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- UnitedHealthcare Creates Adult National Cancer Care Registry with Data and Analysis to Support Oncologists in the Fight 9 Feb 2010 15:50 GMT
... MINNEAPOLIS - (BUSINESS WIRE) - UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) company, launched its Oncology ... and claims information creates a coordinated electronic medical record of a patient's care and then ... CA; Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center | Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA; Duke ...
- Health Reform Failure Will Ignite Health Mergers 9 Feb 2010 05:12 GMT
... merge companies to maneuver through a U.S. health-care landscape marked by rising medical expenses and the loss of millions of ... 19, when Republican Scott Brown won the Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat held for 47 years ...
- Health insurer Centene sees 4th - quarter profit climb 11 percent, as membership grows 9 Feb 2010 14:18 GMT
... fourth-quarter profit climbed 11 percent as the health insurer picked up more members in all ... company enrolled more than 27,000 people in Massachusetts alone during the fourth quarter and landed ... driven by membership growth and rate increases. Medical costs, the insurer's largest expense, rose 22 ...
- Massachusetts' Top Two Youth Volunteers Selected in 15th Annual National Awards Program 9 Feb 2010 16:13 GMT
... 13, of North Dighton today were named Massachusetts' top two youth volunteers for 2010 by ... three years at an adult day care health center, where she works with senior citizens ... that has raised $10,000 for the American Cancer Society. Bianca and her sister made thousands ...
- Bipartisanship unlikely at health summit -- GOP pushes alternatives -- Sebelius: Meeting will speed reform -- Antitrust exemption bill likely on House floor soon 9 Feb 2010 11:10 GMT
... Bipartisanship unlikely at health summit -- GOP pushes alternatives -- Sebelius: ... their defeat in a Senate race in Massachusetts last month.” , reports Roll Call’s David ... plans to cover patients who have pre-existing medical conditions, the CEO said. ‘We’re entering probably ...
- Lyme disease activists take their battle to the Legislature 9 Feb 2010 06:53 GMT
... Monday's meeting of the Senate Committee on Health, Housing and Family Security got an earful ... of 8,000 physicians. The society finds no medical evidence to support the use of long-term ... Association, in a telephone interview. Bills in Massachusetts and Virginia are under consideration. Lyme infections ...
- UnitedHealthcare Creates Adult National Cancer Care Registry with Data and Analysis to Support Oncologists in the Fight against Cancer 9 Feb 2010 15:01 GMT
... The OCA electronic medical record delivers coordinated patient information to the ... results with 12,000 additional oncologists within its health care provider network in an effort to ... ; Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center | Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA; Duke ...
- Marin Voice: Fix Congress then health care 9 Feb 2010 15:41 GMT
... unswervingly committed to the "public option" in health reform. As fellow progressives have admitted, this "public ... rationed care and limited access to cutting-edge medicine in a system where bureaucrats would come ... was a mandate from the people of Massachusetts telling our representatives to go back to ...
- Obama's health care summit: Just for show? 9 Feb 2010 00:25 GMT
... Obama's televised dialogue with Republican lawmakers on health care, promised for later this month, has ... The election of Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts changed the balance of power in the ... could also follow through with curbs on medical malpractice litigation. Although he agrees with Republicans ...
- Views mixed on Obama's TV health care summit 9 Feb 2010 06:14 GMT
... Views mixed on Obama’s TV health care summit By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar - Associated ... The election of Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts changed the balance of power in the ... could also follow through with curbs on medical malpractice litigation. Although he agrees with Republicans ...
- Health summit: For show? 9 Feb 2010 06:36 GMT
... Obama's televised dialogue with Republican lawmakers on health care, promised for later this month, has ... The election of Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts changed the balance of power in the ... could also follow through with curbs on medical malpractice litigation. Although he agrees with Republicans ...
- Obama's health care summit: For show? 9 Feb 2010 09:31 GMT
... Obama's televised dialogue with Republican lawmakers on health care, promised for later this month, has ... The election of Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts changed the balance of power in the ... could also follow through with curbs on medical malpractice litigation. Although he agrees with Republicans ...
- Glaucoma Drugs May Play Role in Longer Life 9 Feb 2010 15:32 GMT
... drugs themselves or from the individuals' overall health or even their access to health care ... to glaucoma care have less access to medical care in general." The new study is ... Pasquale, director of the glaucoma service at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Hospital. A number of ...
- GEORGIA REPUBLICAN DELEGATION SAYS STATE CAN'T AFFORD DEMOCRAT'S MEDICAID EXPANSION 9 Feb 2010 04:32 GMT
... expressing concerns about a proposed expansion of Medicaid, as part of a government takeover of health care. In the letter, the G-7 state, ... any special backroom deals like Nebraska, Louisiana, Massachusetts doesn’t mean Georgia’s children and families should ...
- GOP: Back to drawing board on health care 9 Feb 2010 05:12 GMT
... a new round of bipartisan talks on health care, arguing that the current Democratic legislation ... after Republicans won a Senate election in Massachusetts last month that gave the party the ... subsidies, the bill proposed cutting Medicare and Medicaid and imposing a 40 percent tax on ...
- Obama's health care summit: Just for public show? 9 Feb 2010 10:14 GMT
... for people who can't afford to buy health insurance. Republicans say now is not the ... The election of Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts changed the balance of power in the ... could also follow through with curbs on medical malpractice litigation. Although he agrees with Republicans ...
- Health care talks to be televised 9 Feb 2010 19:01 GMT
... was determined to keep pushing for a health care bill. Obama will not "let this ... in as the new U.S. senator from Massachusetts last week, leaving the Democrats one vote ... focused on individual issues, such as limiting medical malpractice lawsuits. Democrats, however, say that spiraling ...
- Panelists say not to give up on health care reform bill 9 Feb 2010 09:03 GMT
... Health care reform has dropped on President Barack Obama’s ... a doctor specializing in gastroenterology and internal medicine, said with Republicans having a little more ...
- Trumka: Time for Hill to Get Health Reform Right 9 Feb 2010 06:16 GMT
... Members can turn down the heat on health care reform. We learned last week that health ... the House. The Senate bill leaves the Medicare prescription drug "doughnut hole" wide open, fails ... sign into law. As we saw in Massachusetts just last month, America's working people are ...
- Medical Alliance Services & nFinity Medical Consulting Partner to Offer Turn-Key Program 9 Feb 2010 07:58 GMT
... Medical Alliance Services, a U.S. medical technology distribution ... in 1994. He received his Doctor of Medicine Degree at the University of Texas Southwestern ... 1988 at Boston Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Burns served as president of the ...
- Medical Alliance Services & nFinity Medical Consulting Partner 9 Feb 2010 10:55 GMT
... Dallas, TX, February 09, 2010 -- Medical Alliance Services, a U.S. medical technology distribution ... in 1994. He received his Doctor of Medicine Degree at the University of Texas Southwestern ... 1988 at Boston Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Burns served as president of the ...
- Rep. Jay Inslee on health reform: 'Finish the kitchen' | E.J. Dionne / Syndicated columnist 9 Feb 2010 00:40 GMT
... If President Obama gets to sign a health-reform bill, as I believe he will, one ... held after Republican Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts sent Inslee's colleagues into paroxysms of dismay, ... voters; and getting rid of the special Medicaid subsidy deal for Nebraska, which just about ...
- College leaders, mental health advocates gather for suicide prevention strategies at Rutgers University 9 Feb 2010 01:52 GMT
... News from New Jersey College leaders, mental health advocates gather for suicide prevention strategies at Rutgers ... director of mental health services for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told the audience that ... said results from a chemical imbalance, to diabetes. Campbell, who said he has long dealt ...
- Obama Asks Republicans to Health-Care Talks 9 Feb 2010 05:12 GMT
... restart a stalled overhaul of the U.S. health-care system by inviting Republican and Democratic lawmakers ... Democrats lost a special Senate election in Massachusetts, depriving them of the 60th seat they ... away” from his effort to overhaul the medical-care system. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats ...
- E.J. Dionne Jr.: Finish health care reform (Yesterday) 9 Feb 2010 10:54 GMT
... E.J. Dionne Jr.: Finish health care reform Voters won't support Democrats if ... held after Republican Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts sent Mr. Inslee's colleagues into paroxysms of ... voters, and getting rid of the special Medicaid subsidy deal for Nebraska, which just about ...
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