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The battle Sarah Palin has waged over competition in health care has been one of her signature efforts since she became governor, and it offers a look at how the VP nominee would approach a complicated policy dispute, the Washington Post reports. www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/05/politics/washingtonpost/m...
Substandard science has hurt a federal agency's seven-year effort to document possible links between industrial pollution and health problems in the Great Lakes region, an independent review panel said Friday. The Institute of Medicine said drafts of a report... www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/09/05/financi...
Substandard science has hurt a federal agency's seven-year effort to document possible links between industrial pollution and health problems in the Great Lakes region, an independent review panel said Friday. news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080905/ap_on_bi_ge/great_lakes_health_...
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20080905/hl_hsn/healthhighlightssept520...
A health research advocacy group recently sent a questionnaire to both campaigns asking for policy details on issues such as health care coverage, stem cell research, the Medicare prescription drug benefit, and funding for NIH, FDA and CDC. Mary Woolley, president of Research!America, talks about the candidates' responses. www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94299324&ft=1&...
Aceto Corp., which distributes chemicals and generic drugs, said its profit climbed 90 percent in the fiscal fourth quarter due to better sales of Health Sciences products and weed killers. biz.yahoo.com/ap/080905/earns_aceto.html?.v=1
In the series' final installment, "GMA" looks at McCain's health care plan. abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=5729486&page=1
Health care is complicated, and the doctors, hospitals and clinics providing the services don’t have it much easier. That’s where MedAssets comes in. biz.yahoo.com/smallcapinvestor/080905/10924.html?.v=1
ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 4 -- When Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin took office, she inherited a vexing health-care problem common to many states: whether to let small clinics compete freely against hospitals for such services as outpatient surgery and MRIs. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2...
As if you needed another reason to skip sprouts. The Oregon State Public Health Division and U.S. Department of Agriculture are warning the salad-crazed away from Sprouter's Northwest brand alfalfa sprouts, tying the health food staple to a salmonellosis outbreak. www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/public_health_offi...
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