New Online Diagnosis Tool Offers Prescriptions In A Hurry
News outlets report on the expanding online relationship between doctors and patients.
Archives: Morning Breakouts
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Hospitals Under Pressure From Flagging Budgets, Regulators
Maryland and New York hospitals are squaring off against various financial and regulatory challenges.
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WellPoint CEO Braly Faces Sharp Criticism At Shareholders Meeting
"Pressure is mounting on WellPoint Inc. Chief Executive Angela Braly, who faced tough questions about the health insurer's practices at its annual shareholders meeting Tuesday, before the gathering ended abruptly after a director collapsed," The Wall Street Journal reports.
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First Edition: May 19, 2010
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including the latest developments regarding legislation related to the Medicare physician payment fix.
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To Sell Plan, White House Officials Focus On Four Key Aspects Of Health Reform
White House officials eager to sell the most popular elements of the health reform law are focusing on four areas to try to gain votes and popularity for key lawmakers ahead of November's midterm elections.
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Administration Touts Small Business Tax Credits For Health Insurance, Rules Issued
The new health law created tax credits of up to 35 percent of premiums for small businesses starting this year.
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AP Examines HIV Microbicides, PrEP Research
"Try after try to make vaginal creams that could repel the AIDS virus have failed. Now researchers are testing if a drug used to treat HIV infection finally might give women a tool to prevent it
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BMJ News Examines How Drug Resistance, Access Undermine Malaria Fight In Uganda, Cambodia
BMJ News looks at how lack of access to drugs and resistance are undermining the fight against malaria.
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WHO Director-General Pushes For Sustained Commitment To MDGs At World Health Assembly
During her opening address to the World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan called for increased global efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Pana/Afrique en ligne reports. Chan also set-up several global health challenges to be addressed during the five-day meeting, according to the news service.
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States Combat Health Costs, Workforce And Safety Issues
A Nebraska city hopes to lower health costs by requiring retirees to pay more; California officials say a hospital risked patient injuries; and Texas doctors are increasingly arriving from abroad.
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Minn. Budget Deal Postpones Key Medicaid Decision
Minnesota's Democratic-controlled legislature ended a budget standoff Monday that focused on Medicaid policy.
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Today’s Opinions: Waste In Health Care; Keeping Your Coverage; Overburdening ERs; The Real Price Of Care
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Tuesday's opinions and editorials from around the country.
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Health Law Already Affecting Consumers, Insurers, Brokers
The health law's impact on health insurance rules will affect consumers, insurers and sales agents.
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Study: ICU Patients Without Insurance Coverage More Likely To Die
A study released Monday found that intensive care patients who didn't have insurance were 21 percent more likely to die than those with insurance.
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Physicians Opting Out Of Some Insurance Create Two-Tiered Medical System
The Fiscal Times reports that a two-tiered medical system is emerging for the haves and have nots.
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Massachusetts Insurers Blame Caps On Rate Increases For Large Losses
Four major Massachusetts health insurers are blaming Gov. Deval Patrick's rate increase caps for their first quarter losses that total more than $150 million.
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Former NIH Chief Varmus To Head National Cancer Institute
Nobel-prize winner Harold Varmus, currently head of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, will begin as National Cancer Institute chief in July.
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AARP: Cost Of Brand Name Drugs Rose 9.7% Last Year
"The AARP says that manufacturer prices for brand-name prescription drugs commonly used by people on Medicare rose 9.7% for the year ending in March - the biggest annual jump since the group started tracking prices in 2002," The Wall Street Journal Health Blog reports.
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