Labor news and information

Surgeons may have a new way to smoke out cancer. An experimental surgical knife can help surgeons make sure they've removed all the cancerous tissue, doctors reported this week.
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The American Academy of Family Physicians is catching some heat for its participation on the American Medical Association Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee, or RUC.
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Eye-care firms continue to be a hot target this year as pharmaceutical and medical-device firms see a growing market for ophthalmology procedures.
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One-year-old Ka'Lani is so fascinated by a round plastic toy that she doesn't see her mother, Ke'sha Scrivner, walk into the Martha's Table day care, chanting her name while softly clapping out a beat that Ka'Lani keeps with a few bounces on her bottom.
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For hundreds of thousands of primary-care physicians across the country, the era of unreimbursed evaluation-and-management, or E&M, care may finally be coming to an end.
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The U.S. Senate's HHS appropriations bill that started to advance this week is likely headed for a series of partisan political battles, including a fight over funding for state insurance exchanges.
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Delays in key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act last week last week are spawning congressional actions this week.
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Two days before Independence Day, the Obama administration launched a firecracker of an announcement: It would delay by a year the employer mandate set to go into effect Jan. 1, 2014.
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An effort to push Pennsylvania toward expanding Medicaid eligibility to hundreds of thousands of uninsured adults is dead for now after state Senate Republicans decided Wednesday against forcing the issue with the Republican House majority and Gov. Tom Corbett, who had apparently threatened a veto.
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Job cuts in healthcare are hardly rare these days, but St. Vincent Health's newly announced layoffs in Indiana will certainly grab some eyeballs.
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