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By Modern Healthcare | May 18, 2013
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Celebrity impact | Benefits, risks seen in hype over Jolie's disclosure
By Jaimy Lee | May 18, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Celebrities drive average Americans to want what they have. That powerful impulse can even influence grave healthcare decisions and could prove complicated for women who fear they're at high risk for breast cancer after Angelina Jolie's disclosure that she underwent a preventive double...
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Video Feature: MGMA-ACMPE's Dr. Susan Turney (4:10)
By Modern Healthcare | May 18, 2013
Modern Healthcare's Washington bureau chief Jessica Zigmond talks with Dr. Susan Turney, president and CEO of the MGMA-ACMPE.
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Ohio health workers' criminal checks to be expanded
By The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch | May 16, 2013
With a $2.1 million federal grant, Ohio will expand a database for background checks allowing healthcare companies to be immediately notified if workers have been convicted of a crime that would ban them from the job.
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Melanoma treatment harnesses immune system to combat cancer cells
By New York Times | May 16, 2013
Cancer researchers are growing increasingly enthusiastic about harnessing the body's own immune system to fight tumors.
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Obama planning June 3 mental health conference
By Associated Press | May 15, 2013
President Barack Obama is planning a mental health conference next month in response to gun violence.
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New CPR technology breathes life into patients dead 40 to 60 minutes
By Washington Times | May 15, 2013
New CPR technology put to the test at an Australian hospital has passed with flying colors after a man—clinically dead for 40 minutes—was brought back to life. And he later was discharged with a clean bill of health, absent any disability.
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Jolie's disclosure of preventive mastectomy highlights dilemma
By New York Times | May 15, 2013
Actress Angelina Jolie has focused public attention on breast cancer by announcing that because she carries a cancer-causing mutation, she has had a double mastectomy.
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Technology mandates ruining primary care
May 14, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Regarding “Leap to ICD-11 not recommended: AMA board”: Our government is systematically decimating the practice of medicine in the U.S. It is past time to acknowledge the real costs and challenges of electronic documentation and the financial and physical toll our government has placed...
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Pa. health center implements telemedicine programs
By StateCollege.com | May 14, 2013
State College, Pa.-based Mount Nittany Health joins a rising number of healthcare facilities nationwide in implementing a robust telemedicine program aimed at improving patient care and satisfaction, as evidenced by two programs that rolled out recently—TeleBurn and TeleStroke.
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