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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.

Feb 01 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Financially strapped governors, Congress and the Obama administration could be headed for a showdown over the Medicaid health care program that covers 48 million poor, disabled and elderly people nationwide.

Feb 01 2011

Washington Post

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Seeking health information is the third-most-prevalent activity among American Internet users

Feb 01 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Knee-replacement patients who undergo telerehabilitation–an Internet-based postoperative rehabilitation program that can be conducted from home–experience the same – sometimes better — results as those who undergo traditional rehabilitation

Feb 01 2011

LA Times

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Making an appointment for the emergency room a growing trend

Jan 31 2011

Bloomberg

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U.S. President Barack Obama lost the second of four court challenges to his health-care law as a federal judge in Florida ruled that the measure went beyond the power of Congress to regulate commerce.