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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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NEW YORK—Amid upheaval in Brooklyn's hospital industry, a study released last week captures the health needs of residents in some of the borough's poorer neighborhoods who suffer from high rates of chronic illness. Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Brownsville and Crown Heights residents...
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A northern New Jersey doctor was sentenced Friday to nine years in state prison after he admitted to hiring a hit man to kill his lover and a former business partner, authorities said.
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Cooper University Health Care in Camden, N.J., plans to take a 20% stake in AmeriHealth New Jersey and develop an accountable care model with the health insurer.
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A cardiologist with offices in New York City and New Jersey has admitted taking part in a scheme that subjected thousands of patients to unnecessary tests and treatment and resulted in $19 million in bogus bills, the largest case of healthcare fraud ever by a practitioner in either state,...
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In Florida, one wellness program that offered smokers a financial incentive to get help to quit drew just two participants in five years. And in Pennsylvania, patients in a cash lottery were eligible for prizes when they took medication as scheduled. Patients reported a sharp drop—to a mean...
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A Georgia compounding pharmacy recalled all lots of its sterile products distributed since Oct. 19 based on concerns federal regulators raised about the company's practices.
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The Food and Drug Administration warned doctors and hospital managers Monday about a nationwide recall of all drugs made by a New Jersey compounding pharmacy because of possible mold contamination.
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If Texas Gov. Rick Perry is feeling pressure to expand healthcare coverage to more than 1.5 million people under Medicaid, he sure isn't showing it.
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie proposed an 11% bump in funding for graduate medical education, Garden State officials said Friday.
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