Health care

Health care

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• Medicare overpaid nearly $20 billion last year
• New drug for insomnia approved
• Western states back medical marijuana
• 'On Death and Dying' author Kubler-Ross dead at 78
• New stamp to highlight sickle cell disease
• Florida high court hears right-to-die case
• Waiting game plagues world-renowned hospital
• New Web site will summarize select drug trials
• Medical journals to require public registry
• Implanted lens approved for nearsightedness
• Beef recalled over E. coli concern
• Study: Some airplane water is contaminated
• Report: Poor medical care kills thousands
• Boy struck by lightning slowly recovers
• Report: Cheaper drugs can be found in U.S.
• Kidney failure cases more than double in 90s
• Few Americans buy drugs online, study finds
• Vaccine-caused cases of polio nixed in U.S.
• FDA approves computer chip for humans
• New drug to treat multiple sclerosis OK'd
• Seattle woman dies after hospital mix-up
• Poll: Most confident in safety of U.S. drugs
• New clinics keep workers healthy on the go
• Sleepy interns make more medical mistakes
• More help needed for vets with Gulf War illness
• FDA adopts new rules to improve drug safety
• Minnesota tops nation as healthiest state
• New ID tag could prevent surgical errors
• Widely used Parkinson's drug may slow disease
• Some U.S. hospitals outsourcing work
• Growth rate of health-care spending levels off
• New study offers hope for paralysis patients
• Ensuring voting rights for the aging and mentally ill
• Is it really never too late to have a new baby?

• Airlines agree to new EPA drinking water tests
• 50th anniversary of first organ transplant
• Only some will benefit from Medicare plan
• Rio Grande Valley is among unhealthiest areas
• Surgically separated twins leave hospital
• Lawsuit fights immigrants’ unpaid hospital bills
• Medicare premiums to rise 17 percent in 2005
• At 84, man becomes oldest transplant patient
• Health care premiums jump 11 percent
• Rembrandt probably had lazy eye disorder
• Which is worse? Smoky bars or busy streets?
• FDA's home county backs Canadian drug plan
• U.S. health care worse off, says consumer group
• Vioxx woes raise questions about other drugs
• Drug effective for advanced hepatitis B
• Steroids may be harmful for head injuries
• For a Superman, a very common end
• Shorter rehab stays linked to more deaths?
• Man turns to Internet for a new kidney
• Hospital interpreters do more than translate
• White House defends drug import policy
• Medicare reveals drug plan coverage map
• Man denies selling his kidney over the Internet
• Medical studies to be available free to public
• Botulism case may be linked to Botox injections
• Nasal spray users sue over alleged loss of smell
• Report: Gulf War syndrome is real
• More patients turning to Internet for organs
• Holiday injuries: You better watch out ...
• Cavity fighter approved for human testing
• 44 percent of Americans take prescription drugs
• Flu shot shortage poses public health disaster
• The changing face of skin care

• Safety officials want bad drivers off the road
• AARP poll finds support for medical marijuana
• More states reviewing drug safety themselves
• Frozen chicken recalled for pieces of metal
• Fight over Florida woman heads to high court
• Pain-free surgery? Doctors say it's possible
• Chickenpox shots cut hospital costs
• Medicare cancer drug cuts double estimates
• Formerly conjoined twins developing well
• Girl dies after separation surgery from her twin
• FDA aims to reduce salmonella risk in eggs
• Harvard program to focus on patients
• Enrolling in medical studies may get easier
• Two states launch first import drug program
• Doctors urged to prevent waking during surgery
• Quality of hospital care for elderly varies widely
• Once conjoined Egyptian twins, a year later
• Seniors board the drug train
• Florida passes three-strikes malpractice law
• Saving time, preventing errors
• False perception about holidays and dying
• Medicare drug card enrollment falls short
• U.N. health agency targets medical mistakes
• Can apologizing avoid malpractice suits?
• FDA warns against decorative contact lenses
• Company offers generic drugs to poor people
• Transplant group discourages donor ads
• Study shows it’s tough to change sleep habits
• New policy stalls permits for foreign nurses
• More experts question drug safety system
• Benzene may pose risk in the workplace
• Stem-cell research a pawn in election politics
• The heart of the matter -- live healthy