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  • July 2008

    • Racial 'Transplant Gap' Persists

      Chicago Tribune  |  Jul 8, 08 12:46 PM CDT

      Racial 'Transplant Gap' Persists

      (Newser) - 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  • blacks  • organ donor  • kidney transplant  • kidney  • dialysis

    • Nurses Raise Alarm Against Attacks at Work

      New York Times  |  Jul 8, 08 6:39 AM CDT

      Nurses Raise Alarm Against Attacks at Work

      (Newser) - 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

      New York Times  |  Jun 19, 08 3:37 PM CDT

      E-Records Improve Care, But Cost Discourages Doctors

      (Newser) - 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

      Associated Press  |  Jun 16, 08 5:51 AM CDT

      Dying Patients Helped by Docs' End-of-Life Talks

      (Newser) - 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)

      Salon  |  Jun 10, 08 2:55 PM CDT

      Left Has Won (Whoever Wins)

      (Newser) - 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

      Deseret News (Salt Lake)  |  Jun 9, 08 11:20 AM CDT

      Multiple Adult Stem Cells May Make Treatment Trickier

      (Newser) - 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

      Associated Press  |  Jun 3, 08 10:33 AM CDT

      McAuliffe: Clinton Won't Concede Tonight

      (Newser) - 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'

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Jun 1, 08 5:38 PM CDT

      Obama to Offer Clinton a 'Graceful Exit'

      (Newser) - 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