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Survivors sharpen debate on mammograms

Charlotte nurse Susan Gawlik was 35 when she got her first mammogram two months ago. It was supposed to provide a baseline for future scans. Instead, it detected cancer. Today, as Gawlik recovers from a double mastectomy, she...

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Nominate basketball standouts

The Miami Herald and the Miami Heat, in partnership with Gatorade and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, are sponsoring the Academic Team Player spotlight in Sunday's youth sports pages in the Neighbors Sunday section.

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November Is Diabetes Awareness Month, But Independence Blue Cross Fights This Growing And...

IBC received one of the top corporate team awards from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) after mobilizing a team of nearly 400 walkers who raised $36,000 through donations and its corporate matching gift program for the...

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Kansas Pilot Program To Use Electronic Medical Records To Coordinate Care

A health information technology project "may revolutionize how health care is managed" by using medical records to coordinate patients' records. The Kansas City Star reports: "A pilot program is helping 13 area doctors' offices...

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Have Policy Changes Due to Parity Had an Impact on Your Practice? [Psychiatric Practice & Managed...

The Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (PL 110-343), which became law on October 3, 2008, goes into effect on January 1, 2010. It had been projected that the regulations would...

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Senate Health Care Bill Ripe with Tax Increases for EVERYONE!

I would mention Obama’s promise he made about not raising anyone’s taxes if they make under $250,000 a year, but he broke that one months ago when he signed the SCHIP tax into law. Also, one of the few health care services to...

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Health gets personal in the cloud - Google Health Beta and Microsoft's My Health Info

Healthcare in the near future will be quite different than it is today. Web enabled technology is already changing the way medicine is practiced. As the digital nation comes of age we will see new opportunities, and new...

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Aetna, Hospitals Resolve Dispute On Reimbursement

Aetna and the parent company of Hartford Hospital, MidState Medical Center and Windham Hospital have reached an agreement on reimbursement rates, ending the possibility that the hospitals would leave the insurer's network.

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Obama's Flawed Prescription For Health Care

The House of Representatives has already passed its health-care bill and now the Senate is preparing to vote on its own. Should it pass, the largest new entitlement program since the New Deal will be a reconciliation process...

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Urgent Message: UniCare Exiting Illinois Commercial Health Insurance Market

CHICAGO, Nov 19, 2009 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- UniCare members in Illinois need to elect to transition their coverage by December 1 On October 28, 2009, UniCare announced plans to exit Illinois' commercial health...

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