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Supporters and opponents of the reform package are roughly equally divided, 42 percent to 44 percent respectively, and most of those who oppose the new law (81 percent) say it makes the “wrong changes.” “They are shoveling it down our throats without …
LONDON — The next time Stephen Quake is prescribed a drug, he says he won’t worry about … We need to get better at explaining what this information means for patients,” said Euan Ashley, an assistant professor of medicine at Stanford and the …
BAXTER, Minn. – The Minnesota Department of Health is investigating a fundraiser at a church in Baxter where … The Department of Health says Baxter’s Prairie Bay Restaurant catered the event. Preliminary investigation is pointing to a norovirus as …
AUSTIN, Texas—Gov. Rick Perry told U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Friday that Texas will not submit plans to operate a temporary high-risk insurance pool. The high-risk insurance pools are part of the federal health care overhaul and Sebelius had asked states to
COLUMBIA, MD. — Integral Systems Inc. said Friday that Bill Bambarger plans to resign as chief financial officer at the end of July for personal and health reasons. The company, which provides satellite technology, said it has begun seeking a new …
A majority of states have told the Obama administration they want to take part in providing new coverage to uninsured people with medical problems — an early benefit of the health care overhaul law. The Health and Human Services Department …
NewswireToday – /newswire/ – San Antonio, TX, United States, 04/30/2010 – Physicians Health Choice, a physician-owned Medicare Advantage health plan received full Health Plan accreditation from URAC – a health care organization that evaluates …
… Virginia has now resulted in a criminal investigation that involves both mine owner Massey Energy and the Mine Safety and Health Administration, NPR News has learned. Upper Big Branch is the coal mine in Montcoal, W. Va, where 29 miners died in …
… threw her support behind Hernando County Sheriff Richard Nugent, a Republican who filed to run for the seat just before the noon deadline. “This past week Rich told me he would stand in my place for election to Congress,” Brown-Waite said in a …
SAN FRANCISCO — The Schwarzenegger administration lost a legal fight Friday to end oversight of California’s prison health care system. The 9th U … stop the receiver’s construction plans to add medical beds. California has been trying to end …