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NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of some top managed care companies are down at noon: Aetna fell $.31 or 1.1 percent, to $29.13. CIGNA fell $.31 or .9 percent, to $32.33. Coventry Healthcare fell $.39 or 1.7 percent, to $22.46. Humana fell $.46 or 1.1 percent, to $41.27. UnitedHealth fell $.64 or 2.2 percent, to $28.80. WellPoint fell $.47 or .9 percent, to $53.77.
ATLANTA (AP) - Swine flu infections seem to be dropping, but the number of children who died with the illness rose by about 30, according to a government report released Monday.
On the Health Alert a policy that's wasting your money and putting lives in danger. Medical Reporter Stephanie Stahl uncovers the policy that everyone says doesn't make sense. 43-year-old Leonard Porter of Philadelphia is spending extra time with his children, fearing his days are numbered.
The U.S. Senate opened debate Monday on a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's health care system.
Six Massachusetts hospitals are suing the state, saying they were shortchanged by the 2006 health care law. The hospitals claim the state violated a law requiring health care providers be adequately reimbursed for caring for Medicaid and Medicare patients.
The Health District will help those without insurance get the swine flu vaccine.
The Broward County Health Department has opened seven locations for the general public to get H1N1 vaccines. The City of Coral Springs has a site at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts at 2855 Coral Springs Drive.
Companies Are Teaching Their Staffs About Hygiene, Distributing Info. and Advising Them to Stay Home If They Are Sick
ALBANY -- The state Comptroller's Office has cleared one company in its probe of how taxpayer money intended to attract and retain nurses who care for very sick children was actually spent.
WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Merck & Co. told the Supreme Court Monday investors waited too late and didn't do all of the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Merck & Co. told the Supreme Court Monday investors waited too late and didn't do all of the necessary investigations to sue the drug maker over whether it properly warned about the risks of its blockbuster painkiller Vioxx.
New York governor takes $1.6 billion in emergency cuts, cash transfers to pay December bills
November is American Diabetes Month(R) WASHINGTON, Nov.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Governor's Office of Health Care Reform has issued a draft strategic plan for the Pennsylvania Health Information Exchange, or PHIX, for a 30-day public comment period.
As vice chair of the Health and Human Services committee, state Sen. Linda Newell (D-Littleton) is working, like many, toward a solution to the current health care crisis.
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