Kevin Roche – Page 1009 – Healthy Skeptic

Jan 06 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The Obama-era FDA approved 26 new drugs last year. That’s a hair’s breadth from the 25 new drugs approved by the Bush-era FDA in 2008

Jan 06 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Patients with severe depression benefit most from antidepressant medications while those with less-severe symptoms see little or no benefit

Jan 06 2010

New York Times

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Medicare officials on Wednesday detailed plans to distribute billions of dollars in stimulus to upgrade the nation’s paper medical records to electronic files

Jan 06 2010

Reuters

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U.S. judge upheld much of a sweeping federal law limiting the marketing of cigarettes – FDA spokeswoman said ruling will allow mplementation of the tobacco control act

Jan 06 2010

Nashville Bizjournal

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Primus Capital has sponsored a recapitalization of PathGroup, a Brentwood, Tenn.-based provider of diagnostic laboratory services.

Jan 06 2010

National Health Spending in 2008

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National health spending growth slowed in 2008, but still grew at a rate much faster than GDP, meaning health care continues to account for a greater share of total GDP.…

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Jan 05 2010

Ethiopian Review

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TA Associates has sold its ownership stake in Logistics Health, a LaCrosse, Wis.-based health care delivery system

Jan 05 2010

Wall Street Journal

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That’s true as far as it goes — growth increased at a rate of 4.4%, but a more important figure to keep an eye on is national health-care spending as a percentage of total GDP

Jan 05 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Our nation currently faces a shortage of physicians expected to worsen as the number of people over age 65

Jan 05 2010

Wall Street Journal

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More Americans are being prescribed multiple psychiatric medications but most people diagnosed with recent depression don’t get adequate treatment

Jan 05 2010

Washington Post

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A Senate aide tells Washington Wire that the two chambers plan to skip the formal conference process

Jan 05 2010

Bloomberg

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U.S. Democrats will likely drop the idea of setting up a new government-run insurance program as they try to quickly resolve differences

Jan 05 2010

Wall Street Journal

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By merging, Towers and Watson created the world’s biggest employee-benefits consultancy by revenue, displacing the Mercer unit of Marsh & McLennan Cos.

Jan 05 2010

Continua

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Continua Health Alliance today announced the first end-to-end connected health solution based on the Continua architecture

Jan 05 2010

Meaningful Use Rules Draft Issued

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HHS released its draft version of the rules relating to meaningful use of electronic health information systems and the criteria for which providers will receive incentive payments. Provider organizations did…

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