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July 2008
- Obama Health Care Cure May Prove Elusive
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 23, 08 8:09 AM CDT
  
  In a campaign that has made several big promises, perhaps Barack Obama's most ambitious vow is that he will bring down health care premiums by $2,500 by the end of his first term as president. But whether he can deliver that is an open question, writes the New York Times . Even if he can muster the political will to cut down a bloated system, the savings might not materialize. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • health care • health insurance • health care reform • health insurance premiums
- Here Comes Era of Activist Government
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 18, 08 10:17 AM CDT
  
  With daunting issues demanding immediate action—energy, the markets, and crumbling infrastructure to name but a few—the US is about to enter a phase of "government activism," writes David Brooks in the New York Times . Bad news for John McCain, right? Maybe not. As past periods of great change show, it is more often the conservatives leading the way in such eras . More »
  
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  John McCain • health care • politics • energy • financial markets • infrastructure • conservatives • change • Teddy Roosevelt
- A Medical Frontier: 100-Year-Olds In Surgery
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 18, 08 7:45 AM CDT
  
  Life expectancy in the United States keeps rising: more than 90,000 Americans have celebrated a 100th birthday, and experts foresee more than 1 million centenarians by 2050. As lifespans have grown, so too have medical efforts to treat the very old, from hip replacements to chemotherapy. But as the New York Times reports, the medical community is divided over both the efficacy and the ethics of surgery for the "late elderly." More »
  
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  health care • surgery • elderly • aging • heart surgery • geriatric medicine • centenarians
- US Health Care Stinks: Study
  
  newser | Reuters | Jul 17, 08 10:33 AM CDT
  
  The US health care system gets dismal grades in a ranking of 19 industrialized countries, Reuters reports. A private foundation looked at key indicators like efficiency and access, and found the US did very poorly despite spending the most money—putting it last on the list. Health-care dollars were squandered on administrative costs and illnesses caused by medical errors. More »
  
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  health care • public health • health study • health care costs • medical errors • mortality rates
- Obama Adds Hillcare to Health Plan
  
  newser | ABC News | Jul 14, 08 12:42 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama has modified his health care platform with a policy straight from Hillary Clinton’s book—and he gave her credit, calling it "an idea championed by my friend Hillary Clinton, who's been leading the way in our battle to insure every American." The addition is a tax credit for small businesses that provide good employee health care, ABC reports; the credit would cover up to 50% of premiums paid. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • health care • Latino voters • small business • tax credit
- Blood Clots Killed Woman in Waiting Room
  
  newser | CNN | Jul 12, 08 10:02 AM CDT
  
  The death of a woman on the floor of a Brooklyn hospital was caused by blood clots from extended inactivity, CNN reports. Chronic deep vein thrombosis formed clots in her legs that eventually reached her lungs. The case has drawn international attention after security-camera footage showed the woman falling to the floor and convulsing, with no one checking on her for an hour. She had sat in the waiting room for more than 24 hours. More »
  
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  New York City • health care • hospital • Brooklyn • autopsy • negligence • blood clots • psychiatric treatment center • Esmin Green • deep vein thrombosis
- Racial 'Transplant Gap' Persists
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | Jul 8, 08 12:46 PM CDT
  
  Financial struggles and difficulty finding donors—as well as an unclear “transplant gap”—make African Americans less likely to get kidney transplants than whites, the Chicago Tribune reports. Many remain on dialysis, making daily life harder and increasing the risk of death. “You can explain most of the discrepancy, but you still have a gap that you can't explain,” says a doctor. More »
  
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  health care • organ donor • blacks • kidney transplant • kidney • dialysis
- Nurses Raise Alarm Against Attacks at Work
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 8, 08 6:39 AM CDT
  
  People may be at their most human when in pain, but often turn their anguish on their would-be healers—and now nurses are calling on workplaces and lawmakers to be more vigilant against physical attacks, the New York Times reports. “Nurses are just starting to get to the place where they’re saying, ‘I don’t have to put up with this,’” said an expert. More »
  
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  health care • assault • hospitals • nurses
June 2008
- E-Records Improve Care, But Cost Discourages Doctors
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 19, 08 3:37 PM CDT
  
  Doctors aren’t using electronic health records, though they lead to better care, a study reports. Why? The costs are prohibitive, especially for small private practices. E-records do bring savings—but for insurers and hospitals, not doctors who invest in them. The government is experimenting with financial incentives for doctors to switch over, the New York Times notes. More »
  
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  health care • doctor • medical records • health care industry • online medical records
- Dying Patients Helped by Docs' End-of-Life Talks
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 16, 08 5:51 AM CDT
  
  While only a third of terminally-ill cancer patients received end-of-life talks from their doctors, those who did fared better, a study has found. Doctors who hedge may think they’re protecting their patients, but patients who got the talk were no more likely to get depressed, avoided living their final days in hospitals, and didn’t spend on expensive, futile care, the AP reports. More »
  
