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    AMA issues first report card on health insurers (AP)

    Dr. William Dolan, an American Medical Association board member, right and Frank Cohen, senior analyst for MIT Solutions answer questions after a presentation on the Diagnosis and Cure for the Broken Claims Process, Monday, June 16, 2008, at the AMA annual meeting in Chicago. The AMA issued its first health insurance report card at the meeting Monday. The primary focus is on how quickly and accurately doctors get paid. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Some health insurance companies rate doctors on their performance. Now doctors are turning the tables.


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    Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:18:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Surgeon general meeting aims to lower preterm birth (AP)
    AP - One in eight babies — well over half a million a year — are born premature, a toll that's risen steadily for two decades with no sign of stopping. -- read full article
    Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:20:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    FDA: Older psych drugs have fatal risks in seniors (AP)
    AP - The Food and Drug Administration warned doctors Monday that prescribing a certain group of psychiatric drugs to seniors suffering from dementia can increase their risk of death. -- read full article
    Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:43:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    FDA: Part of Mexico cleared in salmonella probe (AP)

    Crowds of people line up to buy Arkansas grown tomatoes at the Farmers Market, Saturday, June 14, 2008 in Little Rock, Ark. Because Arkansas tomatoes have not been linked to the recent salmonella outbreak from tomatoes, Arkansas tomato growers say they are getting a boost in sales following the outbreak. (AP Photo/Mike Wintroath)AP - One part of Mexico — Baja California — has been cleared of suspicion in the outbreak of salmonella-tainted tomatoes, which U.S. officials said Monday now has sickened 277 people.


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    Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:19:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Gene Therapy Helps Dogs Stricken With Cancer (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - MONDAY, June 16 (HealthDay News) -- A gene therapy that has extended the lives of dogs with cancer may also be able to help people who have the disease live longer with a better quality of life, the therapy's developers say. -- read full article
    Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:03:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Program promotes flu shots to marginalized groups (Reuters)

    Doses of a flu vaccine lie on a table as San Luis Obispo County public healthcare professionals conduct a mass flu vaccination drill at the Veterans building in San Luis Obispo, California October 31, 2006. (Phil Klein/Reuters)Reuters - Researchers have found a community-based influenza outreach program successful in generating interest in flu vaccination among hard-to-reach urban populations such as drug abusers, undocumented immigrants, homeless persons, prostitutes and the homebound elderly.


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    Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:44:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Amgen's Enbrel in kids "concerning": FDA staff (Reuters)
    Reuters - U.S. Food and Drug Administration reviewers are concerned about life-threatening complications in children taking Amgen Inc's drug Enbrel for psoriasis and other conditions, according to agency documents released on Monday. -- read full article
    Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:54:37 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Clinical Trials Update: June 16, 2008 (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch: -- read full article
    Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:03:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Bernanke: Improving health care is critical challenge (AP)

    U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks at the Senate Finance Committee health reform summit in Washington, June 16, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters)AP - Bolstering the performance of the U.S. health care system is one of the biggest challenges facing the country, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Monday.


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    Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:26:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    NYC: No trans fats in restaurants as of July 1 (AP)
    AP - Unhealthy trans fats in restaurant food? Not in New York City. -- read full article
    Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:56:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Surgeon general meeting aims to lower preterm birth (AP)
    AP - One in eight babies — well over half a million a year — are born premature, a toll that's risen steadily for two decades with no sign of stopping. -- read full article
    Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:07:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    ED an Indicator of Men's Health (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - SUNDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- Erectile dysfunction could be an indicator of testosterone deficiency and the metabolic syndrome, a set of factors that may indicate an increased risk of heart and vascular disease and type 2 diabetes, a new international study shows. -- read full article
    Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:46:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    'Standard' Glucose Test May Be Wrong One for Obese Children (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - SUNDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- The current standard screening test for prediabetes in children often fails to detect the condition, Canadian researchers contend. -- read full article
    Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:46:24 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    NY health official: Higher tax helps smokers quit (AP)
    AP - New York smokers have been sent outside in all kinds of weather, coughed at in disdain, and now they are burdened with the most expensive cigarette taxes in the nation. Now, to add cost to injury, the state is declaring its highest-in-the-nation cigarette tax a success. -- read full article
    Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:02:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
    Most cancer doctors avoid saying it's the end (AP)

    Cancer patient Eileen Mulligan, 68, rests in the backyard of her Washington home on Thursday, June 12, 2008. Only one-third of terminally ill cancer patients in a new, federally funded study said their doctors had discussed end-of-life care. Surprisingly, patients who had these talks were no more likely to become depressed than those who did not, the study found. They were less likely to spend their final days in hospitals, tethered to machines. They avoided costly, futile care, and their loved ones were more at peace after they died. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)AP - One look at Eileen Mulligan lying soberly on the exam table and Dr. John Marshall knew the time for the Big Talk had arrived.


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    Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:08:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
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