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Weighing costs in choosing cancer care
Mar 24 2008 6:41PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - You've just been diagnosed with cancer, and the doctor is discussing treatment options. Should the cost be a deciding factor? Chemotherapy costs are rising so dramatically that later this year, oncologists will get their first guidelines on how to have a straight talk with patients about the affordability of treatment choices, a topic too often sidestepped.
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Weighing costs in choosing cancer care
Mar 24 2008 6:41PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - You've just been diagnosed with cancer, and the doctor is discussing treatment options. Should the cost be a deciding factor? Chemotherapy costs are rising so dramatically that later this year, oncologists will get their first guidelines on how to have a straight talk with patients about the affordability of treatment choices, a topic too often sidestepped.
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Brazil staffs ERs in dengue outbreak
Mar 24 2008 6:22PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Brazil will send hundreds of health workers to Rio de Janeiro state to help overwhelmed emergency rooms that are reporting 80 new cases of dengue fever every hour, the health minister announced Monday.
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15 hepatitis infections tied to ex-nurse
Mar 24 2008 4:55PM (CT)
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - At least 15 military service members or their relatives are believed to have been infected with hepatitis by a nurse suspected of stealing their painkillers during surgery.
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UK to force drugmakers to share info
Mar 24 2008 4:49PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Britain plans to force pharmaceutical companies to share more information with regulators about clinical trials after an investigation recently concluded that GlaxoSmithKline PLC deliberately withheld information about an antidepressant.
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Don't just blame the chickens for flu
Mar 24 2008 4:45PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Intensive rice farming and large duck populations _ not the number of chickens raised _ may be the best predictors of where bird flu might develop in Southeast Asia, according to researchers reviewing outbreaks in Vietnam and Thailand.
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UN chief urges global fight against TB
Mar 24 2008 4:44PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. secretary-general on Monday urged stepped-up action to stop the global tuberculosis epidemic that is killing 4,000 people every day.
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Home bipolar disorder test causes stirs
Mar 24 2008 4:43PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Dr. John Kelsoe has spent his career trying to identify the biological roots of bipolar disorder. In December, he announced he had discovered several gene mutations closely tied to the disease, also known as manic depression.
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Home bipolar disorder test causes stirs
Mar 24 2008 4:43PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Dr. John Kelsoe has spent his career trying to identify the biological roots of bipolar disorder. In December, he announced he had discovered several gene mutations closely tied to the disease, also known as manic depression.
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Salmonella cases top 200 in Colorado
Mar 24 2008 4:43PM (CT)
ALAMOSA, Colo. (AP) - The number of suspected salmonella cases linked to an outbreak in this southern Colorado town topped 200 Sunday.
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