Shingles sends 1 million to doctors each year
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Shingles sends nearly 1 million Americans to their doctors every year seeking relief from the painful symptoms the virus causes, according to U.S. government statistics released on Wednesday.
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Vaccinating children against chickenpox saves the U.S. health care system nearly &#36;100 million a year in reduced hospitalizations for severe cases of the itchy disease, a study found.
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Chicago - Vaccinating children against chicken pox saves the US health care system nearly $100-million a year in reduced hospital visits for severe cases of the itchy disease, a study found.
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Scientists are awarded Â£1.3m to develop new drugs to combat a painful skin condition.
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More than 1m prescriptions are made for obesity drugs a year - eight times the number dispensed seven years ago.
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Clogged heart arteries and pregnancy  are the two most expensive conditions contributing to $790  billion in annual hospital costs in the United States,  according to a government study released on Friday.
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MedImmune Inc. will provide an additional 1 million doses of its FluMist nasal-spray vaccine this year to help the country overcome a shortage of flu shots, US health officials said yesterday.
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Americans made an estimated 890 million  visits to the doctor in 2002, a 1 percent increase from the  previous year, according to a survey released on Thursday by  the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Vaccinating children against chickenpox saves the American health care system nearly $100 million a year in reduced hospitalizations for severe cases, a study has found.
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Clogged heart arteries and pregnancy   are the two most expensive conditions contributing to $790   billion in annual hospital costs in the United States,   according to a government study released on Friday.
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The Agriculture Department sent $1.1 billion in farm payments to more than 170,000 dead people over a seven-year period, congressional investigators say.
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More than 1000 people who underwent brain or spinal surgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, in Australia, over the past 18 months have been warned by hospital officials that they may have been exposed to the brain wasting disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
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Americans made an estimated 890 million visits to the doctor in 2002, a 1 percent increase from the previous year, according to a survey released Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Canada needs to invest $1 billion over the next five years to reverse its serious shortage of doctors and ensure there will be enough health-care providers in future to reduce long waiting lists plaguing hospitals, the Canadian Medical Association says.
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(HealthDayNews) -- Shingles, or herpes zoster, is caused by the chickenpox virus that remains dormant in people who had the virus as children or young adults.
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Nearly half of all family doctors have annual earnings in excess of Â£100,000, figures show.
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According to a new study, governments that pay for their children to be vaccinated against chicken pox save millions of dollars and have far fewer people being admitted to hospital.