Drug safety officials Tuesday imposed the government’s most urgent safety warning on Cipro and similar antibiotics, citing evidence that they might lead to serious tendon ruptures that could leave patients incapacitated and needing extensive surgery.
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Medicare proposed new rules Thursday to curb marketing abuses that have cropped up as the role of private insurance plans has grown in the giant healthcare program for the elderly and disabled.
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Pat Lawrence’s bustling catering business in San Francisco is so
small she doesn’t think she can afford health insurance.
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The government issued a new safety warning Friday for a skin patch
containing a potent painkiller that has been implicated in hundreds
of deaths, saying the patch poses unique risks that doctors and
patients often fail to understand.
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Americans could save $1.5 trillion in healthcare costs over the
next decade while covering the uninsured and improving overall
quality, according to a report to be released today.
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When the year began, the expectation was that the new
Democratic-led Congress and President Bush would make some headway on
the problem many voters placed at the top of the nation’s domestic
agenda – healthcare for the uninsured and rising medical costs that
are squeezing the middle class.
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Best known for deciding whether medications are safe and
effective, the Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to
crack down on plain old salt, which doctors say is harmful in the
quantities most Americans consume.
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The political controversy over restrictions on federal funding for
embryonic stem cell research is unlikely to end with Tuesday’s news
that mature human cells can be made to acquire the powers of
embryonic stem cells, because scientists say research on both types
of cells is closely related and is needed to inspire and cross-check
each other.
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The leading small-business organization, a lobbying juggernaut
that helped kill President Clinton’s health plan in the 1990s, plans
to announce today that it is signing up with a diverse political
coalition promoting access to affordable healthcare for all.
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