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Frustrating an effort by nurses to hold off an incursion into their field of practice, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that qualified public school staff members, not just school nurses, are allowed to inject diabetic students with insulin.
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Mark Jones learned about the costs and benefits of healthcare delivery when he treated AIDS patients in Key West, Florida, in the late 1980s. The pharmacy he co-founded—unusual at the time—provided a humane last step for gay men who didn't want to spend their final weeks confined to a...
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A traveling hospital technician accused of infecting dozens of patients with hepatitis C through needles tainted with his own blood reached an agreement with prosecutors that would give him a sentence of as little as 30 years instead of the nearly 100 he could have faced if convicted in a trial.
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As the University of Texas prepares to open its medical school in Austin in 2016, it is negotiating the delicate agreements between public university and the religiously-affiliated health care provider who will train its doctors.
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Federal prosecutors in Milwaukee sued a Kentucky-based pharmaceuticals services firm on Friday, accusing PharMerica Corp. of illegally dispensing addictive narcotics without proper oversight.
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For 20 years, the CMS has not applied the federal ban on physician conflicts of interest known as the Stark law to Medicaid claims. It's focused on Medicare only. But private whistle-blowers have begun pressing for clarity on the issue because a 1993 law applying Stark to Medicaid remains on the...
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House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is vowing to prevent a vote on immigration reform even though the latest reports from Capitol Hill suggest as many as 40 or 50 Republicans are willing to back some version of the legislation that passed the Senate last June.
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Dr. Farid Fata, an Oakland County, Mich., hematologist-oncologist accused of running a $35-million Medicare fraud could be released from jail as soon as Friday.
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A federal judge ordered Zimmer Holdings to pay Stryker Corp. more than $228 million for infringing on Stryker's surgical irrigation patents.
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Three Catholic hospital systems can't deny abortion providers admitting privileges, the Wisconsin Department of Justice said in a legal filing.
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