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WASHINGTON (AP) — The former director of the National Institutes of Health is advising women to ignore new guidelines that delay the start of routine mammogram testing for breast cancer.
Lawmakers broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health care debate Sunday as a former National Institutes of Health chief urged women to ignore guidelines that delay the start of breast cancer screenings.
Kaiser Permanente Colorado is climbing its way to the top among the state's health-insurance companies, snagging a No. 1 national ranking and along with it, a significant chunk of the competition's business.
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GOSHEN — Two years ago, Orange County enlisted three firms to scour medical billing records and help recover an estimated $2 million per year misspent in the single largest expense in the county budget, Medicaid.
Lawmakers were all over the airwaves Sunday following the Senate's procedural vote on the health care overhaul bill -- and like the chamber's vote, the rhetoric and the predictions for going forward lined up along predictable partisan lines.
The first female to head the National Institutes of Health said Sunday she is advising women to ignore new recommendations by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which last week changed guidelines for mammographies from annually starting at age 40 to every other year starting at age 50.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- The former head of the U.S. National Institutes of Health says American women should ignore the mammogram recommendations of a government breast cancer panel.
The first female to head the National Institutes of Health said Sunday she is advising women to ignore new recommendations by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which last week changed guidelines for mammographies.
Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Democrats united to bring a sweeping health-care plan to the U.S. Senate floor in a party-line vote that kept Republicans from blocking debate on President Barack Obama’s top domestic initiative.
This weekend, thousands of Arkansans convened at the Statehouse Convention Center for a mass free health clinic, the first of its kind in Little Rock.
Anxious about how little maneuvering room the weekend victory on health care provided, Democrats are stepping up overtures to two moderate Republican senators from Maine.
Aetna Government Health Plans of Hartford, Conn., appears to have gained an unfair advantage in competing for TRICARE’s North Region support contract, valued at $16.7 billion, by hiring a former chief of staff at TRICARE headquarters to help the company draft its winning proposal.
Senate Democrats on Sunday sparred with each other over how to fix the nation's troubled health care system, the moderates threatening to scuttle legislation if their demands weren't met and the more liberal members warning their party leaders not to bend.
Senate Democrats, without a vote to spare, pushed forward a bill to overhaul the U.S. health care system, but a divisive debate lies ahead, and there is no assurance the measure as written will win approval in the upper chamber of the Congress.
President Barack Obama's U.S. healthcare overhaul plan has cleared an important Senate hurdle but lawmakers warned on Sunday of challenges ahead in winning support for passage, even among Obama's own Democrats.
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