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N.Y. Boy On Life Support in D.C. Dies

Posted on November 17, 2008
The Washington Post reports that the battle over whether to keep a 12-year-old New York boy on life support has ended, as the boy passed away early Saturday. While doctors declared the boy legally dead after his brain activity ceased,...

Employers Offer Workers Fewer Health Care Plans

Posted on November 16, 2008
The New York Times reports that many workers are finding fewer options being offered for health care as many companies only offer high-deductible plans to employees. Milt Freudenheim writes, It?s the annual ?open enrollment? season in corporate America, when employees...

Rare Treatment Is Reported to Cure AIDS Patient

Posted on November 16, 2008
The Washington Post reports that doctors say an American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia. However, researchers and doctors...

Confronting the Racial Barriers Between Doctors and Patients

Posted on November 15, 2008
The New York Times reports that the election of the nation?s first African-American president raises questions about racial disparities in health care. Pauline W. Chen, M.D. provides an account of her experiences, Last Tuesday, like most of the country, I...

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Rule Allows More Time Off For Families of Injured Troops

Posted on November 15, 2008
The Washington Post reports that the Labor Department released a new regulation yesterday allowing workers to take up to 26 weeks off each year to care for family members seriously injured in the military. Michael A. Fletcher writes, The new...

FDA Blocks Chinese Milk Products

Posted on November 14, 2008
The Washington Post reports on the largest effort to date to keep products tainted with the industrial chemical melamine from reaching U.S. consumers. Annys Shin writes, Federal food safety officials yesterday began holding up shipments of food from China that...

Obama Urged to Overhaul Healthcare, Stat

Posted on November 14, 2008
The Los Angeles Times reports that four leading adovcacy groups representing business, labor, and reitrees retirees are calling for comprehensive healthcare reform in the new administration's first 100 days. Noam N. Levey writes, Reporting from Washington -- Four leading advocacy...

Subsidized Insurance Backed

Posted on November 13, 2008
The Washington Post reports that Maryland health advocates unveiled a $15.5 billion proposal yesterday for universal health care that would subsidize insurance coverage for low-income residents with a payroll tax and increases to cigarette and alcohol taxes...

More Countries Make Spreading HIV a Crime

Posted on November 13, 2008
The Washington Post reports that an increasing number of countries worldwide are making spreading HIV a crime, according to a new report from the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Thirty-two states in the US have alerady criminalized HIV transmission...

Senators Hurry to Keep Health Care in Forefront

Posted on November 12, 2008
The Washington Post reports on Senator Max Baucus and Senator Edward Kennedy's different plans of reforming American health care. Ceci Connolly writes, Two of the Senate's most influential leaders are working separately behind the scenes on legislation that would dramatically...

Senator Takes Initiative on Health Care

Posted on November 12, 2008
The New York Times reports more on Senator Max Baucus' plan to guarantee health insurance for all Americans by facilitating sales of private insurance, expanding Medicais and Medicare, and requiring most employers to provide or pay for health benefits...

The Promise and Power of RNA

Posted on November 11, 2008
The New York Times reports that RNA interference, discovered only about 10 years ago, is attracting huge interest for its seeming ability to knock out disease-causing genes. Andrew Pollack writes, People whose bodies make an unusually active form of a...

AMA Acts Against Trans Fats and Texting While Driving

Posted on November 11, 2008
The Washington Post reports that the American Medical Association on Monday took a stand against two unhealthy habits: eating foods made with artificial trans fats and text-messaging while driving. The Washington Post writes, At its semiannual policy meeting, the nation's...

Obama Weighs Quick Undoing of Bush Policy

Posted on November 10, 2008
The New York Times reports that President-elect Barack Obama is poised to move swiftly to reverse actions that President Bush took using executive authority, and his transition team is reviewing limits on stem cell research and the expansion of oil...

African Researchers Plan Malaria Vaccine Trial

Posted on November 10, 2008
The Washington Post reports on a medical trial hoping to develop the first malaria vaccine. Donna Bryson writes, A medical trial involving 16,000 children across Africa will be a challenge to human, scientific and communications resources on the world's poorest...

