Washington PostHealth care: Public option gains tractionSan Francisco ChronicleFears about high costs of the health care overhaul and mistrust of insurers are rekindling interest in letting the government sell health insurance as part of the plan. The leading congressional proposal as of Wednesday - a ...FACT CHECKER Health Insurance Industry ReportsWashington PostPublic Option Is Next Big Hurdle in Health DebateNew York TimesDemocrats work to finalize health legislationThe Associated PressLos Angeles Times -New York Daily News -USA Todayall 6,697 news articles »
Telegraph.co.ukFACTBOX-New flu still raises questions among expertsReutersWASHINGTON, Oct 15 (Reuters) - How many people have been infected with the new swine flu? How many will it kill? How do you catch it? Health authorities around the worldare trying to persuade people to line up ...H1N1 Fears Driving Seasonal Flu Shot ShortageWBAL TVUpstate Doctors Get First Batch Of H1N1 Flu VaccineWHNSH1N1: Despite the Media Frenzy, There's Little Reason to PanicRiver Cities ReaderFortBendNow -Newsday -The Herald | HeraldOnline.comall 3,166 news articles »
PsychCentral.comSeven Breast Cancer MythsFOXNewsEach October, pink ribbons flow and women are reminded that breast cancer is the second most common cancer affecting them, with skin cancer being No. 1. About 200000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year in the US, and 40000 will die from it ...Women gathered in camaraderie for “In the Pink” luncheonKansas State CollegianPink PowerNBC Dallas-Fort WorthMt. Lebanon football fans go pinkPittsburgh Post GazetteBuffalo News -Chicago Tribune -Monterey County Heraldall 924 news articles »
TopNews United StatesAcorda Shares Rise On FDA Panel Vote Supporting MS Drug >ACORWall Street JournalNEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Acorda Therapeutics Inc. (ACOR) received the support of a Food and Drug Administration panel for its multiple sclerosis drug, increasing confidence in the drug's approval and sending shares ...Ahead of the Bell: Acorda surges on MS drug reviewForbesFDA Panel Likes Acorda's Multiple Sclerosis DrugWall Street Journal (blog)FDA panel backs Acorda MS drug in lopsided voteFierceBiotechGerson Lehrman Group -BioWorld Online -Forex Prosall 83 news articles »
WJBF-TVHospitals fear swine flu, bar visits by kidsSan Francisco ChronicleCiting the need to reduce the spread of the swine flu virus, Stanford and Lucile Packard Children's hospitals announced plans Wednesday to bar children under the age of 16 from visiting patients, including family members, starting Monday. ...Stanford, Packard hospitals to start banning young visitorsSan Jose Mercury NewsBRIEF: Hospitals will bar visitors under 16The Stanford DailyBall Memorial Hospital cites Swine Flu for visitation hours cutsBall State Daily NewsMuncie Star Press -KGET 17 -Bakersfield Californianall 119 news articles »
WWAY NewsChannel 3Risks call dialysis into question for nursing home patientsUSA TodayBy Rick T. Wilking, for USA TODAY By Rita Rubin, USA TODAY Within a year of starting dialysis, more than half of older nursing home residents die, and nearly another third experience a significant decline in their ability to perform simple tasks, ...Dialysis' Drawbacks Outweigh Benefits for Some Older PatientsAtlanta Journal ConstitutionDialysis Linked to Functional Decline in Nursing Home Residents With End-Stage ...MedscapeElderly Decline Rapidly After Starting DialysisMedPage Today24 Medica -WWAY NewsChannel 3 -ABC7Chicago.comall 37 news articles »
Daily MailUnsafe abortions kill 70000 a year, harm millionsReutersLONDON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Increased use of contraceptives has pushed global abortion rates down, but unsafe abortions kill 70000 women each year and seriously harm or maim millions more, a global report said on Tuesday. ...Bans 'do not cut abortion rate'BBC NewsAbortion Down, Contraception Up: Recipe for Health Reform?U.S. News &World ReportOne report on abortion and contraception, but many nuancesLos Angeles TimesDallas Morning News -Christian Science Monitorall 516 news articles »
Scientific AmericanLate-Dementia Suffering Often UnnecessaryWebMDOct. 14, 2009 -- Patients with advanced Alzheimer's disease or other age-related dementias often suffer unnecessarily near the end of life probably because their condition is not recognized as fatal, researchers say. ...Advanced Dementia Viewed as Terminal IllnessABC NewsAdvanced Dementia Suffering Can Be AvoidedTopNews United StatesFamilies Need to Know When Dementia Becomes TerminalAtlanta Journal ConstitutionTIME -Boston Globe -Medical News Todayall 36 news articles »
KFGOMissing laptop contains data on 800000 doctorsUSA TodayThe Chicago Tribune reports that some 800000 doctors are being warned about a laptop holding their personal data that has turned up missing from the Chicago-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Nearly every practicing physician in the country ...Laptop containing doctors' personal data is stolen from carChicago TribuneBlue Cross will move 250 jobs downtownLansing State JournalHow Your Health Benefits Are ChangingForbesBizjournals.com -WILX-TV -WCHL 1360all 71 news articles »
guardian.co.ukGSK antidepressant Paxil to blame for baby's heart defects, US jury rulesTelegraph.co.ukA US family has been awarded $2.5 million (£1.6 million) in damages after a Philadelphia jury decided that the antidepressant Paxil, known as Seroxat in Britain, was responsible for their son's birth defects. GlaxoSmithKline Plc, the British ...$2.5M verdict over birth defects blamed on PaxilThe Associated PressSeroxat: a patient's testimonyguardian.co.ukJury Sides with Family in Paxil Birth Defect CasePharmExec.comWHYY -Newsinferno.com -The American Lawyerall 183 news articles »
