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University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 01-28-2005
Twenty orthopedic surgeons in five states delivered the same awful news to Melissa Arnold: The best way to fix her young son Adam's short thigh bone was to cut off his leg and fit him with a prosthesis. . ....
Nearly two years after its debut, Maryland's online report card on hospital performance appears to be fulfilling a key mission: driving hospitals to improve. . . The Baltimore Sun - January 28, 2005 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.md.hospitals28jan28,1,7204644.story?coll=bal-health-headlines...
Matching a national trend, spending for health care in Maryland moderated in 2003, rising 8.4 percent after two straight years of double-digit increases. . . The Baltimore Sun - January 28, 2005 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-bz.health28jan28,1,993496.story?coll=bal-health-headlines...
Overweight people have a tendency to sit, while lean ones have trouble holding still and spend two hours more a day on their feet, pacing around and fidgeting, researchers are reporting in findings published today. . . The New York...
A medical journal published a study Tuesday of coronary disease related to the anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx after withholding the report because the researcher said he had been threatened by superiors at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. . . CNN.com...
The medical journal BMJ Thursday retracted and apologized for the claim it made early this month that internal industry documents it received from an anonymous source had gone "missing" during a 1994 product liability suit against Eli Lilly and Co.,...
President Bush laid out a plan yesterday for reducing the nation's spiraling health care costs, proposing tax credits to encourage expansion of health savings accounts and calling for allowing small businesses to pool together for health coverage across state lines....
In a novel attempt to extend health coverage to uninsured workers, 60 large employers are joining together to sponsor an array of low-cost health insurance options. The program, to begin in the fall, will be offered for at least two...
For decades, people with juvenile diabetes have been told that controlling their blood sugar is all they can do to prevent nerve damage that can lead to the amputation of a foot or leg. But a large new British study...
Production of a generic version of the most widely used combination of AIDS drugs could begin as early as March or April and expand treatment for patients in 13 African countries, the company said Wednesday. . . Foxnews.com - January...
Microsoft founder Bill Gates's foundation and the government of Norway yesterday gave grants of more than $1 billion to immunize children in poor countries against common diseases -- a blockbuster philanthropic gesture intended to save hundreds of thousands of lives...
A majority of the patients who were persuaded to use prescription arthritis drugs such as Celebrex and Vioxx would have done just as well on older, cheaper medications and would have avoided the potential risks of heart attack and stroke...
Top Democratic lawmakers blasted Maryland's insurance regulator yesterday for allowing HMOs to pass a 2 percent tax increase on to consumers without a close examination of industry finances. . . The Baltimore Sun - January 26, 2005 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-md.insure26jan26,1,6035184.story?coll=bal-health-headlines...
Eight of the nation's largest technology companies, including I.B.M., Microsoft and Oracle, have agreed to embrace open, nonproprietary technology standards as the software building blocks for a national health information network. . . The New York Times - January 26,...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration tentatively approved on Tuesday a generic and less costly version of one of the most widely used combination of AIDS drugs, an action that is expected to expand AIDS treatment in the developing world....
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