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19.08.10 - India has said that it will not compromise on issues related to health and people’s right to medicine in the bilateral trade and investment agreement being negotiated with the European Union.
Aug. 19 - CDC sees rise in shots against meningitis, whooping cough
14.08.10 - Faced with the need to review insurance rates and enforce a panoply of new rights granted to consumers, states are scrambling to make sure they have the necessary legal authority to carry out the responsibilities being placed on them by President Obama’s health care law.
03.08.2010 - Insurers and ratings groups post information to help patients choose doctors
July 13, 2010 - A new domestic AIDS policy rolled out by the White House on Tuesday looks for new ways to educate people about the deadly and incurable virus, from social media to “scientifically sound” school campaigns.
July 12, 2010 - The American Cancer Society, in its 2010 report on facts and figures, says while cancer remains a major public health problem in our country, death rates are still dropping.
June 21, 2010 - It appears that prescription drug abuse has become almost as common as illegal narcotic abuse when it comes to trips to the emergency rooms of hospitals across the United States.
June 14, 2010 - We fret about airport scanners, power lines, cell phones and even microwaves. It’s true that we get too much radiation. But it’s not from those sources — it’s from too many medical tests.
June 13, 2010 - Rep. Mike Quigley is leading an effort to re-examine what he calls “outdated and discriminatory” restrictions on blood donations by gay men.
June 10, 2010 - Thousands of nurses in Minneapolis and St. Paul walked off the job today in what union organizers there call the largest nursing strike in U.S. history.
June 8, 2010 - By the time women reach 44 years old, roughly 85 percent have given birth. Yet even though pregnancy and childbirth are such commonplace events, health insurance coverage and support services to keep mothers and babies healthy are often seriously deficient.
May 30, 2010 - Alicia Coleman was born relatively healthy, her mother said, even though she was three months’ premature and weighed little more than 2 pounds at birth.
May 17, 2010 - Dr. Harold E. Varmus, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist and former director of the National Institutes of Health, will become director of the National Cancer Institute, the White House announced Monday.
May 18, 2010 - Ball Memorial Hospital paid $1.9 million to settle a government investigation into allegations that it was among 20 hospitals around the country to overcharge Medicare by keeping patients overnight for a “minimally invasive” back surgery that should have been performed as an out-patient procedure.
WASHINGTON, May 11 (Reuters) - U.S. health officials are encouraging physicians to report misleading promotions from pharmaceutical salespeople who pitch medicines in doctors’ offices or over dinner.
26 April 2010 - home to the one-sixth of the world’s population living with HIV - today unveiled an ambitious campaign to prevent and treat the virus, a move hailed by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
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