Patients Won't Be Asked Immigration Status
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The Bush administration said that it was backing off plans to require hospitals to ask emergency room patients their immigration status.
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Nearly six in 10 eligible children whose parents applied for Medicaid in Virginia went without health care for weeks or months because of a new federal rule intended to prevent undocumented immigrants from receiving coverage, according to a state survey of 800 low-income families.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government has no plans to fingerprint landed immigrants from the United States when they visit Canada, says Immigration Minister Judy Sgro.
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The government says there are no plans to make it compulsory for all UK residents to be on the national DNA database.
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Plans for a screening facility at one of the nation's busiest land-border crossings were abandoned because of a disagreement over fingerprinting travelers, an outcome that has angered business groups in the United States and Canada.
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When patients with heart disease are brought to a hospital, why not suggest a screening for their family as well?
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Health Minister George Smitherman dismissed ``ridiculous&quot; opposition claims today that he has been intimidating hospital administrators across Ontario to remain silent about potential service cuts.
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The US government has launched a four-year, $1 billion program to pay some of the emergency room costs of treating illegal immigrants, but it has backed off plans to require hospitals to ask patients about their immigration status.
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Half of all GPs will consider refusing to put patient records on a new national database in, a survey finds.
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NEW YORK  - A survey of older Californians  shows that many -- especially women and Latinos -- are not  being screened for colorectal cancer as they should be.
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Private firms should not offer body scans to people without any symptoms, a government advisory panel says.
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Medicaid rolls declined in many states after Congress imposed new documentation requirements, but most of the drop-off appears to be among people eligible for coverage -- not among illegal immigrants.
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Do not always expect straight talk from your doctor about treatments he or she disapproves of -- 14 percent of physicians believe it is acceptable to withhold information about topics such as birth control, abortion and sedating dying patients, according to a study published on Wednesday.
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New procedures have been put into place at U.S. borders to stop flagged travelers such as the tuberculosis patient who sneaked across the Canadian border last month, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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Concerns raised over senior officers' threat to patient confidentiality.
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One in eight hospital patients are waiting for over a year, government figures show.
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When patients with heart disease are brought to a hospital, why not identify suggest a screening for their family as well?