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Wall Street Journal: Health Blog
WSJ's blog on health and the business of health.
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Is Your Spouse Really Your Spouse? A Dependent Audit Wants to Know
With employers searching for ways to control health-care costs, the popularity of dependent audits isn't expected to flag.
Categories: NEWS: Health and Medical
A.M. Vitals: Cigna Eyes Individual Market If Overhaul Makes it Attractive
Categories: NEWS: Health and Medical
A.M. Vitals: J&J’s Plan to Fix Plant Includes 300 Layoffs
Also: bad nurses traveling; Boston Scientific's founders sell shares; research on a universal flu vaccine.
Categories: NEWS: Health and Medical
Potential XMRV-Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Link Not Easy to Tease Out
Patients aren't going to like this, but it's going to take a while to investigate the potential connection between XMRV and chronic-fatigue syndrome.
Categories: NEWS: Health and Medical
How Will ‘Meaningful Use’ Factor Into Doctor and Hospital Rankings?
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FDA Panel Math: How Avandia Vote Is Being Played
The FDA advisory panel's crucial vote leaves a lot of room for interpretation, as news headlines show.
Categories: NEWS: Health and Medical
A.M. Vitals: Glaxo Takes $2.4 Billion Charge Over Lawsuits
Also: meaningful use likely to benefit GE and others; early Alzheimer's diagnosis less costly; lobbying over preventive services; weight loss drugs.
Categories: NEWS: Health and Medical
This Blog Post is About Death. Please Read it Anyway.
The U.S. was 9th on the quality of death index, primarily because of the high cost of end-of-life care.
Categories: NEWS: Health and Medical
How the FDA Panel’s Votes on Avandia Went Down
On the final vote, most panelists recommended Avandia stay on the market but have more label warnings or a restricted use.
Categories: NEWS: Health and Medical
What Everyone’s Saying About the Meaningful Use Requirements
Comments from doctors, health IT companies and industry groups on electronic medical record requirements.
Categories: NEWS: Health and Medical
A.M. Vitals: Avandia Meeting, Day One: ‘Garbage’ Data and Court Settlements
Also: a new head for PhRMA; Maine wants out, temporarily, of one health-overhaul requirement; a union's suit against Pfizer.
Categories: NEWS: Health and Medical
Making it Easier to Diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease
The new criteria are a reflection of the conviction of the field that early identification is successful for the treatment of disease," one expert says.
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Bill Gates Talks AIDS Vaccine Potential, Research Funding
Gates in March 2005 said that if a vaccine for the disease was found within ten years he would eat my hat.
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Survey: 36% of Docs Don’t Believe in Reporting Impaired Colleagues
Most of the respondents -- 69% -- said they felt prepared to deal with colleagues who were significantly impaired, and 64% said the same about incompetent co-workers.
Categories: NEWS: Health and Medical