Health Care

$350 Million Prescription Drug Case Settlement Announced Today by Spector Roseman Kodroff &...

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Today McKesson Corporation, one of the nation's largest drug wholesalers, announced it would pay $350 million to consumers and health insurers, who were overcharged for several hundred prescription drugs since 2001. The...

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U. prepares for nursing school renovation

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A solid Portuguese marble statue of Florence Nightingale on Friday donned the bubble wrap it will wear for the next two years while upgrades are made to the College of Nursing at the University of Utah.

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cbc.ca: A CBC hidden camera captured this image of a pharmacist giving cash to a customer filing a prescription on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. cbc.ca

Downtown Eastside pharmacy closing indefinitely amid kickback allegations

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A Downtown Eastside pharmacy had its licence and its pharmacy manager's licences suspended, and was ordered to close indefinitely Thursday afternoon after it was found to violate "medicine management" issues.

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A new world of research possibilities with 'Emerging Model Organisms'

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EUREKALERT Contact: Ingrid Benirschke benirsch@cshl.edu Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory For scientists looking for a fresh research focus, a new catalog of model species includes essential laboratory methods, information and...

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17th Annual Congress on Women's Health convenes

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EUREKALERT Contact: Sarah Roberts sroberts@liebertpub.com Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News New Rochelle, NY, November 21, 2008A prestigious group of physicians, nurses, and allied healthcare providers will gather...

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Woman died after drugs mix-up - Commission

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A third case of a fatal drug mix-up has emerged, with a finding by the Health and Disability Commission about the death of an elderly woman. Coroners ruled this week that medication errors contributed to the death of a...

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Lutherans Secure 'Seeds for Today, Food for Tomorrow' in Zimbabwe

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The economic, political and social decline in Zimbabwe has taken a disastrous toll on the country's food supply and medical institutions, including four hospitals of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe (ELCZ). To help...

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Manage care shares endure post-election slump

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INDIANAPOLIS - The presidential election may have spread joy to Democrats across the country, but managed care shareholders have felt mostly pain while watching their sector's stock prices tumble since Nov. 4. President-elect...

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Zimbabwe: Fear of More Cholera Deaths As Pandemic Spreads

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Posted to the web 21 November 2008 Lucia Makamure And Wongai Zhangazha THE advice by MPs, civic society and medical personnel not to transfer water management from city councils to the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa)...

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Study Looks At Physicians' Likeliness To Refer Minority Patients To Clinical Trials

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"Factors Influencing Physician Referrals of Patients to Clinical Trials" (.pdf), Journal of the National Medical Association: The study, by University of South Carolina medical researchers, looks at physicians' attitudes and...

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