No Prescription: Florida, Hawaii Offer Residents Prescription Drug Discount Cards

Florida, Hawaii Offer Residents Prescription Drug Discount Cards - Kaiser network.org

Florida, Hawaii Offer Residents Prescription Drug Discount Cards
Kaiser network.org - 6 hours ago
Summaries of two articles about prescription drug discount cards in Florida and Hawaii appear below. Florida: Gov. Charlie Crist (R) on Thursday announced a statewide prescription drug discount program for residents younger than age 60 with incomes ...
Florida rolls out discount drug card Orlando Sentinel
State program offers discounts on prescriptions to 4 million Palm Beach Post
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Weight Loss Surgery May Help Less Severely Obese (HealthDay)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Dec. 21 (HealthDay News) --The morbidly obese may not be the only people who should be eligible for bariatric surgery to lose weight, U.S. researchers report.
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Legislature to tackle loan crisis - Los Angeles Times

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Legislature to tackle loan crisis
Los Angeles Times - 14 hours ago
By Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer The leader of the state Senate on Thursday joined a growing legion of state and federal officials calling to protect Californians from losing their homes and to ban lending practices that helped create ...
California Health Care Reform Passes Major Hurdle HR Magazine
Governor touts health care reform plan in Union City Inside Bay Area
Black Voice News - NBC 11.com - The Desert Sun - Los Angeles Wave Newspapers
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7 Medical Myths That Might Have Your Doctor Duped - U.S. News & World Report

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7 Medical Myths That Might Have Your Doctor Duped
U.S. News & World Report - 3 hours ago
By Adam Voiland Medical myths abound. For Aaron Carroll, a pediatrician at the Regenstrief Institute in Indianapolis, the last straw was hearing an ominous radio report that warned parents that strangers might try to poison their kids on Halloween.
Seven Cherished Medical Beliefs: All Called Myths MedPage Today
Medical Myths About What's Good And Bad For You Medical News Today
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Beef from Safeway may have had salmonella: USDA - Reuters

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Beef from Safeway may have had salmonella: USDA
Reuters - 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Agriculture Department said fresh ground beef products contaminated with multi-drug resistant Salmonella may have been ground and later sold at Safeway Inc stores in five states.
Some Safeway beef may contain salmonella BusinessWeek
• Safeway Warns Some Of Its Beef May Be Tainted Consumer Affairs
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Couple who ran Haysville medical clinic held without bail - Kansas.com

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Couple who ran Haysville medical clinic held without bail
Kansas.com - 1 hour ago
A Haysville doctor and his wife, facing 34 federal charges, were ordered to remain in jail without bond this afternoon. US District Magistrate Don Bostwick ruled that Stephen J. Schneider and his wife, Linda, were both flight risks, ...
Prosecutors: Haysville clinic was a "pill mill" MSNBC
Kansas doctor accused of illegally prescribing drugs Kansas City Star
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Genentech, docs resolve dispute on Avastin eye use - Reuters

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Genentech, docs resolve dispute on Avastin eye use
Reuters - 13 hours ago
By Kim Dixon WASHINGTON, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Genentech Inc (DNA.N: Quote, Profile, Research) has resolved a dispute with doctors over the use of its cancer drug Avastin, a much less costly alternative to the biotech company's Lucentis for macular ...
A Compromise on Use of Avastin to Treat Eye Disease New York Times
Did Genentech Back Down or Backpedal? CNBC
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Contaminated Heparin Syringes Recalled - MedPage Today

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Contaminated Heparin Syringes Recalled
MedPage Today - 45 minutes ago
By Peggy Peck, Executive Editor, MedPage Today ANGIER, NC, Dec. 21 -- A lot of pre-filled heparin IV flush syringes found to be contaminated with Serratia marcescens has been recalled by a medical device company here.
21 Rush patients contract intravenous infection Chicago Tribune
Pre-filled syringes recalled Bradenton Herald
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Breast reconstruction often not discussed - Reuters

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Breast reconstruction often not discussed
Reuters - 6 hours ago
By Megan Rauscher NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women with breast cancer faced with treatment decisions are often not told by their surgeons about the possibility of breast reconstruction after a mastectomy, a study confirms.
Breast Cancer Surgeons Don't Discuss Reconstruction Options Atlanta Journal Constitution
Reconstruction Often Not Discussed Before Breast Cancer Surgery Cancer Consultants (press release)
EurekAlert (press release) - WCCO
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Time Runs Out for Transplant Teen - ABC News

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Time Runs Out for Transplant Teen
ABC News - 7 hours ago
Natalee Sarkisyan, a 17-year-old from Glendale, Calif., died Thursday just a few hours after Cigna Health Care, her medical insurer, approved what they previously had described as "too experimental" a procedure and the same day that dozens of ...
Teen's family plans to sue health insurer abc7.com
Teenager dies after insurance company balks at transplant The Carpetbagger Report
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