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University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 10-20-2004
A study on emergency rooms disputes the common wisdom that the poor and uninsured are filling them up. More than 80 percent of patients seen in emergency rooms have health insurance and a usual source of health care, such as...
More than a quarter of the phenomenal growth in health care spending over the past 15 years is attributable to obesity, Emory University researchers reported yesterday. . . The Washington Post - October 20, 2004 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46123-2004Oct19.html...
A group of legislators - including Republicans and Democrats, senators and delegates -threw their weight yesterday behind a malpractice reform package backed by MedChi, the state medical society, adding momentum to the drive to find a solution to soaring insurance...
Drug maker Aventis-Pasteur has found an additional 2.6 million doses of flu vaccine that it will deliver to the United States in January, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said Tuesday. . . CNN.com - October 20, 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/19/bush.flu/index.html...
A Denver hospital abruptly changed course on Tuesday and agreed to perform a kidney transplant that would be the first such procedure in the United States using an organ found on a private Web site. . . CNN.com - October...
Menopausal women had more sex and were happier about it when using an experimental hormone patch hailed by some as a possible female equivalent of Viagra. . . CNN.com - October 19, 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/10/19/femaleviagra.ap/index.html...
With concern growing that a popular new class of arthritis medicine might increase a patient's risk of heart attack and stroke, the maker of Celebrex -- one of the most widely sold drugs in the world -- announced yesterday that...
. . .Logue volunteered for an experiment designed to test whether taking a pill immediately after a terrorizing experience might reduce the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The study is part of a promising but controversial field of research...
Canada might have more than 2 million doses of surplus flu vaccine to help the United States battle a serious shortage, health officials said yesterday, although U.S. officials have cautioned that imports were unlikely to be licensed in time for...
Johns Hopkins epidemiologists explained last night their plans to study a possible cancer cluster in the Anne Arundel County Fire Department at a meeting with firefighters in Millersville. . . The Baltimore Sun - October 19, 2004 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-ar.cluster19oct19,1,3313771.story?coll=bal-health-headlines...
The University of Maryland Medical Center yesterday named Jeffrey A. Rivest as its president and chief executive officer. . . The Baltimore Sun - October 19, 2004 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-bz.rivest19oct19,1,123176.story?coll=bal-health-headlines...
In February 1999, Dr. Frank Fisher, a general practitioner in Shasta County, Calif., was arrested by agents from the California state attorney general's office and charged with drug trafficking and murder. . . The New York Times - October 19,...
CMS has announced coding changes that would ameliorate previously announced pay cuts to oncologists for administering cancer drugs. The coding changes will restore about $100 million of the proposed $500 million in payment cuts previously announced. . . The American...
Two studies have found a higher risk of cardiovascular events among coronary artery bypass graft surgery patients taking valdecoxib (Bextra). . . The American College of Physicians - October 19, 2004 http://www.acponline.org/weekly/?hp#bextra...
Medicaid spending accounted for 21.4 percent of states’ budgets last year, nearly matching spending on elementary and secondary education (21.7%), according to an annual report on state expenditures released yesterday by the National Association of State Budget Officers. . ....
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