Seven Things Obama's Win Could Mean for Women's Health

Posted on November 09, 2008
US News reports on some of the policies put in place by Bush that women's health activists are hoping Obama will reverse. Deborah Kotz writes, Women's health activists are fist-bumping each other over Obama's slam-dunk win, and they're hoping that...

Vitamin Pills Don't Prevent Heart Disease, Study Says

Posted on November 09, 2008
Contrary to what most would think, the Washington Post reports that a study funded by the National Institutes of Health and several vitamin makers suggests that Vitamins C and E do nothing to prevent heart disease in men, and instead...

New U.S. Rule Pares Outpatient Medicaid Services

Posted on November 08, 2008
The New York Times reports that in the first of an expected avalanche of post-election regulations, the Bush administration on Friday narrowed the scope of services that can be provided to poor people under Medicaid's outpatient hospital benefit. Robert Pear...

Army General Defies Culture of Silence on Mental Health

Posted on November 08, 2008
The Washington Post reports on an Army General who spoke out from the culture of silence on mental health by seeking treatment and advocating for others to do the same. Pauline Jelinek writes, It takes a brave soldier to do...

At the End of Life, a Delicate Calculus

Posted on November 07, 2008
The New York Times reports on Tuesdays election, where Washington State joined Oregon as the second in the nation to allow physicians to prescribe lethal doses of medication to terminally ill men and women who want to hasten their own...

Hospitals See Drop in Paying Patients

Posted on November 07, 2008
The New York Times reports that in another sign of the economy?s toll on the nation?s health care system, some hospitals say they are seeing fewer paying patients even as greater numbers of people are showing up at emergency rooms...

D.C. Hospital Sues to Remove 12 Year Old Boy From Life Support

Posted on November 06, 2008
The Washington Post reports that the parents of a 12-year-old boy are trying to prevent a hospital from taking him off life support because they say their faith does not define death as cessation of brain function alone. Del Quentin...

First-Ever Mapping of Cancer Patient's Genome

Posted on November 06, 2008
The Washington Post reports that researchers have decoded the complete DNA sequence of a person with leukemia and discovered earlier unknown mutations associated with the blood cell cancer. Ed Edelson writes, In a genetics first, researchers report that they have...

Obama Makes History: "Yes, We Can"

Posted on November 05, 2008
The Washington Post reports on last night's election. The U.S. decisively elects its first African American President and the democrats expand control of Congress. Robert Barnes and Michael D. Shear write, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois was elected the nation's...

Obama's Victory Speech

Posted on November 05, 2008
If you couldn't stay up late last night for Obama's victory speech or just want to hear or read it again, the New York Times has provided the clip and transcription. Watch Obama's Victory Speech

Biden Sees Vice President's Role as 'Adviser in Chief,' Aides Say

Posted on November 05, 2008
The Washington Post reports on the new Vice President, Joseph Biden. Perry Bacon Jr. writes, Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. sees his role in Barack Obama's administration as "adviser in chief," using his decades of experience in the Senate....

The Value of Voting, Beyond Politics

Posted on November 04, 2008
The New York Times discusses that although psychologists and neuroscientiests have tried to determine how people make voting decisions by taking brain scans and comparing how certain messages or images activate emotion centers, none of this has helped predict people's...

Court Blocks White House Push on Medicare Expenses

Posted on November 04, 2008
The New York Times reports that a federal court has blocked the Bush administration?s effort to save money on Medicare by paying for only the least expensive treatments for particular conditions. Robert Pear writes, Congress sets Medicare payment rates and...

Lean Economy, Fatty Diet

Posted on November 03, 2008
The Los Angeles Times reports that when money's tight, many people switch to cheap, unhealthful processed foods. Karen Ravn writes, Prices are way down on the stock market and way up at the grocery store. Just thinking about it could...

12 Things You Should Know About Aspirin

Posted on November 03, 2008
US News offers twelve benefits and limitations of taking aspirin. Sarah Baldauf writes, Aspirin, that old standard in everyone's medicine chest, can really pack a wallop. So much so that the American Heart Association has long recommended aspirin therapy for...

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