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Improving health care with a card
Indianapolis Star - United States
Now Community Health Network, an Indianapolis-based hospital system, wants to bring that same sort of computerized convenience to health care through its ...
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West Nile threat renewed
Boston Globe - United States
"We are continuing to find the virus in new areas, said Dr. Al DeMaria, an epidemiologist with the Department of Public Health. ...
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Pacific Health's plan to buy Anaheim Memorial meets with resistance
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
By Daniel Costello, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Pacific Health Corp., the Tustin-based hospital chain that owns troubled Anaheim General Hospital, ...
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Growing demand for care strains US health system
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
By ALAN BAVLEY Americans are placing unprecedented demands on the health-care system, topping a billion visits a year to doctors’ offices, ...
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Health Technology Companies Go to the Olympics
DOTmed.com (press release) - New York,NY,USA
In particular GE Healthcare and Carestream Health have equipped Olympic clinical facilities. GE Healthcare, with experience in sports medicine, is providing ...
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Two charged for using homeless to bilk health care system
AFP -
LOS ANGELES (AFP) — A hospital owner and an accomplice were arrested Wednesday and charged with bilking the California health care system with reimbursement ...
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Measles confirmed in Hennepin County
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
A case of measles has been confirmed in a 10-month-old child in Hennepin County, state health officials said today. This case is the first acquired in ...
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As numbers of the uninsured go up, so do ER visits
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
While the number of people without health insurance has risen to about 47 million, an increase of more than 5 million since 1996, neither that increase nor ...
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2 arrested in health care fraud case
Contra Costa Times - Walnut Creek,CA,USA
Sabaratnam and Mitts are charged with conspiring to receive and pay kickbacks for patient referrals and to commit health care fraud. ...
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Santa Cruz County's first case of West Nile virus confirmed in a ...
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
No human cases have been detected this year, but health officials warn that the virus is present in the county and people should take precautions. ...
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Global warming may extend ragweed season
For the estimated 36 million people in this country who are allergic to ragweed, global warming is just more bad news.
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Occupational Health News Roundup
By Liz Borkowski
Guardian (UK): A two-year study of temple workers in Bangladesh suggests that exposure to joss sticks, a type of incense often used in Buddhist worship, might have health risks similar to cigarette-smoke exposure (via Enviroblog). ...
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Lying Liars Who Lie (About Reproductive Health)
By Rachel
I can recall a nurse shouting what I was there for (a repro health thing) across a crowded waiting room, an endocrinologist dismissing my extreme fatigue (that turned out to be a very serious thyroid issue) by saying, “Ask all my nurses ...
Women's Health News - http://womenshealthnews.wordpress.com

You can find conflict-free experts in health care, medicine and ...
By schwitz
Health care consumers, and news consumers, are often not told of the biases that may exist in medical research, in clinical care, or in health care professionals’ continuing medical education because of financial ties to drug companies ...
Schwitzer health news blog - http://blog.lib.umn.edu/schwitz/healthnews/

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