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Up to 1 in 5 children living in the U.S. have mental disorders, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about $247 billion is spent on children's mental health each year.
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(Story updated) President Barack Obama's highly anticipated fiscal 2014 budget released Wednesday proposes $5.6 billion in Medicare payment cuts for that year and about $400 billion in total federal healthcare savings over the next decade.
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Chelation therapy, a 1950s treatment for lead poisoning that has become an increasingly popular alternative medicine treatment for conditions as diverse as autism and heart disease, received a lukewarm endorsement from a government-funded clinical trial that is drawing criticism for its methods and...
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Jon Lorsch will join the National Institutes of Health this summer as the director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
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Federal authorities and healthcare providers continue to wrestle with conflicts that might taint decisions about which drugs reach patients. Concerns persist even as new federal rules that seek to improve transparency among providers and drug and device manufacturers go into effect.
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The National Institutes of Health is the world's premier medical science funding agency and has long held a special place in congressional hearts. It's hard to say no when your mission is finding the causes and cures for dreaded diseases. And when 80% of your $30 billion annual budget goes to...
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No one has been more effective than Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) in promoting transparency in medicine. From 2004 to 2010, he investigated undisclosed conflicts of interest between physicians and pharmaceutical and device companies. His findings helped lead to the Physician Payments Sunshine Act.
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As the National Institutes of Health faces about $2.5 billion in federal funding cuts next year (PDF), the American Society of Hematology emphasized the effect those reductions will have on...
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Without increased funding, a more diverse workforce, better management of data and the ability to attract the best talent, the U.S. may lose its position as the world's leader in biomedical research, warned the National Institutes of Health.
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Northrop Grumman Corp. has won a five-year, $30 million recompete of a contract to provide information technology and bioinformatics support services to the National Institutes of Health.
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