Clarissa Niese has been featured in the Wall Street Journal for her creative approaches to marketing to women. Tire Discounters Inc. has named Clarissa Niese to the newly created position of chief marketing officer, executive vice ...
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Today's headlines include progress reports on health exchanges in Washington state and New York as well as poll results on Virginia's Medicaid Expansion. Kaiser Health News: Insuring Your Health: Advocates Worry That Drug Company ...
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Researchers consider infant mortality to be a key indicator of population health. Currently, the United States ranks 27th among industrialized nations in infant mortality, but rates within the U.S. vary significantly by race, socioeconomic ...
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LHC Group Inc. (NASDAQ: LHCG), a national provider of home health, hospice and comprehensive post-acute healthcare services, announced today that it has signed a definitive stock purchase agreement with BioScrip®, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIOS) to ...
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Clinicians and patients should use shared decision-making to select individualized treatments based on the new guidelines to prevent cardiovascular disease, according to a commentary by three Mayo Clinic physicians published in this week's ...
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If you really want to motivate teens to use sunscreen, you might try appealing to their vanity. A new study suggests that telling teens about the negative effects of sun exposure on their appearance is more likely to convince them to use ...
The president told the Fox anchor that he regrets his earlier comments that people who like their insurance would be able to keep it. Politico: Pre-Super Bowl, Obama Sparks With Bill O'Reilly President Barack Obama faced questions ...
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House Republicans are considering linking their support for raising the national debt to a repeal of the health law's risk corridors, which helps mitigate risk for insurers. In other news, lawmakers continue to weigh proposals to change how ...
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News outlets detail how patients still don't completely understand the benefits that are now available to them. Los Angeles Times: Medi-Cal Seen As Relief For Some, Confusing Burden For Others Supporters of national health care reform ...
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Raising the alarm against deepening income disparities in countries around the world, the head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) called today for a shift to more inclusive growth patterns – supported by redistributive ...
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The less education you have, the more your attitude counts when it comes to staying alive and well. That's the finding of a new study conducted by personality researchers from the University of Rochester and Brandeis University. They ...
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Women with schizophrenia are nearly twice as likely to experience pre-eclampsia, pre-term birth and other serious pregnancy and delivery complications as women without the condition, a landmark study by researchers at the Institute for ...
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A research consortium being coordinated at Saarland University is developing a novel sensor system for monitoring airborne contaminants that will provide high-quality indoor air without the energy losses typically associated with ...
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In a study to be presented on Feb. 6 at 3:15 p.m. CST, at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting-, in New Orleans, researchers will report that cervicovaginal (CV) microbiota differs in the late ...
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Adoption of new guidelines recommending screening mammography every two years for women ages 50 to 74 would result in breast cancer screening that is equally effective, while saving the United States $4.3 billion a year in health care ...
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