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Apr 06 2010

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Intel’s Eric Dishman, the Director of Health Innovation and Policy for Intel’s Digital Health Group, presented on home health monitoring devices and services (video)

Apr 06 2010

RTT News

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Medical device maker CareFusion Corp announced that it has signed deal to acquire privately-owned Medegen Inc. for $225 million

Apr 06 2010

Washington Post

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Online resources for information on health-care reform – here are some Web sites worth keeping an eye on

Apr 05 2010

Business Wire

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Merge Healthcare completed a private placement of preferred and common stock totaling $41.75 million, which is specified for use in funding a portion of the proposed acquisition of AMICAS

Apr 05 2010

New York Times

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Congress with little fanfare approved a set of wide-ranging public initiatives to prevent disease and encourage healthy behavior

Apr 05 2010

Wall Street Journal

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New work by a trio of economists, circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research, suggests that reform could produce a significant increase in demand for health care from previously uninsured young adults

Apr 05 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Patent expirations have been a headache for Big Pharma in recent years, eroding revenues and causing many stocks to trail the broad market. But generic-drug manufacturers have thrived

Apr 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

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As insurers wrestle with the changes coming from the federal health overhaul in Washington, they also face challenges at the state level from regulators seeking to head off big premium hikes.

Apr 02 2010

Bloomberg

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Sales of prescription drugs in the U.S. rose 5.1 percent last year, a rebound from 2008, led by demand for antidepressants and cancer medicines.

Apr 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

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It’s no joke for doctors that today marks the day that Medicare’s 21% reimbursement pay cuts were to go into effect. Congress left for its Easter recess without voting to delay the scheduled April 1 start of lower payments to docs.

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