Excluded groups want in on health information technology funding

By Kimberly Leonard

Economic stimulus package has $27 billion for health IT; excluded providers are fighting for a slice

Activist asbestos inspector faces threats, industry backlash

By Jim Morris and Marcelo Soares

Official endures threats, ostracism – and now a lawsuit for activism

Excerpts from this story referencing "Colombia":

"… of chrysotile asbestos, sending it to Asia and nations such as Mexico and Colombia. It is also the world’s fifth-largest asbestos user. An industry-funded …"

Proposed bill aims to expand health IT funds to mental health providers

By Kimberly Leonard and Josh Israel

Stimulus bill left many providers out, but costs of including them may doom the measure....
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Saints and sinners

By Peter H. Stone

Gingrich balances support of a casino owner with courtship of evangelicals

Excerpts from this story referencing "Sheldon Adelson":

"… ing the Future, has hauled in $7 million from one big financial backer — Sheldon Adelson, the multi- billionaire chairman of the Las Vegas Sands casino, who is exp …"

Analysis – The ‘Front Group’ hall of shame

By Wendell Potter

Today is the day health insurers and their allies plan to launch their brand new front group the Choice and Competition Coalition.

Special treatment for 'high profile' patients; exasperation for the rest of us

By Wendell Potter

The president's mother and his struggle for health care reform
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FDA screening of fish imports not catching antibiotics and drug residue

By Laurel Adams

FDA taken to task for sloppy inspections of imported fish

Unproven for older women, digital mammography saps Medicare dollars

By Joe Eaton, Elizabeth Lucas and David Donald

High-tech, digital mammography may not be any better at detecting breast cancer in women over 65 than older film-based systems, but Medicare

Excerpts from this story referencing "Cancer":

"… , for traditional Medicare-aged women, the results of a five-year National Cancer Institute sponsored trial released in 2005 suggest the machines find no mo …"

"… ee, Amy Langer, then executive director of the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations, warned that FDA missteps could cause manufacturers to give …"

"… e released the results of a massive five-year trial funded by the National Cancer Institute, the government’s principal agency for Cancer research. The Di …"

"… Another Way”Dr. Otis Brawley, the chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, said excellent breast care is a question of doctors, not a questi …"

Diesel dangers: Mining companies get first look at government cancer study

By Jim Morris and Chris Hamby

A long-delayed government epidemiological study of possible ties between diesel exhaust and lung cancer in miners may finally be published t

Excerpts from this story referencing "National Institute":

"… urce Group Diesel Coalition, accused the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) of “unfairly, unjustly and un …"

Brain cancer trial may influence science on toxic chemical

By Jim Morris

A McCullom Lake, Ill., plant, operated by Rohm and Haas, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical Co., is at the root of a potentially groundbreaking la

Excerpts from this story referencing "Cancer":

"… U.S. population at the rate of 6.4 per 100,000, according to the National Cancer Institute. But the town has recorded 13 benign brain tumors in addition to …"

"… vironmental Protection Agency and the International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization, have concluded that there is insuf …"

"… e that has afflicted 10 of the McCullom Lake plaintiffs.Link Between Brain Cancer, PVC Ingredient? Regardless of the outcome, the trial promises to tri …"

"… ins unclear.”A working group of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) considered Mundt’s study and others when it reviewed the scientif …"

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