Anonymous Essay Citing Doctors’ Bad Behavior During Surgery Sparks Debate In Health Community
Meanwhile, doctors and patients are wondering how to make technologies like Facebook work best between them.
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‘I’m Totally Destroyed’: Heroin Addiction, Deaths Overwhelm Communities, Health Workers
The Washington Post tells the story of the epidemic in Washington County, Pa., where 25 people overdosed over two days, and NPR reports on the epidemic from the town of Marion, Ohio.
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Veterans Are Being Short-Changed On Local Health Care Options, Advocates Say
Also, in military health news, a study shows that women warriors suffer PTSD at the same rate as men, and hearing loss among service members prompts the Army to participate in a clinical drug trial.
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Protracted Legal Battle Could Result From States’ Efforts To Cut Off Medicaid Funds To Planned Parenthood
As fallout continues from the covertly taped Planned Parenthood videos, Politico reports that two of the branches featured stopped donating fetal tissue to research several years ago. Meanwhile, a series of anti-abortion protests were held at Planned Parenthood facilities over the weekend.
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Independence Blue Cross Plans To Buck The Insurer Merger Trend
In pharmaceutical news, slowing market growth in China is raising red flags for the U.S. drug industry. And GlaxoSmithKline is selling rights to an autoimmune disease medication, ofatumumab, to Novartis for $1 billion.
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Ted Cruz To Take Lead Role In Anti-Planned Parenthood Campaign As He Courts Evangelicals
In other news from the Republican primary field: Scott Walker has a plan for winning Senate support for his health proposal, Rick Perry and John Kasich trade barbs on Medicaid expansion, Donald Trump tells big crowds that he will "repeal and replace" Obamacare and Bobby Jindal brags about his move against Planned Parenthood supporters.
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Koch Brothers’ Health Law Opposition Set For Long Fight
The president of Americans for Prosperity, a group founded by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, says support for his group is growing. In other health law news, a look at efforts to improve coverage for people on Medicare and Medicaid, an appeals court temporarily stays its ruling about contraceptive coverage, California's marketplace pledges to improve service and Speaker John Boehner hires a health care expert.
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Overtime Pay, Minimum Wage Protections For Home-Health Workers Reinstated
A federal appeals court upholds Labor Department regulations granting home-health workers the right to minimum-wage and overtime pay.
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First Edition: August 24, 2015
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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Viewpoints: GOP Presidential Candidates, Health Reforms And Replacing Obamacare; Ted Cruz On Ending Planned Parenthood Funding
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
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State Highlights: Dallas’ Historic Parkland Hospital Moves To New Facility; N.Y.C. Officially Declares An End To Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak
Health care stories are reported from Texas, New York, North Carolina, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Florida, Maryland and Connecticut.
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Florida Health Agency Says Three Abortion Clinics Back In Operation Are Still Under Investigation
In Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal broadcast the Planned Parenthood sting videos from the grounds of his mansion last night as a pro-Planned Parenthood rally took place outside. And in South Carolina, the attorney general is looking into Medicaid payments to three abortion clinics.
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In N.C., State Audit Finds Savings From Medicaid Care Management Program
A report from the state auditor shows the program has saved hundreds of millions of dollars over a decade. Meanwhile, North Carolina state legislators continue efforts to reach a compromise on how to reshape the state's health insurance program for low-income people.
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Hospitals Increasingly Embrace Medicare Bundled Payments
New data from Avalere Health shows 9 percent of acute care hospitals are engaging in the program, despite financial risks. Elsewhere, hospitals are also not blaming the health law for some industry woes, CMS readies new alternative payment methods for some providers and Medicare fraud outside the United States becomes more prevalent.
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Aggressive Treatment Of Very Early Breast Cancer May Not Be Effective, Study Finds
The study found that radiation following a lumpectomy, the standard treatment of earliest breast cancer, reduced the chances for disease recurrence but didn't lower 20-year survival rates.
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Online Doctor Appointment Service ZocDoc Valued At $1.8B
The company is raising money to expand. Elsewhere in health care technology news, Google Glass finds a place in the doctor's office and startups aim at giving second opinions on expensive surgery.
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Congressional Democrats Eye Legality Of Controversial Videos About Planned Parenthood And Fetal Tissue Research
Meanwhile, Politico reports on one of the women featured in some of the covert videos and why she says she participated in the so-called "sting."
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GOP Presidential Hopeful Jeb Bush Gets Koch Attention
Tea party members are likely to continue supporting Bush over candidates like Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who supported Medicaid expansion. The candidate also expressed confidence that voters will support him over Donald Trump, whom he hit over Trump's positions on abortion and a single-payer health care system.
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Hutchinson Signals Willingness To Continue Ark. Medicaid Expansion Beyond 2016 — If Changes Are Made
The changes, however, would be a tough sell to the Obama administration. Meanwhile, news from Alaska details how some expansion opponents are turning to the courts to stop the state plan for implementation.
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Benefits Of Women’s Low-Libido Medication May Not Outweigh Expense And Side Effects
As doctors debate the merits of Addyi, the newly FDA-approved drug dubbed the "female Viagra," its maker Sprout Pharmaceuticals is being acquired by Valeant Pharmaceuticals for $1 billion.