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Feb 02 2011

PR Newswire

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Physician Oncology Services and Vantage Oncology announced that they will merge to create one of the nation’s preeminent networks of outpatient radiation oncology centers of excellence.

Feb 02 2011

Bloomberg

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The Senate will take a test vote as early as today on Republicans’ bid to repeal the U.S. health- care overhaul, President Barack Obama’s biggest domestic achievement.

Feb 02 2011

Wall Street Journal

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The Florida opinion casts a dark shadow over ObamaCare until the Supreme Court issues a final ruling on the matter.

Feb 02 2011

US News

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End-of-life care facilities run for profit are more likely to have patients who require less-skilled care on the part of the hospice, or patients who need longer times in hospice care, research reveals.

Feb 02 2011

Washington Post

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Most insurers, hospital executives and state officials expect they’ll keep carrying out President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul even after a federal judge cast its fate in doubt by declaring all of it unconstitutional.

Feb 02 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Health-care companies said they were pressing forward with plans to implement the federal health-overhaul law, despite a new legal ruling that declared it to be unconstitutional.

Feb 02 2011

BioPortfolio

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Elsevier, the leading global publisher of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, announced today that it acquired the oncology portfolio of journals previously published by CIG Media Group LP

Feb 02 2011

McClatchy

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Two Senate Republicans Tuesday aim to introduce a measure that would allow states to opt out of the federal health care law, a day after a federal judge declared President Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement unconstitutional.

Feb 01 2011

Wall Street Journal

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A federal judge ruled that Congress violated the Constitution by requiring Americans to buy insurance as part of the health overhaul passed last year, and said the entire law “must be declared void.”

Feb 01 2011

CT Mirror

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This week, a half-dozen House Republicans unveiled a one-paragraph piece of legislation to dismantle the IPAB (Independent Payment Advisory Board), well before it ever gets going. And unlike most other Republican repeal initiatives, this GOP effort might attract some Democratic company.