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Health Law Rollout Effects: Delivering 'Accountable' Care, Device Tax, Nursing Mothers - 
Today's updates on the continuing implementation of the health law include Medicare chief Don Berwick's behind the scenes push for 'accountable care organizations,' tax anxiety in the medical device industry, and the promise of new help for pregnant women. The Boston Globe: "Newly installed Medicare chief Donald Berwick, keeping a low public profile after encountering controversy over his ...
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Health briefs for Sept. 1 - 
Children's dental clinic receives grant Give Kids a Smile, a nonprofit agency based in St. Peters that provides dental care to uninsured and underserved children, has received a $100,000 grant from the Missouri Foundation for Health.
- Found: 12 hours ago

The cure for MS includes healthy skepticism and a dose of hope - 
Ethics and budgets demand that rigorous research precede clinical trials of Dr. Zamboni’s liberation treatment
- Found: 10 hours ago

Quality-of-life care must start right away - 
Theresa Brown's thoughtful essay on end-of-life care reminded me of a recent clinical encounter. It was a hot July afternoon when I found myself in a quiet hospital lounge, having "the family discussion" with a patient newly admitted to my medical service, a sweet middle-aged woman whose lung cancer had spread so extensively that it now encircled the vital vessels of her chest.
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Parkinson's focus of doctor's talk in Surprise - 
Dr. Holly Shill, neurologist and movement disorders specialist at Banner Sun Health Research Institute's Cleo Roberts Center for Clinical Research, will discuss the symptoms, diagnosis, risk factors and causes of Parkinson's disease, as well as current Parkinson's medications and how they work.
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FDA Warns Tea Drink Makers About Unsubstantiated Claims - 
Ever heard of tea-flavored beverage makers making health claims for their teas which really should only be made for properly brewed tea? It seems the FDA (Food and Drug Administration, USA) has, and is warning both Dr. Pepper Snapple Group about its Canada Dry Sparkling Green Tea Ginger Ale and Unilever Americas over its website claims and labeling for Lipton Green Tea. It accuses them of making ...
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$1.5 million grant to teach U of L students how to ease pain, comfort dying - 
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a grant of $1.5 million to a team from the University of Louisville to create a palliative care education program to teach future doctors, nurses and social workers to meet the physical, spiritual, emotional and psychological needs of cancer patients.
- Found: 3 hours ago

Should bullfighting be banned? - 
Catalonia has voted to outlaw the traditional sport. What will this mean?
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Abuse of pain pills is a growing menace - 
The number of people seeking treatment for prescription opioid abuse has increased 400 percent. More medical coverage: mySA Health
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MCG Nurse Scientist Investigates Trauma-Induced Sepsis - 
An emergency room nurse's curiosity about why some trauma patients develop sepsis while others don't has led to an expanded career as a researcher studying the question. Dr. Beth NeSmith, assistant professor of physiological and technological nursing in the Medical College of Georgia School of Nursing, has received a three-year, $281,000 National Institutes of Health grant to examine risk ...
- Found: 9 hours ago