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Infants’ Swine Flu Vaccine Is Recalled as Less Potent
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:21:24 -0000
Nearly a million doses may have been slightly less potent than required, federal officials said in announcing that the shots had been voluntarily pulled.
26 Arrested in Three States in Medicare Fraud Schemes
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:54:48 -0000
Federal agents arrested 26 suspects in three states on Tuesday, including a doctor and nurses, in a crackdown on Medicare fraud totaling $61 million.
In Surgery, a Tangled Tumor Meets Its Match
By DENISE GRADY Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:00:28 -0000
At NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia, surgeons spent 43 hours performing an ex vivo procedure on a man whose liver was engulfed by a cancerous tumor.
When Lowering the Odds of Cancer Isn't Enough
By TARA PARKER-POPE Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:09:37 -0000
If someone invented a pill to cut a cancer risk in half, would you take it?
Immigrants Lose Lawsuit Against Atlanta Hospital
By KEVIN SACK Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:32:55 -0000
About 50 patients, mostly illegal immigrants, had sued to force Grady Memorial Hospital, a struggling public hospital that provides charity care, to continue providing free dialysis treatment.
New Goal for the Obese: Zero Gain in Pregnancy
By RONI CARYN RABIN Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:41:47 -0000
A study of weight gain by obese women in pregnancy will try to keep them from putting on any pounds.

 

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