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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 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

May 13 2010

Bloomberg

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Cheerios are among the foods that should be held to the same scientific standards as pharmaceuticals when promoted as having health benefits, a report ordered by U.S. regulators said today.