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UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News (UPI)
Stunning regenerative medicine study cited NASA renames observatory for Fermi Scientists grow cochlea hair cells U.S.: Global warming is biggest challenge … Health/Science news from UPI.
Health care company offers bike-sharing program (CNN.com)
(AP) — Some companies provide car service. Humana Inc. does bike share. The health care provider started a free bike-sharing program for its employees at its Louisville, Kentucky, headquarters about a year and a half ago.
Census: Fewer Americans lack health insurance (CNN.com)
Participation in government health insurance programs — particularly those aimed at children — increased from 2006 to 2007, leading to a decrease in the number of Americans lacking insurance, the U.S. Census Bureau said Tuesday.
Health and fitness (Daily Herald)
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Final Glance: Health Care Equipment companies (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Shares of some top health care equipment companies were mixed at the close of trading: Baxter fell $.02 or percent, to $68.26.
Providing Surgical Services Worldwide Should Be A Global Public Health Priority, Experts Urge (Science Daily)
In an editorial in this week’s PLoS Medicine, the journal’s editors outline five key reasons why providing basic surgical services universally should be considered a global public health priority.
Wayne County health fair today in Wayne (Detroit News)
The Wayne County Department of Public Health will hold a fair at 10 a.m. today inside its headquarters, 33030 Van Born Road in Wayne.
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DNC’s health-care statistics check out (Denver Post)
The claim: "We spend more on health care than any other country, but we’re ranked 47th in life expectancy and 43rd in child mortality."
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Look to Europe for health care model: CMA head (CTV.ca)
The new president of the Canadian Medical Association says Canada needs to look to European countries that have restored their health-care systems by including private clinics and changing funding formulas.
Health care solutions can come with own ailments (Republican-American)
Two years ago, the good people in my native Massachusetts came up with a solution to the health insurance crunch. Every adult in the commonwealth must have health insurance or face legal penalties. Residents now can choose from a panoply of new, cheap policies some as low as $250 a month.
Private health reforms ‘chaotic’ (The Australian)
THE ACT Government has broken ranks with its state peers to criticise the commonwealth’s "ad hoc reforms" to private health insurance.
Two Doctors, Nurse Charged With Health Care Fraud (FOX 2 News St. Louis)
Two St. Louis-area doctors and a nurse are indicted on multiple charges of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. They are accused of working together to defraud Medicare and Medicaid.
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Public Health officials link Listeria outbreak to Maple Leaf products;PMO (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
OTTAWA - Public health officials have apparently linked a deadly nationwide bacterial outbreak to recalled meat products from Maple Leaf Foods.
Can either candidate’s plan fix health care woes? (Dayton Daily News)
DAYTON Neither plan proposed by Barack Obama or John McCain will fix this nation’s health care system woes, local doctors say.
New Huntley health center a ‘Godsend’ (Daily Herald)
Madonna Frankel, 45, Lake in the Hills, woke up Monday, Monday, Aug. 18 with a terrible earache and dizziness. As she drove her son to football practice, she noticed the sign proclaiming that Immediate Care at the Centegra Health Campus-Huntley was opening.
Small business owner wary of presidential candidates’ health care solutions (Dayton Daily News)
KETTERING Small businesses feel health care costs in a big way.
Does Prevention Really Lower Health Care Costs? (Newsweek)
Cancer screening and other measures for heading off disease don’t always reduce health-care costs.
Row over health budget cut claim (BBC News)
A row breaks out between ministers and Labour, after the party claims health boards could lose 85m due to inflation.
Presidential candidates’ health care plans (Dayton Daily News)
Key points: Candidates’ health care plans
Health Highlights: Aug. 23, 2008 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: