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Early Caesareans Pose Risks to Newborns
New York Times - 13 hours ago
By RONI CARYN RABIN More than one third of mothers who chose to undergo a repeat Caesarean section had their babies earlier than medical guidelines recommend, and the earlier the babies were born, the more likely they were to experience a medical ...
Early Planned C-Sections Put Baby at Risk WebMD
Early Repeat C-Sections Increase Risks, Study Finds Washington Post
Wall Street Journal - Reuters - BusinessWeek - CNN
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CDC investigating salmonella outbreak in 42 states
CNN - 19 hours ago
By Miriam Falco ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working with public health officials in 42 states to determine the cause of an outbreak of a particular type of salmonella called Typhimurium.
State tracking Salmonella outbreak Michigan Messenger
Illinois, 41 other states in salmonella outbreak The Associated Press
Chicago Tribune - The Union Leader - Reuters - Arizona Republic
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Patients off hook in emergency room fee dispute
San Francisco Chronicle - 5 hours ago
Emergency room doctors who think a patient's HMO has underpaid them can't bill the patient for the difference and must seek whatever redress they can from the health plan, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a big-money dispute in the medical ...
Ruling removes billing headache from emergency room visits Los Angeles Times
Court Limits Patient Billing for ER Care Wall Street Journal
AHN - Bizjournals.com - Sacramento Bee - Daily Breeze
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Lab sent out number of flawed Vitamin D test results
USA Today - 13 hours ago
By Mary Brophy Marcus, USA TODAY Quest's laboratories are scattered throughout the country, and in June 2008, when physicians started calling to question some patients' test results, the company began investigating the issue, says Wael Salameh, ...
Flawed Results on Some Vitamin D Tests WebMD
Quest says some vitamin D tests gave wrong result Reuters
New York Times - Bizjournals.com - The Associated Press
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Common Flu Strain Resistant to Popular Antiviral Drug
Washington Post - 11 hours ago
By Steven Reinberg THURSDAY, Jan. 8 (HealthDay News) -- The most common strain of flu this season is resistant to the popular antiviral drug Tamiflu, but government health officials said Thursday there is no reason to panic.
Flu thumbs nose at a virus-fighting drug News & Observer
Tamiflu-Resistant Flu Strain Circulating the US AHN
Houston Chronicle - Bloomberg - New York Times - InformationWeek
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Health care overhaul needn't break bank: study
Reuters - 1 hour ago
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - An analysis of proposals to overhaul US health care by President-elect Barack Obama and members of Congress suggests it is possible to insure all Americans without significantly raising total health spending.
Favoring universal health care Sonoma Index-Tribune
Community Health Care Forum airs issues and answers Morgan Messenger
Louisville Courier-Journal - Bizjournals.com - The New American - Las Vegas Sun
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Orexigen Falls After Weight-Loss Pill Fails to Meet FDA Goal
Bloomberg - 10 hours ago
By Rob Waters Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Orexigen Therapeutics Inc. fell 34 percent in Nasdaq extended trading after releasing study results on its Contrave obesity pill that failed to show enough difference between patients taking the drug and those taking ...
Orexigen drug shows 9.3 pct weight loss, shrs fall Reuters
Orexigen obesity drug reduces weight in study Forbes
San Diego Union Tribune - North County Times - San Diego Business Journal - TheStreet.com
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Teen Pregnancy Rate Is On the Rise
HealthNews - 1 hour ago
The number of teens having babies, as well as the rate in which they are having babies, is on the rise, with the highest teen birth rates being seen in the South and Southeast portions of the country.
Jackson County teen birth rate near nation-leading state numbers The Mississippi Press - gulflive.com
Teen birth rates up, but nothing to worry about Culture11
USA Today - U.S. News & World Report - WebMD
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FDA Backs Cholesterol Drug Vytorin
Washington Post - 11 hours ago
By Steven Reinberg THURSDAY, Jan. 8 (HealthDay News) -- After nearly a year of review, US health officials said Thursday that they supported the continued use of the controversial cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin.
US FDA backs Merck, Schering-Plough's Vytorin Reuters
FDA backs Vytorin after finishing study review The Associated Press
CNNMoney.com - MedPage Today - TheMedGuru - Philadelphia Inquirer
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Red Cross Blood Drive brings in 37 units at LeRoy on Dec. 30th
LeRoy Independent - 1 hour ago
Even though the Blood Drive at LeRoy didn't make goal, the Red Cross crew from the Cities was pleased with the number of donors and especially with the number of good units harvested during the bitterly cold day of Dec. 30.
Local Red Cross to shift blood processing to Cleveland News Sentinel
Red Cross Holds Emergency Blood Drive MSNBC
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal - Henderson Gleaner - Centre Daily Times - Cordele Dispatch
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