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Missouri estimates more than 220,000 of its poorest residents won’t get help from online insurance marketplace 27 Aug 2013 | 05:26 pm
JEFFERSON CITY -- Cathy Hattey, 59, a former factory worker from Warsaw, Mo., isn’t pinning her hopes for affordable health insurance on the online marketplace that opens Oct. 1. Though the insuranc...
Editorial: We get it. Republicans hate the Affordable Care Act 27 Aug 2013 | 05:15 pm
Americans get it: The Republican Party really hates the Affordable Care Act, which its diehards renamed Obamacare. The GOP did that so their base will be reminded that they have another reason to dete...
Akorn to expand eye drug portfolio with $640M Hi-Tech Pharmacal acquisition 27 Aug 2013 | 04:19 pm
Aug 27 (Reuters) - Specialty pharmaceutical company Akorn Inc will buy rival Hi-Tech Pharmacal Co Inc for $640 million in cash to expand its eye drug portfolio to other dosage forms such as oral liqui...
Space Medicine: When Every Gadget Counts 27 Aug 2013 | 03:17 pm
Early on, the possibility of space travel was put into doubt by one simple question: Would the human body survive the lack of gravity? Scientists were not sure how gravity would affect an astronaut’s ...
Thieves get away with office equipment and patient information in Illinois burglary 27 Aug 2013 | 03:25 am
NORMAL -- Advocate Medical Group patients in Central Illinois are among those whose personal information may be at risk after four computers were stolen in a burglary of an Advocate administrative bui...
The cloudy aspects of the Physician Payment Sunshine Act 27 Aug 2013 | 02:55 am
Another seemingly harmless bureaucratic initiative aimed at physicians sunk its taproot deep in the daily workings of medicine this month. The Physician Payment Sunshine Act promises transparency in a...
Fertile ground: Using your smartphone to get pregnant 27 Aug 2013 | 02:35 am
No one should be surprised that fertility is a burgeoning area of activity for iPhone and other app providers. I mean, seriously, the love affair that so many people seem to have with their phones wo...
China’s crackdown on drugmakers will lead to better, not worse investment environment 27 Aug 2013 | 02:15 am
BEIJING (China Daily/ANN) -- China has ordered investigations into alleged corrupt practices of some multinational pharmaceutical companies following the bribery scandal of British pharmaceutical gian...
Abuse-deterrent painkiller fails study goal, drugmaker Acura’s shares fall 27 Aug 2013 | 01:42 am
(Reuters) - Acura Pharmaceuticals Inc said a painkiller made with its abuse-deterrent technology did not show statistically significant results in reducing likability among abusers, sending its shares...
Women may be ‘inappropriately advised’ to stop breastfeeding or stop medications, but study finds many drugs are safe 27 Aug 2013 | 01:22 am
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many medications can be used safely by women who are breastfeeding and the benefits of breastfeeding outweigh most harms related to babies' exposure, a panel of pediatricia...
