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Feb 22 2010

New York Times

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Hundreds of people taking Avandia, a controversial diabetes medicine, needlessly suffer heart attacks and heart failure each month

Feb 22 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Health care reform bills that were passed in late 2009 would exacerbate the same inefficiencies and perverse incentives that have led to the current situation

Feb 19 2010

EON

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Nautic Partners, LLC, a private equity firm with more than $2.5 billion of capital under management, today announced that it has completed a recapitalization of Healthcare Payment Specialists

Feb 19 2010

property-casualty.com

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Toronto-based Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited will acquire workers’ compensation insurer Zenith National Insurance Corp. in Woodland Hills, Calif., in a $1.4 billion cash deal

Feb 19 2010

MassHighTech

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Health care management software firm MedVentive Inc. has boosted a venture round from $4.9 million to $10 million, according to regulatory filings.

Feb 19 2010

mobihealthnews

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Survey of health care experts finds that new ‘Connected Health’ prevention could cut U.S. health care costs by up to 40 percent

Feb 19 2010

Wall Street Journal

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In a fresh advance for the burgeoning field of personalized medicine, researchers have developed a blood test based on the DNA of tumors that could help tailor treatment for individual cancer patients

Feb 19 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The proposed new edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders could place large swaths of the population under the umbrella of pathology

Feb 19 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it plans to implement new “safety controls” for a class of long-acting asthma drugs, largely by adding tougher warnings

Feb 19 2010

Bloomberg

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Obama is preparing to release a proposal to restart the health-care debate before a White House meeting next week – insurance company practices will be a focus of the talks

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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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