring this year will need $230000 to pay for medical expenses throughout retirement, not including nursing home care. The good news: That's an 8 percent decline from last year's $250000 cost. ...
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IOM urges more research on gay health issues
ModernHealthcare.com
By Maureen McKinney The Institute of Medicine has issued a report calling for more research into the health conditions and disparities affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals. "Routine collection of information on race and ...
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Most patients impacted by tainted IV bags were in Birmingham hospitals
Bizjournals.com
The Alabama Department of Public Health says 18 of the 19 bacterial infections related to contaminated intravenous bags occurred at hospitals in the Birmingham area. The outbreak of the Serratia marcescens bacteremia infection, which has been linked to ...
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Tylenol Recall
Patch.com
Johnson & Johnson announced March 29 that it is recalling another lot of Tylenol drugs. The reason for the recall is said to be user complaints that the medicines have moldy odor. By Candace Jarrett | Email the author | 5:00am If you are a Tylenol user ...
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Amgen cancer drug fails in late-stage study
BusinessWeek
Amgen Inc. and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd. said Wednesday that their potential cancer treatment motesanib failed to meet its key goal in a late-stage study focusing on lung cancer patients. The drug candidate failed to improve overall survival ...
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GOP planning 1 trillion slash to Medicaid
Politico
Paul Ryan said that he intends to target Medicaid and Medicare for savings. | AP photo Close By JONATHAN ALLEN | 3/31/11 12:10 PM EDT House Republicans are planning to cut as much as $1 trillion over 10 years from Medicaid, the government health ...
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Twin Tots' Playful Babble Sets Internet Abuzz
ABC News
By KATIE MOISSE and LAUREN SHER The boys appear to be having a grown-up conversation complete with questions, answers, facial expressions and gestures -- even the odd laugh -- all while standing next to their refrigerator. One of the boys is missing a ...
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Beauty equals happiness, study says
CBS News
Erica Hill speaks with "Early Show" contributor and Psychologist Dr. Jennifer Hartstein about a study that says attractive people are happier and make more money. If you are attractive, you are more likely to be happy in life, according to a study by ...
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Viewfinder: Bloomingdale Relay for Life
Patch.com
By D'Ann White | Email the author | 2:01pm She's been participating in the Relay for Life for 10 years, ever since her father died of pancreatic cancer. But this was the first time Kim Stromberg participated as a cancer survivor. ...
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Gilead to pay $40M in Yale University cancer deal
Bizjournals.com
Gilead Sciences Inc. will pay $40 million over four years and possibly $100 million total over a decade in a cancer research deal with Yale University. Foster City-based Gilead (NASDAQ: GILD) will work with the New Haven Ivy League school on studying ...
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