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Health experts: Routine PSA tests for prostate cancer not good for healthCBS News(CBS News) A top panel of health experts called the US Preventive Services Task Force says that men should no longer get routine prostate-specific antigen (PSA) tests to screen for prostate cancer. The reason, it says, is that the tests may lead [...]
Discover Magazine
Infections Cause 1 in 6 Cancer Cases WorldwideOccupational Health and SafetyHelicobacter pylori, hepatitis B and C viruses, and human papillomaviruses were responsible for 1.9 million cases of mainly gastric, liver, and cervix uteri cancers. Around 2 million cancer cases each year are caused by infectious agents, according to …1 In 6 Cancers Around The [...]
KGMI
More than quarter of US adults lacked health insurance in 2011, study findsDenver PostBy Noam N. Levey WASHINGTON — With the future of the health care law emerging as a major campaign issue this fall, a new survey has found that more than a quarter of adults ages 19 to 64 in the United States [...]
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com
US Health Secretary: women unfairly affected by health insurance policyK-State CollegianBy Sean Kirkby Badger Herald, U. Wisconsin via UWIRE In a discussion held Tuesday at the University of Wisconsin, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius heard stories from women who have benefited from the reforms brought about by the …New Model [...]
TucsonSentinel.com
Obama eats his words on health care lawTucsonSentinel.comPresident Obama is being forced to modify his absurdly wrong claim that it would be "unprecedented" for the Supreme Court to strike down the new health care law. Obama, April 2: Ultimately, I'm confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would …Is this conservative judicial activism?PoliticoObama [...]
Myjoyonline.com
What GOP must do if health care law overturnedCNNBy Ford C. O'Connell, Special to CNN Tea Party members protesting President Obama's health care law outside the Supreme Court on March 27. Ford C. O'Connell: If the law is struck down, GOP must be ready to present an alternative Editor's note: Ford C.Obama respects Supreme Court's [...]
USA TODAY
Feds respond to Houston judge questioning Obama on health careHouston ChronicleBy Mike Tolson In responding to the request of a federal appeals judge in Houston, US Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday affirmed his department's belief in the time-honored concept of judicial review and said nothing in President Barack Obama's …Turn-of-century bakery invoked in [...]
CTV.ca
Sense of Peril for Health Law Gives Insurers PauseNew York TimesAs the Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of the federal health care law, one option that had seemed unthinkable to its designers and supporters now seems at least possible: that the court could strike down the entire law.Healing Health Care Policy in GeorgiaGwinnett GazetteJustice Kennedy's [...]
Politico
A Health Law at Risk Gives Insurers PauseNew York TimesAs the Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of the federal health care law, one option that had seemed unthinkable to its designers and supporters now seems at least possible: that the court could strike down the entire law.Supreme Court audio and transcripts:ModernHealthcare.comWhat Supreme Court? Obama defends [...]
ABC News
Health Exchanges Have Fans in Some StatesWall Street JournalBy LOUISE RADNOFSKY A handful of states say they are planning to press ahead and voluntarily implement a key part of the 2010 federal health-care law even if it is wiped out by the Supreme Court. The Obama administration's law faced three days of …Obama defends [...]
CBC.ca
On Day 3, Justices Weigh What-Ifs of Health RulingNew York TimesWASHINGTON — The day after the Supreme Court suggested that President Obama's health care law might be in danger of being held unconstitutional, the justices on Wednesday turned their attention to the practical consequences and political realities of …Court takes health care case behind closed [...]
The Associated Press
Justices Ask: Can Health Law Stand If Mandate Fails?NPRLinda Dorr (left) and Keli Carender chant along with other demonstrators in front of the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Linda Dorr (left) and Keli Carender chant along with other demonstrators in front of the Supreme Court on Wednesday.Supreme Court's health-care ruling could deal dramatic blow [...]
CBS News
Analysis: Health ruling looms small in Obama raceCBS NewsWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's much-anticipated ruling on health care, expected in late June, may have one surprising outcome: a modest impact on President Barack Obama's re-election bid, even though he is intimately associated with the challenged …Court: What's Left Of Health Law Without Mandate?NPRLawyers arguing [...]
CBS News
Why economists like the health insurance mandateCBS News(MoneyWatch) The Supreme Court Tuesday hears arguments on the key provision of President Obama's health care overhaul legislation — the constitutionality of the individual mandate. To opponents, such as GOP Presidential candidate Rick Santorum, …Justices take up heart of health care overhaul lawBoston.comLawyers arguing health care in [...]
CBC.ca
Supreme Court takes up key health care law issue: Can the gov't force you to …Washington PostWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is taking up the key question in the challenge to President Barack Obama's historic health care overhaul: Can the government force people to carry insurance or pay a penalty? The justices hear extended arguments [...]
USA TODAY
Overall health, not age, key to Cheney's transplant successUSA TODAYBy Liz Szabo, USA TODAY CHICAGO – Former vice president Dick Cheney may be 71, but he's far from the oldest person to receive a heart transplant, say experts who note that older people today are more likely to be healthy enough to benefit.Cheney doing [...]
Myjoyonline.com
Poor Health Literacy Predicts Earlier Death in EnglandMedscapeMarch 17, 2012 — About a third of older adults in England may have difficulty reading and understanding basic written health instructions and may be at greater risk of dying than people who are more functionally literate in health information, …Poor literacy 'increases early death risk for elderly'BBC [...]
Grand Forks Herald
Health reform coverage cost falls slightlyCNNBy Jeanne Sahadi @CNNMoney March 13, 2012: 6:51 PM ET The Congressional Budget Office now estimates that the health reform law will reduce the number of uninsured by 30 million by 2016. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The cost and promised savings of health …Health insurance will cost more [...]
Forbes
Boston Scientific To Acquire Cameron Health, Inc For $1.35 BillionMedical News TodayBoston Scientific Corporation says it is going forward with its option to take over (buy) Cameron Health for $1.35 billion which will be done in separate payments (details below). Cameron Health is a private company located in San Clemente, California, …Boston Scientific to Buy [...]
Health program losing federal funds, clinicsAtlanta Journal ConstitutionBy ANGELA K. BROWN AP FORT WORTH, Texas — Delia Henry was tired but had no idea her blood sugar was high when she went to Planned Parenthood for her annual gynecological exam. The clinic referred her to a doctor, who diagnosed her with diabetes.and more »
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