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Researchers Take Another Look at Bisphosphonate-Cancer Link - eMaxHealth
Posted: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:22:12 GMT+00:00
Sydney Morning HeraldResearchers Take Another Look at Bisphosphonate-Cancer LinkeMaxHealthEarlier this month, researchers from the United Kingdom released their findings from a large study involving bisphosphonate use (drugs that treat osteoporosis) and its association with esophagitis and esophageal cancer link. ...About Face: Oral Bisphosphonates Linked to Esophageal CancerMedscapeOsteoporosis Drugs Tied to Esophageal CancerABC NewsOsteoporosis Drugs May Be Linked to Cancer RiskWebMDReuters -Bloomberg -FiercePharmaall 270 news articles »
Posted: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:22:12 GMT+00:00
Sydney Morning HeraldResearchers Take Another Look at Bisphosphonate-Cancer LinkeMaxHealthEarlier this month, researchers from the United Kingdom released their findings from a large study involving bisphosphonate use (drugs that treat osteoporosis) and its association with esophagitis and esophageal cancer link. ...About Face: Oral Bisphosphonates Linked to Esophageal CancerMedscapeOsteoporosis Drugs Tied to Esophageal CancerABC NewsOsteoporosis Drugs May Be Linked to Cancer RiskWebMDReuters -Bloomberg -FiercePharmaall 270 news articles »
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Employees Pay More and Get Less from Medical Coverage - MedPage Today
Posted: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:32:21 GMT+00:00
New York Daily NewsEmployees Pay More and Get Less from Medical CoverageMedPage TodayWASHINGTON -- Workers are paying 14% more for their employer-sponsored plans than they did last year as a bigger chunk of healthcare costs shifted from employers to employees, according to a ...Workers are paying more for health insuranceNorthJersey.comCompanies pile bigger share of health-care costs onto workersWashington PostEmployees' insurance burden up more than ratesColumbus DispatchWall Street Journal -National Underwriter Life and Health Insurance News -California Healthlineall 530 news articles »
Posted: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:32:21 GMT+00:00
New York Daily NewsEmployees Pay More and Get Less from Medical CoverageMedPage TodayWASHINGTON -- Workers are paying 14% more for their employer-sponsored plans than they did last year as a bigger chunk of healthcare costs shifted from employers to employees, according to a ...Workers are paying more for health insuranceNorthJersey.comCompanies pile bigger share of health-care costs onto workersWashington PostEmployees' insurance burden up more than ratesColumbus DispatchWall Street Journal -National Underwriter Life and Health Insurance News -California Healthlineall 530 news articles »
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31 Days in the Life of a Throat Cancer Patient - ABC News
Posted: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:23:10 GMT+00:00
Monsters and Critics.com31 Days in the Life of a Throat Cancer PatientABC NewsScott, a 66-year-old high-tech consultant from Silicon Valley, thought the small lump he detected under his jaw line while shaving about two years ago was caused by allergies. Doctors eventually discovered the small growth on ...Michael Douglas diagnosed with throat cancerFood ConsumerHow Michael Douglas got throat cancerOCRegisterMichael Douglas Talks Throat Cancer; Clooney Steps Back Into Director's ChairRTT NewsdBTechno -U.S. News & World Report -Examiner.comall 131 news articles »
Posted: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:23:10 GMT+00:00
Monsters and Critics.com31 Days in the Life of a Throat Cancer PatientABC NewsScott, a 66-year-old high-tech consultant from Silicon Valley, thought the small lump he detected under his jaw line while shaving about two years ago was caused by allergies. Doctors eventually discovered the small growth on ...Michael Douglas diagnosed with throat cancerFood ConsumerHow Michael Douglas got throat cancerOCRegisterMichael Douglas Talks Throat Cancer; Clooney Steps Back Into Director's ChairRTT NewsdBTechno -U.S. News & World Report -Examiner.comall 131 news articles »
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New Malaria Drug Candidate Holds Promise - Wall Street Journal
Posted: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:02:51 GMT+00:00
Kansas City StarNew Malaria Drug Candidate Holds PromiseWall Street JournalAn international team of scientists has identified a promising drug candidate that represents an entirely new class of medicines to treat malaria, one of the biggest killers in the developing world. The new drug was shown to be effective ...Novartis Malaria Drug May Yield First New Treatment in 30 YearsBloombergNew Antimalarial Compound Shows Promise For Drug Resistant MalariaMedical News TodayExperimental Novartis drug shows malaria promiseReutersAFP -Food Consumer -The Associated Pressall 226 news articles »
