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MacDowell and Minor: Obamacare, other factors result in high medical costs
In the rush to approve certain provisions in the Affordable Care Act and the subsequent excitement that surrounded the misconception that all Americans now will be covered by inexpensive health care insurance, one looming question has been lingering...
Tags: Australia, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Physical Therapy, Health and Safety at School, Health and Safety at Work
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The Great Debate
While marijuana use is still illegal under federal law, the general direction of state laws regarding marijuana is clearly moving in the direction of leniency. Two states in November, Colorado and Washington, legalized it for recreational purposes....
Tags: Chemotherapy, Behavioral Conditions, Parkinson's Disease, Insomnia, Muscle Cramps and Spasms
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A wife's Alzheimer's, a husband's obsession
Ken Chiate is a born problem-solver, and in the summer of 1961, when he was on break from college, his problem was a head-turning blond named Jeannette. He was head lifeguard at a public pool in Phoenix, where his father owned a liquor store. She worked...
Tags: Parkinson's Disease, Bank of America Corp., Alzheimer's Disease, Rentals, Dermatologists
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Volusia woman with mental problems vanishes without medication
A 29-year-old Volusia County woman with drug problems has been missing for more than a week and she doesn't have the medications she needs to take for multiple mental problems, authorities said today. Sarita Singhal of Edgewater has been missing since...
Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Volusia County Sheriff's Office, Chemical Industry, Arts and Culture, ADHD
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Health Activist Report: Big Pharma CEO's Made $1.6 Billion
The CEOs at 11 large pharmaceutical companies have made a staggering $1.57 billion over the last decade as their companies have gouged the public, a policy group charges, in a release aimed at fomenting anger at the companies. Health Care for America...Tags: Government, Chemical Industry, Politics, Washington, DC, Government Health Care
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Sweating for Catie: Zumbathon raises money to help fund cystic fibrosis research
crystal.schelle@herald-mail.comCatie Breslin is living proof there have been advances in cystic fibrosis research. When she was born, the average age a person with CF expected to live was age 18. Today, it's 37. That's why the 21-year-old Hagerstown native is hoping that people...Tags: Chemical Industry, Multiple Sclerosis, Cystic Fibrosis, Research, Diseases and Illnesses
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Whooping cough death reinforces need for vaccines, officials say
An Orlando infant's death from whooping cough last month is underscoring the county health department's push to get children and adults alike vaccinated and keep vaccines up to date. The six-week-old baby boy was too young to have gotten his first...
Tags: Diphtheria , Preventative Medicine, Family, March of Dimes Foundation, Vaccines
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After hospital care, the test begins
In 2011, my husband, Eric, a trial attorney, was felled by a brain stem stroke just before he was to board a flight at O'Hare in Chicago. He was just 53 years old with no prior health conditions or problems. From the outset, we knew his recovery and...
Tags: Chemical Industry, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Research, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Some doctors refusing to adopt electronic records
Under a plan first endorsed by President George W. Bush and signed into law by President Obama, the health care industry in the United States has started to change one of the signature elements in doctor's offices — switching chicken-scratched hand-...
Tags: Electronics, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Hospitals and Clinics, Government, Barack Obama
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REUTERS SUMMIT-Drugmakers split as demands for open data mount
Reuters(For other news from Reuters Health Summit, click on http://www.reuters.com/summit/Health13) * Growing demands for transparency of clinical trial data * Wider disclosure by EU regulator angers drugmakers * GlaxoSmithKline sets up online system for data...Tags: Regulatory Policy and Organizations, Lobbying, Science and Technology, S, Margaret Hamburg
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Know your rights: Nursing Home Quality Reform Act created a Bill of Rights for those in long-term care
marieg@herald-mail.comFor most people, home means familiar faces, rooms filled with years of memories and a measure of control over one's life. But for many older adults, home is confined to four walls in an institutional setting, where you learn to navigate a wheelchair...Tags: Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), General Practitioners, Long Term Care, Consumers, Crime, Law and Justice
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Police: Man admits burglarizing nine homes in Allentown, taking $38,000 in loot
A 19-year-old man was charged with burglarizing several homes in Allentown from July to April and taking $38,000 in jewelry, cash, prescription medications and other items, according to court records. Alexander Aquino of Allentown was arrested April 24...Tags: Electronics, Chemical Industry, Theft, Prosecution, Allentown
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