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Government Healthcare Spending to Set All Time High

Federal actuaries for the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) predict that government programs next year will set a milestone as they will account

Vegetative state doesn't mean brain death

Some patients diagnosed as being in a vegetative state may be fully aware of what's going on around him, a new study in the New ...
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New parity law offers more help for mental health care

The U.S. federal government Jan 29 implemented a law requiring that health insurance plans cover mental and physical illnesses to the same extent, medscape reported. The ...
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Programs that Can Help You Pay Your Medical Expenses

There are Federal and state programs available for people with Medicare who have limited income and resources. These programs may help you save on your ...
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Review Finds Few Benefits from Mammogram Screening

Tuesday Jan 20, 2010 (foodconsumer.org) -- A review study by Peter C Gotzsche and Margrethe Nielsen from the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark suggests ...
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U.S. Health spending $7681 per capita in 2008

Health spending in the U.S. grew 4.4 percent in 2008 to $2.3 trillion or $7,681 per person in the country, according to a new annual ...
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Childhood Cancer Survivors at Increased Risk of Heart Disease

Editor's comment: Cancer treatments are harsh enough to sicken adults. It is apparent that pediatric cancer patients could suffer even more side effects....
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Harvard Takes it Back and Says Swine Flu was Oversold

Posted by: Dr. Mercola January 02 2010   A new analysis from Harvard University, using H1N1 deaths in the U.S. in the spring and projecting likely outcomes ...
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Dual liver transplant performed

By David Liu A liver transplant was successfully performed in a 17-year old teen and a 2-year old toddler at Children Memorial Hospital in Chicago, new media ...
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MMR vaccine may actually cut autism risk

A recent survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that prevalence of autism in U.S. children increased by 57 percent ...
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