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Mar 29 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A three-month-old baby suffering from shortness of breath recently was checked into a small hospital in the Haitian capital. A radiologist at work in his New York office diagnosed that the child’s lungs were collapsing.

Mar 29 2010

Washington Post

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In 2006, CMS tried to limit unjustified billing in the ultra-high categories. But the effort backfired when nursing home operators found a loophole that made it easier to put residents in those categories.

Mar 29 2010

Bloomberg

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Donald M. Berwick, a Harvard University scholar and long-time critic of U.S. health care, will be thrust into the political fight over the overhaul law as President Barack Obama’s choice to run Medicare and Medicaid.

Mar 29 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Primary care physicians already are in short supply in parts of the country, and the landmark health overhaul that will bring them millions more newly insured patients in the next few years promises extra strain.

Mar 29 2010

New York Times

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The U.S. drug industry fended off price curbs and other hefty restrictions in the health care law even as it prepares for plenty of new business when an estimated 32 million uninsured Americans gain health coverage.

Mar 29 2010

BusinessWeek

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Shares of inVentiv Health Inc. continued their climb in Monday premarket trading after the company confirmed that it has been approached by a potential buyer.

Mar 29 2010

Washington Times

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As governors begin to sort through the murky details, they’re quickly realizing this albatross is worse than originally feared.

Mar 29 2010

Bloomberg

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The White House disputed arguments that the health-care legislation signed by President Barack Obama may cost jobs and increase costs to employers.

Mar 26 2010

Financial Times

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Open standards and interoperability are key to mobile health offerings scaling in developing markets, Ericsson told the Financial Times in a recent interview

Mar 26 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Up to a third of breast cancer cases in Western countries could be avoided if women ate less and exercised more, researchers at a conference said, renewing a sensitive debate about how lifestyle factors affect the disease.