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  • A.M. Vitals: Caffeine Associated With Lower Risk of Depression in Women

    Tuesday, September 27th, 2011 at 22:38 | Comments Off

    Mood Lift?: A study shows that for women, drinking two to three cups of coffee per day is associated with a 15% lower risk of developing depression during a ten-year period, the WSJ reports. Other forms of caffeine were also tied to a lower risk of depression. However, this type of study can’t prove that caffeine prevents the condition.

    “Health-Care Juggernauts”: Kaiser Health News has kicked off a series on the growth and profitability of children’s hospitals. One ..read more

  • Want to Be a Vegan Like Bill Clinton? Here’s Some Food For Thought.

    Saturday, August 20th, 2011 at 07:15 | Comments Off
    Former President Bill Clinton, not reaching for a hamburger.

    Bill Clinton’s hamburger days are behind him, he says.

    The former president now thinks of himself as a vegan, he tells CNN’s Sanjay Gupta, eschewing meat, dairy and eggs. (No word on whether he’s traded recipes with fellow Democrat and vegan Dennis Kucinich.)

    Clinton adapted a plant-based eating pattern out of concern for his cardiovascular system — “to avoid any food that could damage his blood vessels,” CNN says. If you’ve considered going the ..read more

  • AM Report: Obama Tearing into GOP

    Wednesday, August 17th, 2011 at 00:28 | Comments Off

    The News Hub covers President Obama elevating rhetoric toward GOP candidates on his Midwest bus tour. Also, Texas governor Rick Perry hopes to charm potential voters with his tax-cutting resume. Plus Chinese construction companies digging into U.S. turf.

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  • PM Report: IMF Chief, EU Ministers, Markets, Trump

    Tuesday, May 17th, 2011 at 07:11 | Comments Off

    IMF chief Strauss-Kahn is ordered held without bail following an arraignment. Plus, EU finance ministers meet to debate more bailout money for Greece, stocks end lower, Donald Trump decided not to run for President and new life-saving methods.

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  • News Hub: New Methods Bring the Dying Back to Life

    Tuesday, May 17th, 2011 at 06:53 | Comments Off

    Ron Winslow discusses new medical techniques that are emerging to save lives when most body functions appear to have stopped.

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  • News Hub: Romney Defends Massacusetts Health Plan

    Friday, May 13th, 2011 at 07:35 | Comments Off

    Former Massachusetts governor and potential GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney defended the state’s health care plan he instituted. He also sought to distance himself from President Obama’s health care plan.

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  • A New Push for Patients to Take their Meds Correctly

    Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 at 23:34 | Comments Off

    New efforts are underway to help patients to take their prescription drugs correctly, amid a rise in emergency room visits and hospitalizations related to adverse outcomes from taking medications, today’s Informed Patient column reports.

    The FDA, through its Safe Use Initiative, is working with the Brookings Institution to evaluate a new single-page standard medication-information document — to be known as PMI, for Patient Medical Information. It would replace the plethora of material now handed out to patients with their prescriptions, including ..read more

  • Will There Be Enough Primary-Care Physicians To Treat New Medicaid Patients?

    Saturday, March 19th, 2011 at 03:37 | Comments Off

    Under the terms of the health-care overhaul law, about 16 million people will join the Medicaid rolls starting in 2014.

    But once that happens, will there be enough doctors, particularly those focused on primary care, to treat them?

    A study out this week from the Center for Studying Health System Change (CSHSC) comes to a sobering conclusion: in most areas of the country, growth in Medicaid enrollment will “greatly outpace” growth in the number of primary-care doctors who accept the joint federal-state ..read more

  • Senate Confirmation for Medicare’s Berwick Looks Tough

    Wednesday, March 9th, 2011 at 01:22 | Comments Off

    Donald Berwick, who became head of Medicare and Medicaid via a controversial (and temporary) recess appointment by President Obama, will have a tough time getting confirmed by the Senate.

    The road ahead looks so difficult that some Democrats are joining Republicans in calling for a new nominee, The New York Times reports. It’s a matter of math; 42 Republicans have already urged President Obama to pick someone else, and by voting accordingly, they could block confirmation, the paper says. A White ..read more

  • Romney Attacks Obama Health Care in New Hampshire

    Tuesday, March 8th, 2011 at 05:33 | Comments Off

    While speaking in New Hampshire, Mitt Romney attacked President Obama’s health care law while defending the policy he enacted as governor of Massachusetts. Courtesy Fox News.

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