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Wisconsin Records 1st Outbreak of Dangerous Bird Flu Strain Wisconsin has confirmed its first case of a dangerous bird flu strain that has struck several other Midwest states. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday that it has confirmed the highly pathogenic H5N2 strain in a commercial flock of 200,000 chickens ...
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Kids from Military Families Less Likely to be Fully Immunized savesaved. by Molly Walker Contributing Writer. Young children in military families were less likely to be up to date with their vaccinations than other U.S.
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Public visitation Monday for Lauren Hill Lauren passed away Friday from a rare form of brain cancer, DIPG (Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma). She helped raise more than $1 million for cancer research and brought awareness to the rare cancer (Photo: FOX19 NOW File).
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Anti-vaccination parents could be denied government benefits in Australia Parents who refuse to vaccinate their children will miss out on government benefits of up to $15,000 per child under a new measure announced by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
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HDL and Singulex Labs Fined for Violating False Claims Act Federal authorities have imposed fines on two US cardiac biomarker labs for bribing doctors to get patient referrals for their programs and for providing blood samples for unnecessary testing.
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$48.5m Bill Slapped on Singulex and HDL for Bribery, Fake Testing Two of America's largest medical testing laboratories have agreed to pay fines totaling $48.5 million, having been accused of bribing doctors for patient referrals and carrying out unnecessary testing for which the bill was picked up by Medicare.
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HDL and Singulex Labs Settle False Claims Act Dispute For $48.5 million Two giant US medical testing laboratories have been made to pay $48.5 million in fine to settle the suit associated with them for allegedly bribing doctors to get patient referrals for their programs and for billing Medicare for unnecessary testing.
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Two Health Labs Settle False Claims Act Dispute For $48.5 million Two United States of America medical testing laboratories have in agreement to pay $48.5 million in fine to settle the suit associated with inessential testing moreover as unfair trade practices underneath the False Claims Act.
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Two health labs pay for false claims act 9 The Health Diagnostics Laboratory and Singulex Inc will have to pay millions of dollars after allegedly bribing doctors so they can get referrals and for doing unnecessary testing and let Medicare pay for it.
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Major Medical Labs Found Advising Unnecessary Testing Referrals for Bonuses Two of the largest medical testing laboratories in the whole of the United States have agreed to pay fines in the total amount of $48.5 million to settle accusations of doctor bribery for patient referrals and for committing unnecessary testing.
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Two Health Labs Settle False Claims Act Dispute for $48.5 million In a blog post for the popular website KevinMD.com, physician Anees Chagpar summarizes the most enduring problem with America's healthcare system: "We [the United States] spend more per capita than any other nation on earth, and yet the Organization ...
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2 American Health Care Labs Agreed to Settle Lawsuit for $48.5 Million Two US medical testing laborato ries have agreed to pay $48.5 million in fine to settle the lawsuit related to unnecessary testing as well as unfair trade practices under the False Claims Act.
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$48.5 Million Bill for Two US Health Labs Over Pay-For-Blood Fraud Health Diagnostics Laboratory (HDL) and Singulex Inc. have agreed to pay a combined total of $48.5 million having been found to have shelled out for millions of dollars' worth of wholly unnecessary medical testing.
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Health Labs agree to pay $48.5 million to settle dispute under False Claims Act Two U.S. medical testing laboratories have agreed to pay $48.5 million in fine to settle the lawsuit regarding unnecessary testing and unfair trade practices under the False Claims Act.
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Rhode Island Physician has invented an Ebola diagnostic tool for quick ... An emergency medicine physician at Rhode Island Hospital, the Miriam Hospital, Dr. Adam Levine, has invented a diagnostic tool which can be used to diagnose Ebola in suspected patients.
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Health Source: RI physician develops Ebola diagnostic tool Based on their experience setting up and running an Ebola clinic in Africa last year, Rhode Island physician Adam Levine and his team have published research to help doctors determine a patient's risk of having the disease until lab results are available.
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These women show what it looks like to survive Ebola in Liberia In the small Liberian town of Freeman Reserved, community members say 23 people died in the Ebola Treatment Unit between September and October 2014.
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Physician develops Ebola diagnostic device without having to touch patient Ebola diagnostic device Adam Levine, an emergency medicine physician at Rhode Island Hospital, the Miriam Hospital, and a professor at Brown University has developed a diagnostic tool that can be used to diagnose Ebola in suspected patients whom ...
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Empty Ebola clinics noticed as US relief misstep (New York Occasions) As bodies littered the streets and the sick lay dying in front of overwhelmed clinics last year, President Obama ordered the biggest American intervention ever in a worldwide well being crisis, hoping to stem the deadliest Ebola epidemic.
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Health insurers including Aetna, Cigna and Anthem don't support genetic testing Medical experts have witnessed an increase in genetic testing among patients after Angelina Jolie shared about her decision to undergo preventive surgeries.
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Australia to cut benefits to families who don't vaccinate their children "This is essentially a 'no jab, no pay' policy from this government," said Australian Prime MInister Tony Abbott.
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Insurance companies like Aetna, Anthem, and Cigna refuse covering genetic ... Following the announcement that 39-year-old Angelina-Jolie Jolie performed double mastectomy and also had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed in order to beat the mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes that predisposed her to high risks of ...
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US finds first case of H5N2 bird flu in commercial chicken flock CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday confirmed the first case of a lethal strain of bird flu in a commercial chicken flock, widening the impact of a virus that has already killed hundreds of thousands of turkeys this year.
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Researchers recommend HPV vaccine for boys By vaccinating more men, authors of the new study argue, the entire population will be better protected. By Brooks Hays | April 13, 2015 at 10:27 AM.
