Doctors say US plan will alienate
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Health care professionals across the state say a new federal program that will give $1 billion to hospitals nationwide that provide emergency care to undocumented
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A group of doctors from New Jersey is opposing a plan by Aetna Inc. to drop coverage of a type of anesthesia used during colonoscopies.
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The United States has criticized demands by Serbian caretaker prime minister Vojislav Kostunica for a hardline response from major parties if the West grants independence to Kosovo in a plan due to be disclosed on Friday.
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Medicare patients will likely have a  harder time seeing a doctor if proposed cuts to the program are  implemented, according to a survey of doctors released by the  American Medical Association on Monday.
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A panel of US public health experts says the country&#39;s epidemic of childhood obesity threatens to set back the medical advances that have decreased child mortality and extended life spans in the past century.
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In a tug of war over the skyrocketing costs of medical technology, the makers of implantable defibrillators are opposing a plan by Medicare to track the health outcomes of patients who get the devices.
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British heart doctors are trying to defeat a proposal to end government coverage of drug-coated heart stents, tiny metal-mesh tubes that prop open clogged arteries.
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Health experts denounced President George W. Bush's 2009 federal budget request on Monday, calling it a disaster for the health of Americans and saying they would look to Congress to change it.
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Internet sales of prescription drugs to U.S. consumers could be banned by Canada if a proposal being drafted by health officials is approved, changes that would essentially kill a &#36;700 million industry that has become increasingly popular with underinsured patients in search of cheaper medicine.
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A mass exodus of GPs from the NHS is being considered by the British Medical Association as it steps up its campaign against the government's plan to impose extended surgery opening hours in England, internal documents have revealed
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Rising cost projections for the new  Medicare drug benefit alarmed U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday and  set off renewed calls to restrain spiraling drug prices and  allow pharmaceutical imports from Canada.
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WASHINGTON - Angry US diplomats lashed out yesterday against a State Department plan that would send them to Iraq against their will, with one likening it to "a potential death threat" and another accusing the department of providing inadequate care to diplomats who have returned home traumatized
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The federal government predicted Monday that the supply of doctors who specialize in treating critically ill patients probably won't keep up with the demand of the country's aging population.
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U.S. quarantine law is in dire need of an update to protect patient rights, say legal experts.
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America is "very concerned" about healthcare in retirement. That's okay with us.
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Proposals to reorganise hospitals across west Wales may be put back because of fierce public opposition.
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A small but influential group of US pediatricians issued a sharply partisan statement Wednesday criticizing President Bush&#39;s track record on child health.