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  cancer • health care • doctor • oncology • end of life care
- Left Has Won (Whoever Wins)
  
  newser | Salon | Jun 10, 08 2:55 PM CDT
  
  After 4 decades, the conservative revolution launched by the likes of Goldwater and Buckley is not only washed up, Michael Lind writes in Salon, it failed "completely, undeniably and irreversibly." The structure of 20th-century American liberalism is intact, if battered, he writes, and liberals should stop worrying so much. No matter who wins the election, “prospects for the moderate, reformist center left” are better now than in half a century. More »
  
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  John McCain • climate change • health care • evangelicals • conservatism • New Deal
- Multiple Adult Stem Cells May Make Treatment Trickier
  
  newser | Deseret News (Salt Lake) | Jun 9, 08 11:20 AM CDT
  
  There is probably more than one type of adult stem cell in the intestines and other organs, a University of Utah researcher finds—which means therapies based on the cells could be more complicated than expected. Scientists had hoped a single stem cell could fix damage to an entire organ, but the findings suggest the power of one cell could be limited, the BBC notes. More »
  
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  health care • medicine • stem cell research • organs • Mario Capecchi
- McAuliffe: Clinton Won't Concede Tonight
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 3, 08 10:33 AM CDT
  
  The Clinton campaign strenuously denied an AP report today that Hillary Clinton will concede defeat in the Democratic delegate race tonight in New York. Unnamed "top advisers" tell AP she won't formally drop out or endorse her Democratic rival, but she will acknowledge Obama's delegate win, and her campaign will be effectively over. Clinton campaign chief Terry McAuliffe denied the report in a phone interview on CNN. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • health care
- Obama to Offer Clinton a 'Graceful Exit'
  
  newser | Daily Telegraph (UK) | Jun 1, 08 5:38 PM CDT
  
  As Hillary Clinton's chances of winning the Democratic nomination wane, Barack Obama's camp is readying a consolation prize for the loser-apparent, the Daily Telegraph reports. In a "negotiated surrender," Clinton will likely be offered a cabinet post or the chance to lead a Senate charge on health care, an issue near and dear to her heart for more than a decade. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Obama 2008 • health care • Democratic nomination • Clinton 2008 • health care reform • Cabinet • health secretary
May 2008
- NYC Plans Organ-Recovery Ambulance
  
  newser | Washington Post | May 24, 08 10:45 AM CDT
  
  New York City is planning a “rapid-organ-recovery ambulance” that would collect the bodies of victims of sudden deaths to be used for organ transplants, hoping to ease a pressing need for donors, the Washington Post reports. But the idea has sparked controversy among health and bioethics experts, concerned over what it might mean for the role of emergency health care. More »
  
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  New York City • health care • organ transplants • organ donations
- Who's Afraid of Google Health?
  
  newser | Atlantic Monthly | May 23, 08 11:51 AM CDT
  
  Google's new health record-sharing service has privacy advocates' hearts racing. But the benefits outweigh the risks, both in costs and potential lives saved, James Gibney argues in the Atlantic. Ready access to personal health records could prevent medical errors like incorrectly prescribed meds while saving billions in related costs. More »
  
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  Google • health care • online privacy • opinion • information technology • Google Health • health records
- Detained Immigrants Dying for Lack of Health Care
  
  newser | Washington Post | May 11, 08 8:49 AM CDT
  
  The number of detained immigrants has skyrocketed since 9/11, and many do not receive critical health care in overburdened federal detention centers, the Washington Post reports. Several immigrants, detained for minor offenses or waiting to seek asylum, received little or no care for life-threatening symptoms which finally killed them, a Post investigation found. More »
  
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  Bush administration • immigration • health care • immigrant • detainee • Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- Patients Have Bone to Pick With Squeaky Fake Hips
  
  newser | New York Times | May 11, 08 8:10 AM CDT
  
  Ceramic artificial hips are far more durable than their metal and plastic counterparts—but frustrated patients are complaining that they squeak. It's embarrassing. “It can interrupt sex when my wife starts laughing,” said one. But some doctors fear it could be a sign that the ceramic replacements aren’t as durable as advertised, the New York Times reports. More »
  
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  health care • joint pain • hip replacement
- Spain Opens Second Life Clinic for Teens
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | May 10, 08 5:54 PM CDT
  
  Spanish health officials are opening a virtual clinic in the popular online world Second Life, where they plan to advise teens who are too shy to consult flesh-and-blood doctors, the Guardian reports. It will appear as a consultation room for now, but officials hope to expand the service and eventually “deal with problems of dermatology and psychology through a webcam," one doctor said. More »
  
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  Internet • health care • Spain • doctor • Second Life • medical treatment • teen health • avatar
- Illegal Workers Must Rely on Healers, Home Remedies
  
  newser | New York Times | May 10, 08 12:50 PM CDT
  
  Faced with high medical costs and fearing deportation, many illegal immigrants avoid doctors and instead seek their cures among traditional healers, the New York Times reports. With an estimated two-thirds of illegal immigrants uninsured, visits to a doctor are often reserved for emergencies. Instead, the immigrants—most of whom toil in demanding jobs where injuries are common—turn to herbal remedies and incantations, or substitute massages for more substantive care. More »
  
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  health care • public health • illegal immigrant • alternative treatment • herbal medicine

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