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Archive for the ‘Health Care and Insurance’ Category

December 6th, 2007

Top 10 health stories of 2007

Published by the Harvard Health Newsletter, the top health news of 2007 are headed by drug failures and advancements in genetics.
Here is a summary of the news release.
1. Drug safety failures. This year, rosiglitazone (Avandia), a diabetes drug, became the latest medication found to have serious side effects that weren’t apparent when it was approved […]

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October 1st, 2007

What is the Children’s Health Insurance Program?

Not to sound political (this isn’t the blog for that) but lately, I’ve been hearing more and more about SCHIP - the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
‘What is it? Who currently benefits? What changes are going to happen? Why the buzz in DC?’ are just some of the questions that run through my mind as […]

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