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Spending on specialty drugs soar
Jun 6 2006 11:48PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Spending on high cost specialty drugs soared 17.5 percent last year and is expected to more than double by 2009, according to a report released Wednesday.
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Breast cancer worse for young black women
Jun 6 2006 9:50PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Younger black women who get breast cancer are far more likely than other afflicted women to have a particularly aggressive and lethal form of the disease, a study found.
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Transplant surgeon's daughter gets liver
Jun 6 2006 8:11PM (CT)
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Early morning telephone calls to transplant surgeon Bhargav Mistry's home in Fargo are not uncommon. But a call about a donor organ last week was special: A liver had been found for his 11-year-old daughter, Karishma.
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Officials warn of scarce bird flu vaccine
Jun 6 2006 4:04PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - States will get to decide how to ration scarce vaccine if bird flu triggers a worldwide epidemic, the nation's health secretary said Tuesday _ a decision that means where people live could determine their protection.
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Medicaid patients must show documentation
Jun 6 2006 12:47PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Tens of millions of low-income Americans will soon have to show their birth certificates or U.S. passports if they want to obtain health care through their state Medicaid programs.
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Indonesia plans immunizations after quake
Jun 6 2006 9:20AM (CT)
BANTUL, Indonesia (AP) - Health workers are starting a campaign of immunizations in Indonesia's disaster zone to prevent outbreaks of measles and tetanus among earthquake survivors, an official said Tuesday.
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