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NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of some top managed care companies were up at the close of trading: Aetna rose $.66 or 2.3 percent, to $29.82. CIGNA rose $.08 or .3 percent, to $30.96. Coventry Healthcare rose $.69 or 3.1 percent, to $22.68. Humana rose $1.06 or 2.6 percent, to $41.51. UnitedHealth rose $.46 or 1.6 percent, to $29.13. WellPoint rose $1.36 or 2.7 percent, to $52.36.
As Governor David Paterson prepares to take an ax to state health care spending and legislative hearings are being concluded, a representative for more than 100 continuing care facilities has some advice: “It’s the wrong reform at the wrong time.”
Though Boston University’s Student Health Insurance plan through Aetna Health Insurance is costly, it efficiently provides students with necessary coverage, they said....
Aetna rose $.15 or .5 percent, to $29.31. CIGNA fell $.25 or .8 percent, to $30.63.
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Abortion opponents in the Senate are seeking tough restrictions in the health care overhaul bill, a move that could roil a shaky Democratic effort to pass President Barack Obama's signature issue by year's end.
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- New York Governor David Paterson said “there has been progress” toward an agreement with legislators to close $10 billion in estimated budget deficits over the next two years.
As advocates push for a vote on same-sex marriage in the State Senate, Senator Rubén Díaz Sr. is back in a familiar role — dissenting from many of his colleagues.
"GMA" investigates spinach and leafy green safety standards.
Nearly 24 million Americans have diabetes; another 57 million have prediabetes, a precursor to the disease. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that if the diabetes epidemic continues, one in three Americans will develop it in his or her lifetime.
For 20 years, depression dogged Stan Dowery. "It always felt like there was a cloud over me," says Dowery, who lives in the South Side Kenwood neighborhood. "I never felt that I would get better."
Americans frustrated with shortages of swine flu vaccine place slightly more blame on drug companies than the federal government, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup poll out Monday.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.----Humana Military Healthcare Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Humana Inc. , encourages TRICARE South Region beneficiaries to get their H1N1 influenza vaccinations in an effort to reduce the spread of the virus.
In a rare speech to the state legislature in special session, Gov. David A. Paterson said that deep cuts were urgently needed.
(AP:NEW YORK) Shares of some top managed care companies are up at 10 a.m.: Aetna rose $.62 or 2.1 percent, to $29.78. CIGNA rose $.58 or 1.9 percent, to $31.46.
The Food and Drug Administration needs three more months to review an application to a neuropathic pain drug being developed by XenoPort Inc. and GlaxoSmithKline PLC, the companies said.
