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Just weeks before the long-awaited publication of a new edition of the so-called bible of mental disorders, a prominent expert says the book suffers from a scientific “lack of validity.”
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Peter Nguyen was a promising medical student when his school learned that he had tested positive for the hepatitis B virus. He said he was blackballed by school administrators and forced to halt his studies.
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Allison Guarino understands the controversy over new rules allowing 15-year-olds to buy the morning-after pill without a prescription. But as someone who teaches pregnancy prevention to ninth-graders in Boston, she thinks lowering the age will "help the girls who need the help the most."
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Two years ago, over objections from the hospital industry, the U.S. announced it would add data about “potentially life-threatening” mistakes made in hospitals to a website people can search to check on safety performance. Now the CMS is planning to strip the site of the eight...
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The Obama administration on Wednesday appealed a federal judge's order to lift all age limits on who can buy morning-after birth control pills without a prescription.
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While recent research showed small, rural hospitals registered worse mortality outcomes than their larger urban and suburban counterparts, they fare no worse than their larger counterparts on mortality following common, low-risk surgical procedures, such as appendectomy and knee replacement.
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In its newly released proposed inpatient hospital payment rule for 2014, the CMS plans a slew of performance-based payment changes, including a penalty program for hospital-acquired conditions and updates to the agency's readmissions reduction program that would expand the parameters for...
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A new draft bill would establish different regulations for traditional compounding pharmacies and what the legislation is calling “compounding manufacturers,” the large-scale compounders that mix and ship sterile drugs across state lines.
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House lawmakers pressed a Food and Drug Administration official on the need for a federal “track-and-trace” system that would boost the security of the pharmaceutical supply chain in the U.S. at a time when counterfeit or substandard drugs are increasingly of concern.
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Doctors increasingly treat people using tiny cameras, and some patient-safety experts are urging physicians to hit the record button.
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