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What's next for the US healthcare law?
Reuters
By Donna Smith If the court does decide that the coverage mandate violates the Constitution, many experts believe the judges would most likely strike down just that provision and leave the rest of the law intact. A decision striking down the purchase ...
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Lead Surgeon: Full Face Transplant Recipient 'Doing Great'
WBUR
By Bob Oakes Plastic surgeon Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, far right, in a news conference at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston on Monday, March 21, 2011, to discuss his team's completion of the first full face transplant in the US (AP) BOSTON — Months ...
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WBUR
Myocardial infarction alert: Sex kills, also quite a bit of fun
CBS News
That's the screwy lesson from a new study which says that for out-of-shape folks, sporadic strenuous activity, like sex, is associated with a 2.7 times increase in the risk of myocardial infarction (doctor speak for heart attack). ...
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CBS News
Gilead HIV drug as effective as Merck drug in trial
Reuters
By Toni Clarke BOSTON (Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc said on Wednesday that its experimental HIV drug elvitegravir proved as effective as a drug made by Merck & Co in a late-stage clinical trial. The trial showed that after 48 weeks of treatment, ...
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Well: What's Your Biggest Regret?
New York Times (blog)
By TARA PARKER-POPE We all have regrets, but new research suggests the most common regret among American adults involves a lost romantic opportunity. Researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign collected ...
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Factbox: Lawsuits challenging healthcare reform
Reuters
(Reuters) - More than half of all states have launched lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the healthcare reforms signed into law by President Barack Obama a year ago. Most legal scholars expect one of the suits to reach the US Supreme Court. ...
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WHO Report Urges Countries To Step Up Fight Against Drug-Resistant TB
Kaiser Family Foundation
A WHO report released Wednesday says countries with the highest drug-resistant tuberculosis burdens are making progress in addressing the disease, "but despite the recent scale up in efforts, the world needs to do much more to get care to all ...
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Cosmetic procedures slowly making a comeback, nationally and locally
KSBY San Luis Obispo News
If you find yourself with some extra cash and start to think about spending it on a cosmetic procedure you are not alone. Cosmetic procedures have long been a good economic indicator. Many experts have said we are experiencing a slight up turn in the ...
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Product recalls: Delta drop-side cribs and Gerber Gator combo axe
Washington Post
By AP, Wednesday, March 23, 10:53 AM DETAILS: The Consumer Product Safety Commission reissued a 2008 recall of more than 985000 drop-side cribs by Delta Enterprise Corp., in New York, because of the death of a 7-month-old girl from Colorado Springs, ...
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Report faults Army in 2001 anthrax mailings
Los Angeles Times
Officials missed signs of alarming mental problems in Dr. Bruce Ivins, the scientist suspected in the deadly bioterrorism attacks. Army scientist Bruce Ivins, shown working in his lab, committed suicide in 2008 as federal prosecutors prepared to seek ...
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Los Angeles Times
Venezuela's Confirmed Swine Flu Cases Climbs To 100
Wall Street Journal
By Ezequiel Minaya CARACAS (Dow Jones)--The number of confirmed H1N1 flu cases in Venezuela has risen to 100, the country's health minister, Eugenia Sader, said Tuesday. Speaking on state television, Sader assured Venezuelans with estimates that fewer ...
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High school student uses disease to inform others
WALB-TV
By Laura Ann Sills - bio | email COLUMBUS, GA - Nearly twenty-million people in the United States have diabetes. But, even more shocking, there are another seven-million that do not know yet. Chelsea Walker found out she was a Type 1 diabetic at the ...
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Broncos Crack the Top 10 in National Polls
WMUBroncos.com
KALAMAZOO -- Heading in to their first bid in the NCAA Tournament since 1996, the Western Michigan Bronco hockey team has reached its highest ranking in both the USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Poll since the 2000-01 season, placing 10th in ...
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GSK scraps plans to market prostate-cancer drug
Seattle Post Intelligencer
AP LONDON -- Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline PLC says it will no longer pursue global regulatory approval to market its Avodart drug to treat prostate cancer following negative feedback from American and Swedish regulators. Avodart is approved in more than ...
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Experts: Stem cell research ban could make criminals out of patients
Minnesota Independent
By Andy Birkey | 03.23.11 | 10:55 am A bill in the Minnesota Legislature that would ban some forms of stem cell research could have unintended consequences for patients and researchers if it becomes law. The Human Cloning Prohibition Act could cost the ...
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FDA Extends Review of Novartis Lung Drug
Wall Street Journal
By GORAN MIJUK Chances for a quick approval of Novartis AG's lung drug indacaterol have been quashed by the US Food and Drug Administration, which alerted the Swiss pharma giant it needs three more months to assess the medicine's trial data. ...
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HP to Extend Health Care
Zacks.com
Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ - Analyst Report) recently signed a 5-year deal with the health care division of Nevada Department of Health and Human Services. Per the terms of the deal, HP will receive a sum of $176.0 million. Nevada Division of Health ...
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23000 Pounds of Bologna Recalled Over E. Coli
Food Product Design
WASHINGTON—Palmyra Bologna Co. Inc., a Palmyra, Pa., firm, is recalling approximately 23000 pounds of Lebanon bologna products because they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced March 22. ...
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Colorado reporting 'miniscule' radiation from Japan reactor
The Coloradoan
Colorado has joined other states now reporting detection of minuscule levels of radiation coming from the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, according to state health officials. Preliminary sampling from a Denver monitor has detected a radioactive ...
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