Friday, April 1, 2011

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CDC: Drop in U.S. Birth Rates Biggest in 30 Years
Fox News
Less women are having babies in the US, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The number of births fell 4 percent from 2007 to 2009, which is the biggest drop for any two-year period in 30 years. ...
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Dendreon Remains Neutral
Zacks.com
We have maintained our Neutral recommendation on Dendreon Corporation (DNDN - Analyst Report) with a target price of $39.00 following the announcement of fourth quarter and full year 2010 financial results. Dendreon's fourth quarter 2010 loss of 61 ...
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Teen Overcomes Tourette With Risky Procedure
ABC News
By LARA SALAHI As with many 9-years-old boys, Robbie Lettieri of Long Island, NY, just couldn't sit still. Robbie incessantly opened and closed his mouth without speaking, moved his fingers and coughed even though he wasn't sick. ...
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Pharmaceutical company slashes price of preterm baby drug Makena
Washington Post
By Rob Stein, Friday, April 1, 10:10 AM A pharmaceutical company that has come under intense criticism for charging $1500 a dose for a drug that prevents women from giving birth too soon announced Friday that it was slashing the price of the medication ...
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Health Buzz: Lung Cancer Deaths Drop Among Women
U.S. News & World Report
By Angela Haupt For the first time in four decades, the lung cancer death rate among women is dropping. And though the decline is small—just under 1 percent a year—researchers say it's promising, especially because a similar drop began among men more ...
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Midwife shortage costs over a million lives: report
Reuters
By Emma Graham-Harrison KABUL (Reuters) - More than a million mothers and newborn babies are dying each year from easily prevented birth complications because of a chronic shortage of midwives across much of the developing world, a new report from Save ...
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Greenville Glows Blue For Good Cause
WYFF Greenville
GREENVILLE COUNTY, SC -- If you notice some blue in the sky around Greenville County Friday and Saturday night, it's for a good reason. The Greenville's Hubbell Lighting Headquarters, NEXT Innovation Center Building, Riverplace office building, ...
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US FDA staff backs efficacy of Optimer antibiotic
Reuters
By Lisa Richwine WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) - An experimental antibiotic from Optimer Pharmaceuticals Inc (OPTR.O) successfully fought an infection that causes life-threatening diarrhea, US reviewers said in documents released on Friday. ...
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Man Who Was Cut From Home Dies
Wheeling News Register
Richard Hughes, the 43-year-old man who was removed from his house on Sunday, reportedly died at Wheeling Hospital. Firefighters and a police officer had to cut a side out of a home Sunday to extricate a man from his residence on the 2800 block of ...
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Medicare: CMS unveils Accountable Care Organization proposal
Mass Device
The medical device industry approaches with caution as the first major payment reforms of the Affordable Care Act are released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services introduced a proposal to ...
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Bats Worth Billions to Agriculture: Pest-Control Services at Risk
PR Newswire (press release)
BOSTON, April 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Thomas Kunz, Warren Distinguished Professor in Boston University's Department of Biology, has coauthored an analysis published this week in the journal Science that shows how declines of bat populations ...
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County ranks among top 20 in state health
Weakley County Press
Williamson County continues to have the healthiest residents in Tennessee and Benton County is the least healthy county in the state, according to the annual County Health Rankings, released Wednesday by the University of Wisconsin Population Health ...
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Recent Gains In AIDS Battle Encouraging But Fragile, Says United Nations ...
Medical News Today
Commenting on a new United Nations AIDS report, UN General Secretary Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described the gains as "laudable but fragile" and urged leaders throughout the world to take brave decisions to confront the AIDS epidemic. ...
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GOP FY 2012 Budget Plan Would Trim $1T From Medicaid in 10 Years
California Healthline
House Republicans intend to cut about $1 trillion over 10 years from Medicaid as part of their fiscal year 2012 budget plan, according to GOP sources, Politico reports. The plan -- which the GOP will release next month -- likely will call for ...
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Courtroom Action: June 8 Will Mark Important Date For Health Law
Kaiser Health News
That's the day when oral arguments will be held regarding the Obama administration's federal-court appeal of the ruling in the multi-state challenge to the health overhaul. Oral arguments are set for June 8 in the Obama administration's federal-court ...
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J&J Revamps McNeil Unit After Recalls
Wall Street Journal
By JONATHAN D. ROCKOFF Johnson & Johnson is revamping the troubled unit that makes Tylenol and giving it new leadership in an effort to fix quality problems that have prompted multiple recalls, according to people familiar with the matter. ...
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Chef Damian Cordone claims he ignores gluten-free requests in Facebook rant
New York Daily News
BY Katie Nelson Chef Damian Cordone, who claims to have worked at Tavern on the Green, admits ignoring customers' gluten-free requests in Facebook rant. What kind of punishment should Damian Cordone receive if he ignored customers' gluten-free requests ...
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