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Scientists Find Single Dose Of Drug Cures Visceral Leishmaniasis
Scientists have discovered that a single infusion of Gilead Sciences' drug AmBisome, known generically as iposomal amphotericin B, cures patients with the visceral leishmaniasis, or kala-azar, a parasitic infection, Reuters reports. Spread by the sand fly and affecting 500,000 people a year, visceral leishmaniasis is found in Asia, Africa, and parts of Europe, but is concentrated in India, according to the news service.
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Health Companies Criticized For Deceptive Marketing While Anthem Rate Hikes Continue To Draw Attention
News outlets chronicle deceptive marketing practices by some companies, and rate hikes from others.
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Mass. Gov. Seeks Greater Authority To Attack Health Costs
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick asked the state legislature to grant his administration broad new authority to determine rates charged by medical providers in hopes of curbing costs and making health care more affordable.
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Calif. Budget Cuts Will Hit Adult Day Care Centers, Prison Health Care; Texas And Kansas Weigh Medicaid Cuts
States struggle with strapped budgets, resulting in possible cuts to adult day care centers in California and cuts to Medicaid in Texas and Kansas. In Florida, Gov. Crist says he is now "open" to expanding Medicaid Reform program and La. Gov. Jindal proposes shifting some institutional care to community-based options.
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Today’s Opinions And Editorials: A Litigation Explosion, Anthem Blue Cross And Starting Fresh
Today's collection of opinions and editorials.
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States Push For Insurers To Increase Coverage
States tackle several health care policy issues focused on health insurance coverage. They include possible health insurance mandates to cover prosthetics in Idaho and a push for insurance companies to cover oral chemotherapies in Kansas.
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Medicaid And Other State Programs Face Questions About Fraud, Other Difficulties
Several states are exploring fraud and abuse in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.
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Payments, Pricing Info, Paperwork May Contribute To Costs, Confusion
The way doctors, hospitals and other health care providers are paid creates a so-called perverse incentive to order more and more medical services, even when those services do not contribute to better health.
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AMA Unhappy With Senate Plan For Medicare ‘Doc Fix’
The American Medical Association is criticizing a plan to avoid a cut in Medicare payments to physicians, calling it a 'Band-Aid' measure, Bloomberg/BusinessWeek reports.
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Proving Value A Challenge For Comparative Effectiveness And Pharmaceutical Technologies
The Wall Street Journal reports that "an examination of one of the best-known examples of a comparative-effectiveness analysis shows how complicated such a seemingly straightforward idea can get" as officials look for savings in the health care system.
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Gregg Ready For ‘Dialogue’ On Health Reform, Pelosi Ready For Reconciliation Fight
Politico reports that Sen. Judd Gregg could be a Republican partner for Obama's White House as the administration looks to move forward on salvaging some health reform.
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Coalition Group Calls For Bigger FDA Budget
Although the president's budget called for an increase in the FDA's budget, a groups of public interest advocates, patient groups and healthcare industry interests say it's not enough.
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New York’s Detained Youth Lack Coordinated Mental Health Care
Detained youth in New York lack coordinated mental health care and an overseer to ensure such coordination.
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First Edition: February 11, 2010
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including whether Sen. Judd Gregg can play an important role in finding bipartisanship.
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Individual Insurance Policies Susceptible To Increases
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that as the economy slowly recovers, health insurance costs for those with individual policies continue to increase over larger numbers of unemployed and those relying on government health care programs.
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In White House Meeting, Obama And GOP Discuss Partisan Divide
The president met with congressional leaders from both parties to search for "potential areas of compromise" on health care reform and other issues.
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Congress To Investigate 39 Percent Premium Hike By California’s Anthem Blue Cross
Congress is opening a probe into premium hikes for individual policies -- some as high as 39 percent -- by Anthem Blue Cross in California.
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