jueves, 17 de marzo de 2011

Pfizer recalls pain drug acquired in King deal


reuters.com - By Ransdell Pierson NEW YORK | Wed Mar 16, 2011 7:58pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Just weeks after completing its $3.6 billion purchase of King Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer Inc has recalled an opioid pain...

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health.gov.au -     182 new GPs will begin training in Queensland this year as the Australian Government continues to deliver national health reform benefits, helping Queenslanders to see and contact a doctor when...

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ama-assn.org - A third of surrogate decision-makers experience stress, guilt and other upsetting emotions related to their role in determining a loved one's care, according to a March 1 Annals of Internal Medicin...

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milenio.com - Victoria.- El funcionario estatal confirmó que las facultades de Medicina en Tamaulipas han decidido ya no mandar a sus médicos pasantes a comunidades rurales para evitar riesgos. “Los 272 centros ...

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newsworks.org - In the above excerpt from producer/director Claire Schoen’s Heart-to-Heart series, Regina Dyer relates her struggles with end-of-life care.We now have the technology to keep patients who are critic...

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fierceemr.com - A review of federal survey data in this month's Health Affairs shows that more than four in five (83 percent) office-based physicians could qualify for new federal incentive payments--through Medic...

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Shopping comes to health care: More hospitals post prices, negotiate costs


freep.com - Louy Elias, 24, of Farmington Hills receives treatment for leukemia at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. The financial counselors at the hospital helped Elias find money to cover his care. Medicaid w...

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nytimes.com - Blue Shield of California, a nonprofit insurer, on Wednesday withdrew its request to seek higher rates this year for individual policies amid stiff criticism from regulators and consumers. ...

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ama-assn.org - Residency program directors have significant concerns about how duty-hour standards that take effect in July will impact their ability to train residents, a new study says. Eighty-seven percent of ...

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symposier.com - Uploaded and shared in Youtube by: insidermedicine — From Michigan -- According to a report published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, certain diabetes drugs may raise risk of...

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bbc.co.uk - 16 March 2011 Last updated at 20:02 ET Drugs which can regulate levels of cholesterol in the blood may also reduce the risk of dangerous clots, say scientists. Blood clots can result in stroke or h...

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blogs.plos.org - Posted on March 16th, 2011 by Michael MorrisImage Credit: Nate Steiner Five new articles were published this week in PLoS Medicine, including two Perspectives, providing an expert’s view on researc...

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Palliative chemotherapy during the last month of life.


ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - The Research and Development Unit, Östersund Hospital, Östersund.AbstractBACKGROUND: This study analyses the potential discriminative characteristics for patients with incurable cancer who received...

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fiercepharma.com - From your personal checkbook to your nation's budget, everybody is trying to keep the books balanced these days. In Australia, they've decided to cut back on pharmaceutical subsidies. No new medici...

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online.wsj.com - BY LAURA LANDRO An organ recipient recently contracted the virus that causes AIDS from a live kidney donor in an unidentified city hospital, the New York State Department of Health said Tuesday. It...

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reuters.com - By Ransdell Pierson NEW YORK | Wed Mar 16, 2011 7:58pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Just weeks after completing its $3.6 billion purchase of King Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer Inc has recalled an opioid pain...

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rwjf.org - Pandemics challenge the law and often highlight its strengths or expose its limits. The novel strain of influenza A (H1N1) virus that emerged in the spring of 2009 and rapidly spread around the glo...