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Senate Republicans have intensified their calls for scrutiny of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' efforts to raise money from private donors to help implement the healthcare reform law.
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Wall Street investors hungry for advance information on upcoming federal health-care decisions repeatedly held private discussions with Obama administration officials, including a top White House adviser helping to implement the Affordable Care Act.
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Rep. Scott DesJarlais, a licensed physician, was reprimanded and fined by the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners for having sex with patients before he was elected to Congress, according to documents released Thursday.
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Dallas' Parkland Health & Hospital System will pay $1.42 million and enter into a five-year corporate integrity agreement to resolve a 2010 lawsuit that alleged the hospital submitted improper claims to Medicare and Medicaid.
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Scientists have finally recovered stem cells from cloned human embryos, a long-standing goal that could lead to new treatments for such illnesses as Parkinson's disease and diabetes.
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Florida lawmakers ended their 60-day session Friday, waiting until the final hour to pass a $74.5 billion budget and then leaving town without passing a bill to extend healthcare coverage to 1.1 million Floridians.
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A study of conflicts of interest in leading cancer journals showed financial connections between authors and companies sponsoring phase 3 clinical trials had little impact on interpretation of the results.
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Physicians should exercise caution—and “pause before posting”—when interacting in online settings in order to preserve professionalism and maintain appropriate patient-physician relationships, according to a policy paper released today by the American College of Physicians...
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A federal agency found a number of universities failed to properly inform over a thousand families in a study involving extremely premature babies about potential risks, including blindness and death.
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A group of Vermont doctors and mostly Republican lawmakers gathered Wednesday to warn that if Vermont goes ahead with its plan to push toward a Canadian-style, single-payer healthcare system, the state will ''regulate the private practice of medicine in Vermont out of existence.''
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