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Medical 'Conscience Rule' may be ethical hot potato - USA Today Posted: 19 Dec 2008 11:50 AM CST USA Today Medical 'Conscience Rule' may be ethical hot potato USA Today - 4 hours ago Step aside, inaugural prayer furor, a new controversy is burning -- the Bush administration's newly approved "conscience rule" for health care workers. Health providers' 'conscience' rule to take effect Los Angeles Times Medical 'Conscience Rule' Is Issued New York Times Chicago Tribune - Boston Globe - Baltimore Sun all 402 news articles

Researcher Revives 'Shocking' Human Experiment - ABC News Posted: 19 Dec 2008 02:02 PM CST BBC News Researcher Revives 'Shocking' Human Experiment ABC News - 2 hours ago By AUDREY GRAYSON In the early 1960s, Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram shocked America when he demonstrated that ordinary people will commit acts of violence that conflict with their personal conscience and moral convictions if instructed ... Shocking study finds most will torture if ordered Reuters Experiment Shows Humans Still Unable To Say No To Authority ChattahBox CNN - BBC News - Discover Magazine - Telegraph.co.uk all 50 news articles

Report Card: CNY Nursing Homes - MSNBC Posted: 19 Dec 2008 10:00 AM CST dBTechno Report Card: CNY Nursing Homes MSNBC - 6 hours ago The Federal Government launched a new quality ratings system today.. which rates how nursing homes across the United States are doing. Nearly a Quarter of Nursing Homes Rated as Much Below Average MedPage Today Neighbors surpass Mass. in nursing home ratings Boston Globe The Evening Sun - Dallas Morning News - Houston Chronicle - Kaiser network.org all 824 news articles

CDC Warns of Drug-Resistant Flu Bug - WebMD Posted: 19 Dec 2008 01:56 PM CST ABC News CDC Warns of Drug-Resistant Flu Bug WebMD - 2 hours ago By Daniel J. DeNoon Dec. 19, 2008 -- A flu strain now spreading in the US is resistant to the flu drug Tamiflu, the CDC today warned in an official health advisory to doctors. Tamiflu's Troubles Forbes CDC Says Flu Strain Resistant to Tamiflu Wall Street Journal Post Chronicle - The Associated Press - SYS-CON Media - The Associated Press all 253 news articles

Doctor Cleared of Harming Man to Obtain Organs - New York Times Posted: 19 Dec 2008 10:51 AM CST Wall Street Journal Blogs Doctor Cleared of Harming Man to Obtain Organs New York Times - 5 hours ago By JESSE McKINLEY SAN FRANCISCO - A California transplant surgeon was acquitted on Thursday of a charge that he had intentionally harmed a donor to speed extraction of the patient's kidney and liver. Transplant surgeon acquitted in case involving potential organ ... Los Angeles Times Verdict is in: Roozrokh found not guilty in organ harvesting case MSNBC The Associated Press - Chicago Tribune - Wall Street Journal Blogs - International Herald Tribune all 255 news articles

Doctor: Face transplant patient 'very happy' with procedure - CNN Posted: 19 Dec 2008 04:52 AM CST Sydney Morning Herald Doctor: Face transplant patient 'very happy' with procedure CNN - 11 hours ago (CNN) -- Dr. Maria Siemionow, head of plastic surgery at the famed Cleveland Clinic, led a surgical team that recently performed the first face transplant in the United States. Video: Cleveland Doctors Discuss Face Transplant AssociatedPress Woman who received face transplant has yet to see her new face New York Daily News New York Times - Los Angeles Times - U.S. News & World Report - Reuters all 1,788 news articles

Mass. health plan has national appeal - Boston Globe Posted: 19 Dec 2008 12:55 AM CST The Money Times Mass. health plan has national appeal Boston Globe - 15 hours ago By Lisa Wangsness WASHINGTON - Key players in the debate over how to provide healthcare coverage for the nation's 47 million uninsured say they view Massachusetts' landmark 2006 law as an important model for what Washington could do and how to get it ... Massachusetts tops for insurance coverage United Press International Answers to Your Medicare and FEHB Questions Washington Post SmartBrief - Southern Maryland Online - Northern Colorado Business Report - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette all 238 news articles

Biogen says Tysabri PML patient dies in US - Forbes Posted: 19 Dec 2008 02:02 PM CST Biogen says Tysabri PML patient dies in US Forbes - 2 hours ago By Toni Clarke BOSTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Biogen Idec Inc said on Friday that a multiple sclerosis patient who had been diagnosed with a rare brain infection while taking its drug Tysabri has died, sending the company's shares down nearly 3 percent. Elan CEO Defends Tysabri Sales, Citing 'Good Progress' Wall Street Journal Blogs Tysabri causes third death Bizjournals.com Reuters - EasyBourse.com - Medscape - Boston Globe all 23 news articles

Budget Office Sees Hurdles in Financing Health Plans - New York Times Posted: 18 Dec 2008 09:34 PM CST Tapped Budget Office Sees Hurdles in Financing Health Plans New York Times - 18 hours ago By ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON - The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday that many of the health care proposals championed by President-elect Barack Obama and other Democrats would carry a high price tag and would generate only modest savings. Budget office studies impact of healthcare policies Reuters Major Government Report Scores Healthcare Reform Specifics MedPage Today United Press International - Kaiser network.org - Philadelphia Inquirer - Galen Institute all 38 news articles

