NOVEMBER 1, 2011 Cooking the Books on Grandma’s Health Care Medicare patients who get less care have a higher risk of dying. Don’t believe the hype that implies otherwise. By BETSY MCCAUGHEY The British medical journal Lancet reported last month that 32% of elderly American patients undergo surgery in the year before they die, a
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‘Contagion’ all too real Film exposes true biodefense vulnerabilities that need solutions By Tevi Troy Tevi Troy, a former deputy secretary of health and human services, is a fellow at the Hudson Institute and at the Homeland Security Policy Institute. – The Washington Times Thursday, September 15, 2011 Jude Law’s character, Alan Krumwiede,
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com by Avik Roy October 5, 2011 12:00 P.M. A lawsuit on the new Supreme Court docket has divided the party. I’ve spilt many pixels writing about the constitutional challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which are now nearly certain to end up in the just-commenced 2011–12 term of
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Trail no obstacle for Ann Romney Manages MS with discipline By Shira Schoenberg Boston Globe Correspondent September 22, 2011 KEENE, N.H. – When Ann Romney attended a Republican luncheon at Michele’s Ristorante, she passed up the standard chicken and beef entrees and instead asked the chef to pack up a chicken Caesar salad to go.
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AUGUST 18, 2011 By ALICIA MUNDY Texas Gov. Rick Perry, under questioning from voters in recent days, has switched positions on a 2007 executive order he issued mandating the vaccination of all young girls before they enter sixth grade to ward off cervical cancer. Mr. Perry’s order that Texas school girls receive the vaccine, Gardasil,
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GE moving X-ray unit to Beijing Updated: 2011-07-26 07:51 By Li Woke (China Daily) A General Electric Co employee at the healthcare unit’s production facility in Beijing assembles a medical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device. Nelson Ching / Bloomberg BEIJING – General Electric Co’s healthcare sector will move its X-ray global headquarters to Beijing from
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JULY 26, 2011 Price controls on Part D drugs would cripple medical innovation and undermine a successful federal entitlement program. By TOMAS J. PHILIPSON Medicare Part D, the prescription-drug benefit program for seniors, has cost the federal government considerably less than was initially estimated. It’s also overwhelmingly popular among beneficiaries. But in Washington, Part D
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JULY 23, 2011 Oncologists vs. the FDA on the breast cancer drug. The humanitarians urging the Food and Drug Administration to withdraw Avastin for women with terminal breast cancer claim there is no other choice: The evidence shows Avastin doesn’t work, so too bad. But how to square that view with the highly respected medical
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