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May 14 2010

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WHY EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE ONLY SEEMS SIMPLE: The evidence isn’t always stellar // Guidelines don’t account for patient differences // Experts often disagree about the facts

May 14 2010

Bloomberg

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Gene-test kits that promise to tell consumers their risk of Alzheimer’s disease, breast cancer and numerous illnesses must be approved by regulators

May 14 2010

Bloomberg

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Healthscope Ltd., Australia’s second- largest hospital owner, received a buyout offer from a private equity group valuing the company at about $1.6 billion

May 14 2010

Washington Post

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Attorneys general and governors for 20 states won’t be alone in their legal challenge to health care overhaul – the nation’s most influential small business lobby is going to court with them.

May 14 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The proposal by the Hospital Association of Southern California to create a joint medical foundation is just one sign of the growing alignment between doctors and hospitals, an accelerating trend

May 14 2010

Boston Globe

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Republicans have opened an assault on the nomination of Harvard professor Donald Berwick to lead the huge agency that runs Medicare and Medicaid, calling Berwick an advocate for “rationing’’ health care.

May 14 2010

Washington Post

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Shares of four home health care providers tumbled after the Senate Finance Committee raised questions about patient visits to deliberately trigger higher Medicare reimbursements

May 14 2010

Bloomberg

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Medicine’s makers cut U.S. tax bills by a technique known as transfer pricing, a method that carves billions a year from the U.S. Treasury

May 14 2010

Smartphones and Health Care

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The California HealthCare Foundation put out a study on consumers' and providers' use of smartphones in regard to health care. The study has a number of useful statistics and identifies…

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May 13 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The Senate Finance Committee launched an investigation into the practices of Amedisys Inc. and three other companies that provide in-home therapy visits reimbursed by Medicare.

May 13 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Microscopic robots made from DNA molecules can walk, follow instructions and work together to assemble simple products on an atomic-scale assembly line, mimicking the machinery of living cells

May 13 2010

Washington Post

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The government says it recovered $2.5 billion in overpayments for the Medicare trust fund last year as the administration focused attention on fraud enforcement in the health care industry.

May 13 2010

New York Times

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The likelihood that patients in the United States may some day receive heart defibrillators that can operate without electrical wires connected to their hearts has moved a step closer

May 13 2010

ideaworks

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A tiny silicon chip that works a bit like a nose may one day detect dangerous airborne chemicals and alert emergency responders through the cell phone network

May 13 2010

Washington Times

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Critics who claim that Congress violated the U.S. Constitution by requiring Americans to carry health insurance are “flatly wrong,” the Obama administration said