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Polio Vaccine Found "Safe and Effective" 60 Years Ago: What Would Salk Think ... It was 60 years ago yesterday that the nation heaved an enormous collective sigh of relief. The largest clinical trial for a vaccine in history had concluded, the data had been collected and analyzed, and the results were announced on April 12, 1955, ...
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Narcotic painkillers, common in pregnancy, can harm baby Use of prescription narcotic painkillers is common in pregnancy and increases the likelihood a baby will be born small or early, or go through painful drug withdrawal, a new study finds.
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Maternity guru Sheila Kitzinger dies aged 86 Child guru and advocate of home birth, Sheila Kitzinger, has died of cancer at the age of 86. Kitzinger was known for her controversial take around issues pertaining to pregnancy and childbirth.
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Medical Labs HDL and Singulex settle dispute under False Claims Act Two medical labs facing charges for unnecessary testing and unfair trade practices under the False Claims Act have agreed to pay $48.5 million to settle the claims.
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RPT - INSIGHT-Aetna, Cigna balk as Angelina effect spurs genetic cancer testing (Repeats for additional subscribers). By Caroline Humer. NEW YORK, April 13 (Reuters) - Medical researchers call it the "Angelina Effect," the surge in demand for genetic testing attributable to movie star Angelina Jolie's public crusade for more aggressive ...
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UPDATE 1-FDA staff backs Medicines Co's once-rejected blood clot preventer (Adds detail). By Samantha Kareen Nair and Natalie Grover. April 13 (Reuters) - An intravenous blood clot preventer developed by The Medicines Co should be approved by the U.S.
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9 of the 11 Ebola treatment centers built by Americans have never seen a single ... "Only 28 Ebola patients have been treated at the 11 treatment units built by the United States military, American officials now say.
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INSIGHT-Aetna, Cigna balk as Angelina effect spurs genetic cancer testing NEW YORK, April 13 (Reuters) - Medical researchers call it the "Angelina Effect," the surge in demand for genetic testing attributable to movie star Angelina Jolie's public crusade for more aggressive detection of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer.
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Angelina Jolie-driven surge in pricey genetic test requests has payers on edge Medical researchers have dubbed the increased demand for genetic testing the "Angelina effect" after actress Angelina Jolie.
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Reports: 65-year-old German woman expecting quadruplets A 65-year-old German woman is pregnant with quadruplets, according to media reports. Annegret Raunigk is already the mother of 13 and grandmother of seven.
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Sheila Kitzinger, natural childbirth expert, dies aged 86 Prolific author and anthropologist Sheila Kitzinger - who wrote more than 25 books on childbirth - has died at her Oxfordshire home at the age of 86.
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After PhIII odyssey, the FDA finally gives Medicines Co. a thumbs-up for cangrelor After close to a decade of late-stage studies and stinging setbacks, The Medicines Co. may finally be on the verge of seeing its blood-thinner cangrelor make it to the market.
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Rebuilding West Africa after Ebola FILE - Health workers, rear, visit a home that have been placed under a twenty one day Ebola virus quarantine period as Sierra Leone enters the second day of a three day country wide lockdown on movement of people due to the Ebola virus in the city of ...
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Why fighting Ebola was like the movie "Jaws" March 23 marked one year since the World Health Organization first announced the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which began in Guinea before spreading to Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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Natural Childbirth Expert Sheila Kitzinger Dies From Cancer At 86 Many women today are opting for natural childbirth, a birthing procedure that does not involve any types of medications and that may even take place in a home or facility that is not a hospital and with the assistance of a midwife instead of an OB/GYN.
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As childbirth expert Sheila Kitzinger dies at 86, JENNI MURRAY pays tribute There are very few people, apart, of course, from my own family members, whose deaths break my heart. Sheila Kitzinger (above), who died yesterday aged 86, was one of them, Jenni Murray writes.
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Sheila Kitzinger, author and pioneer of all-natural childbirth, dies at 86 LONDON - Anthropologist and childbirth professional Sheila Kitzinger, whose books helped people about the globe begin new lives as parents, has died.
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Sheila Kitzinger, pioneer of home birth, dies at 86 26 In the early 60's and 70's, natural childbirth guru, anthropologist and author Sheila Kitzinger came up with the idea of home births- a plan that aims to give pregnant women more choice when it comes to giving birth.
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Home birth pioneer Kitzinger dies Ms Kitzinger developed the concept of a "birth plan" in the 1960s and 1970s, which aimed to give more choice to pregnant women.
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Sheila Kitzinger, author and pioneer of organic childbirth, dies at 86 LONDON - Anthropologist and childbirth expert Sheila Kitzinger, whose books helped people about the globe begin new lives as parents, has died.
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Australia will deny welfare payments to parents who don't vaccinate their children Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced what he's calling a "no jab, no pay" policy, where parents who refuse to vaccinate their children won't be given government welfare benefits.
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Pattern of Safety Lapses Where Group Worked to Battle Ebola Outbreak Partners in Health, a Boston-based charity dedicated to improving health care for people in poor countries, signed on to the Ebola fight last fall with high ambitions.
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Baldness Cure? Patterned Hair Plucking Shown to Regrow Larger Amounts If humans are anything like mice (which scientists often presume they are), researchers might very well develop a treatment for baldness from the most unlikely of therapies (unlike another remedy that helps only specific people fight baldness).
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Could Plucking Hair Be the Cure for Baldness? Attention everyone who is follicly challenged, scientists may have discovered one of the most effective cures for baldness, and it isn't what you think.
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Australian doctors, parents back hardline stance against anti-vaccination families CANBERRA, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Medical organizations and parent groups aired strong support on Monday to the hardline stance taken by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott against parents who choose not to vaccinate their children.
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Australian parents who refuse to vaccinate children to lose payments The Australian government has announced new measures aimed at curbing the growing number of people who refuse to vaccinate their children.
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