Posted: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:02:51 GMT+00:00
Kansas City StarNew Malaria Drug Candidate Holds PromiseWall Street JournalAn international team of scientists has identified a promising drug candidate that represents an entirely new class of medicines to treat malaria, one of the biggest killers in the developing world. The new drug was shown to be effective ...Novartis Malaria Drug May Yield First New Treatment in 30 YearsBloombergNew Antimalarial Compound Shows Promise For Drug Resistant MalariaMedical News TodayExperimental Novartis drug shows malaria promiseReutersAFP -Food Consumer -The Associated Pressall 226 news articles »
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Indonesia's smoking toddler kicks the habit - The Associated Press
Posted: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:40:26 GMT+00:00
NEWS.com.auIndonesia's smoking toddler kicks the habitThe Associated PressJAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia's smoking toddler has kicked the habit. Footage of 2-year-old Aldi Rizal — who smoked up to two packs a day — puffing away circulated the Internet in May and sparked an international outcry. His parents said he'd throw ...Indonesia's smoking two-year-old quits: Suffers health problemsHealth JackalSmoking Baby Ardi Rizal QuitsModern MomSmoking toddler kicks the habitWPTVUSA Today -Manila Bulletin -FOXNewsall 424 news articles »
Posted: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:40:26 GMT+00:00
NEWS.com.auIndonesia's smoking toddler kicks the habitThe Associated PressJAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia's smoking toddler has kicked the habit. Footage of 2-year-old Aldi Rizal — who smoked up to two packs a day — puffing away circulated the Internet in May and sparked an international outcry. His parents said he'd throw ...Indonesia's smoking two-year-old quits: Suffers health problemsHealth JackalSmoking Baby Ardi Rizal QuitsModern MomSmoking toddler kicks the habitWPTVUSA Today -Manila Bulletin -FOXNewsall 424 news articles »
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Important Breakthrough In Origins Of Aggressive Breast Cancer - Medical News Today
Posted: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:10:21 GMT+00:00
Reuters UKImportant Breakthrough In Origins Of Aggressive Breast CancerMedical News TodayResearchers have made a major breakthrough in finding out how aggressive cancers originate, raising hope of novel targeted therapies for future breast cancer patients, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Stem Cell. ...Research Sheds Light on Aggressive Breast CancersFood Consumer'Major advance' in tackling aggressive breast cancerTelegraph.co.ukNew breast cancer origin discoveredThe Press AssociationLos Angeles Times -BusinessWeek -Reutersall 844 news articles »
Posted: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:10:21 GMT+00:00
Reuters UKImportant Breakthrough In Origins Of Aggressive Breast CancerMedical News TodayResearchers have made a major breakthrough in finding out how aggressive cancers originate, raising hope of novel targeted therapies for future breast cancer patients, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Stem Cell. ...Research Sheds Light on Aggressive Breast CancersFood Consumer'Major advance' in tackling aggressive breast cancerTelegraph.co.ukNew breast cancer origin discoveredThe Press AssociationLos Angeles Times -BusinessWeek -Reutersall 844 news articles »
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West Nile virus kills 15 in Greece, health officials say - CNN
Posted: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:06:13 GMT+00:00
TopNews United Kingdom (blog)West Nile virus kills 15 in Greece, health officials sayCNNBy the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- West Nile Virus has killed 15 people in northern Greece and sickened 158 others, the Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday. Thirty-nine people were hospitalized Friday, nine of them in ...Human West Nile Cases Confirmed In IndianaWRTV IndianapolisWest Nile blamed for 14 deaths in GreeceNECNFirst human case of West Nile Virus reported in Marion CountyFox 59Fort Wayne Journal Gazette -Greene County Daily World -Denton Record Chronicleall 313 news articles »
Posted: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:06:13 GMT+00:00
TopNews United Kingdom (blog)West Nile virus kills 15 in Greece, health officials sayCNNBy the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- West Nile Virus has killed 15 people in northern Greece and sickened 158 others, the Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday. Thirty-nine people were hospitalized Friday, nine of them in ...Human West Nile Cases Confirmed In IndianaWRTV IndianapolisWest Nile blamed for 14 deaths in GreeceNECNFirst human case of West Nile Virus reported in Marion CountyFox 59Fort Wayne Journal Gazette -Greene County Daily World -Denton Record Chronicleall 313 news articles »
