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Apr 20 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

So-called targeted therapies are only as good as tests to find their protein targets. And while most patients do not yet know it, those tests can be surprisingly unreliable.

Apr 20 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

With hospitals discharging patients after ever-shorter stays, more people are recovering and continuing post-operative care, or treating chronic conditions, with sophisticated medical equipment at home.

Apr 20 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The individual mandate was created was to attract as many healthy people as possible to the individual market to offset the demands of the many sick people who will be buying in – yet no one really knows which way people struggling in a tough economy will go

Apr 20 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Drug companies sharply raised prices last year, ahead of increased rebates they must pay to Medicaid and other expenses tied to the federal health overhaul passed last month.

Apr 20 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

There’s mounting evidence and support among cardiologists that moderation in the battle against heart disease can often achieve results that are at least as good as aggressive tactics.

Apr 20 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

In Effort to Limit C-Sections, Two Methods Yield Different Results on Staten Island

Apr 20 2010

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A lung cancer screening technique promoted by some patient advocates leads to a false diagnosis of the disease in about 33 percent of patients after two annual tests, researchers said.

Apr 20 2010

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Drug sales may grow at least 5 percent worldwide in each year through 2014 as increasing demand in developing countries offsets price drops tied to generic competition

Apr 20 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Doctors are increasingly prescribing medications electronically, abandoning the traditional paper scripts that can result in drug errors due to hard-to-read writing or coverage denials by a patient’s insurer.

Apr 20 2010

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The Food and Drug Administration is planning an unprecedented effort to gradually reduce the salt consumed each day by Americans

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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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