Members of the GOP Doctors Caucus today issued the following statements in response to U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruling H.R. 3590, the Patient, Protection and Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional: Rep. Phil Gingrey, M.D., Co-Chair (GA-11): “The American people rejected the President’s health care plan last November, the U.S…
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Title: Health Tip: Watch For Barrett’s EsophagusCategory: Health NewsCreated: 1/31/2011 10:05:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 1/31/2011
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Title: Teens With Food Allergies May Feel Unsafe at SchoolCategory: Health NewsCreated: 1/28/2011 4:05:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 1/31/2011
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In a time of shrinking budgets, one University of Missouri professor believes that the current approach to juvenile crime is much too expensive to continue - and he has the numbers to prove it. Charles Borduin, a professor of psychological sciences in the MU College of Arts and Science finds that multisystemic therapy (MST) is […]
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University of Michigan researchers have uncovered molecular signals that regulate catch-up growth - the growth spurt that occurs when normal conditions are restored after a fetus, young animal or child has been ill, under stress or deprived of enough food or oxygen to grow properly. The results, published in the Feb…
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The Wall Street Journal details how the restaurant chain Chili’s is preparing for how its bottom line could be impacted by the health overhaul. Even so, The New York Times reports, a consulting firm concludes that current worries about the well-being of private health insurance are “misplaced…
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The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) announces its support of a new national registry for breast implants that will be compiled by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) in collaboration with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
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The North Shore-LIJ Health System Department of Radiation Medicine announced it is seeking patients with early-stage (confined to the organ) prostate cancer to participate in a Phase I Research study. Subjects must be newly diagnosed and considered lower risk, with a Gleason score of equal to or less than 7 and a PSA level […]
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Today, we begin this new weekly feature, which will provide a selection of thought-provoking articles from a variety of sources. If you have seen anything you think we should include, please let us know: KHNnews@kff.org, and please put “Worth Reading” in the subject line…
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The Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry (PCMD), University of Exeter, is one of 13 academic institutions and businesses across Europe to form a 6m euro research and analysis network, funded by the EU for a five-year period, which is designed to investigate the possible role of virus infection in the cause of type 1 […]
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