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Aug 12 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Avoidable medical errors added $19.5 billion to the nation’s healthcare bill in 2008.  The report lists the 10 most expensive errors in healthcare settings.

Aug 12 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Economic-stimulus funds for scientific research are becoming a political target for Republican skeptics who say they have identified some grants as evidence of wasteful spending.

Aug 12 2010

New York Times

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“Roadmap for America’s Future,” is an unusually austere proposal to vanquish the federal debt by, among other things, partly dismantling Social Security and Medicare as they currently exist

Aug 12 2010

USA Today

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True or false: The new health care law will cut Medicare benefits for seniors. It will slash Medicare payments to doctors. It will ration health care.

Aug 11 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The European Medicines Agency has agreed to make available reports on possible side effects of drugs it has on file

Aug 11 2010

New York Times

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A new generation of DNA tests for colon cancer seems likely to improve the detection both of cancers and of the precancerous polyps that precede them.

Aug 11 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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From a tiny eye telescope to microscopic health data on the surface of contact lenses to advances in cancer treatments, medical devices continue to get smaller and smaller

Aug 11 2010

Washington Post

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Aggressive, drug-resistant staph infections caught in hospitals or from medical treatment are becoming scarcer, another sign of progress in a prevention effort that has become a national public health priority

Aug 11 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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A second federal bill seeks to “clarify the application of EHR payment incentives” for multi-campus hospitals in the meaningful use subsidy requirements

Aug 11 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The $26 billion legislation provides $16 billion for Medicaid and $10 billion to avert teacher layoffs. It is funded by cutting some food-stamp payments that were raised by the stimulus bill, and by limiting the foreign tax credits

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Kevin RocheThe Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.

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