Baby born with 'foot in brain' - BBC News Posted: 19 Dec 2008 06:07 AM CST ABC News Baby born with 'foot in brain' BBC News - 10 hours ago US surgeons operating on a brain tumour in a baby boy found a tiny foot inside his head. Doctors operated on three-day old Sam Esquibel after finding what looked like a microscopic tumour on an MRI scan. Foot Grows in Baby's Brain ABC News Tumor in Colorado newborn's brain contained foot The Associated Press USA Today - findingDulcinea - United Press International - Associated Content all 584 news articles

California Supreme Court allows good Samaritans to be sued for ... - Los Angeles Times Posted: 19 Dec 2008 02:02 AM CST Wall Street Journal Blogs California Supreme Court allows good Samaritans to be sued for ... Los Angeles Times - 14 hours ago The ruling stems from a case in which a woman pulled a crash victim from a car 'like a rag doll,' allegedly aggravating a vertebrae injury. 'Good Samaritan' can be sued after pulling friend from car wreckage Telegraph.co.uk Calif. Supremes Allow Suit Against Would-Be Rescuer ABA Journal The Associated Press - Wall Street Journal Blogs - Metropolitan News-Enterprise - WTVW all 132 news articles

FDA requests more data on J&J psoriasis drug - Forbes Posted: 19 Dec 2008 12:48 PM CST FDA requests more data on J&J psoriasis drug Forbes - 3 hours ago AP , 12.19.08, 01:39 PM EST Centocor Inc., a unit of Johnson & Johnson, said Friday the Food and Drug Administration requested additional information about its experimental drug to treat psoriasis. FDA holds off decision on J&J psoriasis drug Reuters Centocor gets FDA response on ustekinumab; UMich buys Pfizer's Ann ... FierceBiotech Bizjournals.com - FiercePharma - PR Newswire (press release) - Genetic Engineering News (press release) all 31 news articles

Research Panel Calls for EPA Assessment of Phthalates - Newsinferno.com Posted: 19 Dec 2008 01:30 PM CST Environment News Service Research Panel Calls for EPA Assessment of Phthalates Newsinferno.com - 2 hours ago A panel of the National Research Council has announced that there is sufficient scientific data to warrant an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) assessment of the health effects from cumulative exposure to toxic, plastic-softening chemicals known as ... EPA needs to consider effects of chemical barrage USA Today EPA has what it needs to determine phthalate toxicity, NRC says Science News InjuryBoard.com - Reuters UK - Scientific American - RedOrbit all 55 news articles

Hawaii Red Cross shelter closes doors - KHNL-TV/KHBC/KOGG Posted: 19 Dec 2008 01:20 PM CST Murfreesboro Post Hawaii Red Cross shelter closes doors KHNL-TV/KHBC/KOGG - 2 hours ago By Roger Mari - bio | email WAIANAE (KHNL) - They had little to begin with and now some people on the leeward coast will return to even less, now that the Red Cross shelter in Waianae is closing its doors. Red Cross shelter opening this afternoon in Findlay 1330 WFIN Red Cross announces fund drive leaders Murfreesboro Post MSNBC - Albert Lea Tribune - LeRoy Independent - Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com all 134 news articles

Official: tide of poultry death not from bird flu in east China ... - Xinhua Posted: 19 Dec 2008 10:59 AM CST The Standard Official: tide of poultry death not from bird flu in east China ... Xinhua - 5 hours ago BEIJING, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- The recent tide of poultry death in two cites in east China's Jiangsu Province was not from the infection of bird flu, said an agricultural official here on Friday. COA to release report on Kaohsiung bird flu case Taipei Times Chinese Regime Covers Up Bird Flu Outbreak For A Month The Epoch Times The Standard - Reuters - Wisconsin Ag Connection - IRINnews.org all 233 news articles

Woman wins $2500 in stop smoking contest - Chicago Tribune Posted: 19 Dec 2008 09:36 AM CST TVNZ Woman wins $2500 in stop smoking contest Chicago Tribune - 6 hours ago AP FORT WAYNE, Ind. - A 20-year-old Wabash woman is getting more than just better health by quitting her smoking habit -- she's also $2500 richer. Finns mull ban on candy cigarettes The Associated Press Right help key to quit success for women smokers Reuters Miller-McCune.com - Asia Pacific Media Network - WMTV - 93.1 WIBC Indianapolis all 219 news articles

First case of flu reported in NC - WRAL.com Posted: 19 Dec 2008 02:55 PM CST WNCT First case of flu reported in NC WRAL.com - 1 hour ago Raleigh, NC - State public health officials have confirmed North Carolina's first case of flu this season. The disease was diagnosed in a 38-year-old Wake County woman, who is recovering at home, officials said. State confirms season's first flu case Asheville Citizen-Times First Case Of Flu Reported In Wake County MyNC.com University of Florida - WNCT - News & Observer - The Newark Advocate all 22 news articles

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