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Group: Half of Calif. health workers got flu shots - BusinessWeek
Posted: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:43:16 GMT+00:00
Los Angeles TimesGroup: Half of Calif. health workers got flu shotsBusinessWeekA consumer group has found that just over half of California health care workers received flu shots during the 2008-2009 flu season. Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports, said that state public health department data shows an overall ...Lineman won't be tackled by flu againCNNLouisville flu shots here off to slow startLouisville Courier-JournalReport: Nearly Half of Calif. Hospital Workers Did Not Obtain Flu ShotsCalifornia HealthlineMedPage Today -Chicago Daily Herald -Times of Indiaall 734 news articles »
Posted: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:43:16 GMT+00:00
Los Angeles TimesGroup: Half of Calif. health workers got flu shotsBusinessWeekA consumer group has found that just over half of California health care workers received flu shots during the 2008-2009 flu season. Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports, said that state public health department data shows an overall ...Lineman won't be tackled by flu againCNNLouisville flu shots here off to slow startLouisville Courier-JournalReport: Nearly Half of Calif. Hospital Workers Did Not Obtain Flu ShotsCalifornia HealthlineMedPage Today -Chicago Daily Herald -Times of Indiaall 734 news articles »
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Indiana to get share of Botox settlement - BusinessWeek
Posted: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:43:15 GMT+00:00
Washington TimesIndiana to get share of Botox settlementBusinessWeekIndiana's attorney general says a pharmaceutical company that makes Botox will pay the state nearly $636000 in a civil settlement. Botox maker Allergan Inc. said Wednesday that it would pay $600 million to settle a yearslong federal investigation into ...Allergan Pleads Guilty, Settles Botox InvestigationABC NewsMaker of Botox pays state in improper marketing settlementBaltimore SunLegal Briefing: Allergan Pays $600 Million to Settle Botox ChargesDailyFinanceTimes of India -Indianapolis Star -The Associated Pressall 684 news articles »
Posted: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:43:15 GMT+00:00
Washington TimesIndiana to get share of Botox settlementBusinessWeekIndiana's attorney general says a pharmaceutical company that makes Botox will pay the state nearly $636000 in a civil settlement. Botox maker Allergan Inc. said Wednesday that it would pay $600 million to settle a yearslong federal investigation into ...Allergan Pleads Guilty, Settles Botox InvestigationABC NewsMaker of Botox pays state in improper marketing settlementBaltimore SunLegal Briefing: Allergan Pays $600 Million to Settle Botox ChargesDailyFinanceTimes of India -Indianapolis Star -The Associated Pressall 684 news articles »
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US medical programs missing millions of kids -report - Reuters
Posted: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:05:51 GMT+00:00
Reuters IndiaUS medical programs missing millions of kids -reportReutersWASHINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - An estimated five million uninsured children in the United States were eligible for Medicaid or the Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP) but were not enrolled in either plan, according to a new report. ...Millions of Eligible Kids Not Enrolled in CHIP, Medicaid, Study FindsCalifornia HealthlineUp To 5 Million Kids Uninsured But Eligible For Government ProgramsKaiser Health NewsObama administration says Texas must boost enrollment in CHIP and MedicaidDallas Morning News (blog)Benzinga -Health Affairs (blog) -Federal News Service (subscription)all 32 news articles »
Posted: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:05:51 GMT+00:00
Reuters IndiaUS medical programs missing millions of kids -reportReutersWASHINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - An estimated five million uninsured children in the United States were eligible for Medicaid or the Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP) but were not enrolled in either plan, according to a new report. ...Millions of Eligible Kids Not Enrolled in CHIP, Medicaid, Study FindsCalifornia HealthlineUp To 5 Million Kids Uninsured But Eligible For Government ProgramsKaiser Health NewsObama administration says Texas must boost enrollment in CHIP and MedicaidDallas Morning News (blog)Benzinga -Health Affairs (blog) -Federal News Service (subscription)all 32 news articles »
