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An attorney for the man charged with the murder of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller says in court records that his client has the right to argue in court that the slaying was justified to prevent future abortions, the AP/MSNBC reports.
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Kaiser Health News staff writer Chris Weaver examines a Kaiser Family Foundation poll that "shows little movement in measures of public opinion" on health reform. About one-third like the current Democratic bills, another third want reform, but not what Democratic lawmakers have in mind and ...
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In this Kaiser Health News column, Robert Laszewski writes about concerns that the reform measures being considered on Capitol Health do not slow the growth of health care costs. "You would be hard pressed to find any health policy expert who isn't disappointed that cost containment has fallen ...
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Senators away for the Thanksgiving holiday are continuing the health care reform debate with constituents and are facing far less vitriol than during the August recess. CongressDaily: "In a memorandum to members, Senate Democratic leaders suggested this is a prime time to frame the debate ...
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News outlets provide a variety of fact checks on health care reform. The Christian Science Monitor reports on four key issues - a public option, raising taxes and cutting costs, individual mandates and abortion - that may become points of major differences when expected debate begins Nov. 30 ...
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CongressDaily: "Democratic senators are aiming to pass legislation to extend subsidies to help the unemployed and underemployed afford healthcare coverage before federal funding expires at the end of this year, Sen. Robert Casey Jr., D-Pa., said today.
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Efforts to crack down on Medicare fraud heat up while some experts say more should be done. Reuters reports that the "The Justice Department and Department of Health and Human Services launched a special strike force in Miami in 2007 to combat Medicare fraud in South Florida and similar ...
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Medical technology company Medtronic's stocks surged 5 percent Tuesday in the wake of strong earnings reports, while rivals on implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) market saw similar gains in the neighborhood of 4 percent, Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal reports. ICDs monitor patient's ...
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Cirrhosis is an abnormal liver condition in which there is irreversible scarring of the liver. The main causes are sustained excessive alcohol consumption, viral hepatitis B and C, and fatty liver disease - however, there are many possible causes. People with cirrhosis may develop jaundice ...
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Antiabortion-rights Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) on Tuesday said he will try to change the abortion coverage provisions in the Senate health care reform bill, although he stopped short of saying he would oppose the legislation unless restrictions similar to those in the House version (HR 3962) are put ...
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The Baltimore City Council voted 12-3 to approve a bill requiring the city's crisis pregnancy centers to display signs in English and Spanish informing patients that the centers do not "provide or make referral for abortion or birth control services," the Baltimore Sun reports. Centers whose ...
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Kaiser Health News' Julie Appleby examines what could happen if health legislation in Congress passes: "Republicans say premiums would go up, partly because of the possibility of new taxes on insurers. Democrats say they'll go down because of sweeping new regulations on insurers, as well as ...
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The American Society of Hematology (ASH) is pleased to recognize the following abstract presenters with the highest scoring abstracts in the categories of undergraduate student, medical student, graduate student, resident physician, and post-doctoral fellow. Merit Award winners receive a $500 ...
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The American Society of Hematology (ASH), the world's largest professional society of blood specialists, will recognize a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and the national spokesperson for the Coalition to Prevent Deep-Vein Thrombosis for their efforts to promote biomedical research.
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The New York Times reports that while the Senate health bill "includes nearly every big idea that health economists and medical researchers have for slowing cost growth - as well as for improving the patchwork quality of American health care, ... many of the ideas, like the rule on Medicare ...
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Roll Call reports that 22 senators have written the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee asking its leaders to hold hearings on controversial new mammogram guidelines. "The letter came less than a week after the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended looser guidelines ...
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Health companies have done better than the rest of corporate America during the past decade, MarketWatch/Seattle Times reports. While profits at the S&P; 500 companies declined slightly over 10 years, "[d]ata compiled by MarketWatch show that the 52 health-care companies in the index are about ...
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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has approved, "in principle," a $47 million grant to reduce the spread of HIV among gay and other men who have sex with men in seven south Asian countries, IANS/Thaindian.com reports. According to a statement IANS/Thaindian.
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Politico's Laura Rozen reports on her foreign policy blog that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has scheduled a confirmation hearing for Rajiv Shah, President Obama's nominee to head USAID, on December 1 (11/24). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind ...
