Germs lurk in office kitchens, break rooms
(HealthDay) -- Office kitchens and break rooms are germ "hotspots," and sink and microwave handles in these areas are the dirtiest surfaces touched by office workers on a daily basis, according to a new study.
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May 23, 2012 |
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Fate of 'uninsurables' hinges on Supreme Court
(AP) -- Cancer patient Kathy Watson voted Republican in 2008 and believes the government has no right telling Americans to get health insurance. Nonetheless, she says she'd be dead if it weren't for President ...
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May 17, 2012 |
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Americans support medicare reform, but not on their dime: poll
(HealthDay) -- Medicare, the federal health insurance program for older and disabled Americans, may be hurtling toward the critical list, but most people don't want to pay for needed reforms from their own wallets, a new ...
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Apr 26, 2012 |
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Spinal surgeries more successful than reflected in public reported statistics: UCSF
The odds that someone undergoing spinal surgery at a particular hospital will have to be readmitted to the same hospital within 30 days is an important measure of the quality of care patients receive. That's because these ...
Surgery
Apr 17, 2012 |
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Clinical trial measures impact of food on anti-cancer drug effects
(Medical Xpress) -- An unusual clinical trial based at the University of Chicago Medicine is seeking to determine whether a drug approved for patients with advanced prostate cancer might be safer and just ...
Cancer
Apr 16, 2012 |
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Supreme Court misunderstanding on health overhaul?
(AP) -- A possible misunderstanding about President Barack Obama's health care overhaul could cloud Supreme Court deliberations on its fate, leaving the impression that the law's insurance requirement is ...
Health
Apr 11, 2012 |
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Lung cancer screening might pay off, analysis shows
(HealthDay) -- Screening people at high risk for lung cancer could be at least as cost-effective as screening for breast, colorectal and cervical cancers, a new study suggests.
Cancer
Apr 09, 2012 |
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Obama defends health care, mum on court case
President Barack Obama defended his signature health care reform Friday, without discussing a Supreme Court case that could spell its end ahead of November's presidential elections.
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Mar 30, 2012 |
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Final day of Supreme Court health law hearings
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday on whether President Barack Obama's landmark health care law should be struck down if its key requirement that all Americans buy insurance is declared unconstitutional.
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Mar 28, 2012 |
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Obama's health care law
The US law that extends health insurance coverage to most Americans, dubbed "Obamacare" by its detractors, is 2,400 pages long but only certain points have been challenged before the US Supreme Court.
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Mar 23, 2012 |
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Obama health reform faces Supreme Court test
US President Barack Obama's landmark health reform faces a make-or-break test in the Supreme Court next week in a historic case likely to shape the nation's future political landscape.
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Mar 23, 2012 |
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Insurers speed health care overhaul preparations
(AP) -- The nation's big insurers are spending millions to carry out President Barack Obama's health care overhaul even though there's a chance the wide-reaching law won't survive Supreme Court scrutiny.
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Mar 23, 2012 |
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$100 or $1,000? Wide price range for birth control
(AP) -- What does birth control really cost anyway?
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Mar 09, 2012 |
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Poll: Health overhaul unpopular, but not as feared
(AP) -- Nearly two years after President Barack Obama signed landmark legislation to cover the uninsured, a new poll finds his health care overhaul is neither better liked nor better understood.
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Mar 08, 2012 |
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States file suit over Obama's birth control plan
Seven US states have filed a lawsuit challenging a requirement in President Barack Obama's 2010 health care law that religious organizations provide insurance covering birth control.
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Feb 24, 2012 |
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