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  • April 2008

    • Web Health Records Raise Privacy Fears

      New York Times  |  Apr 17, 08 11:07 AM CDT

      Web Health Records Raise Privacy Fears

      (Newser) - Medical researchers worry that Internet giants’ ventures into personal health records could turn the system on its head, threatening individual privacy, the New York Times reports. Two experts warn that companies like Microsoft and Google, whose new services put patient information on the web, aren’t subject to standard healthcare regulations, and could be easy targets for advertisers’ probes. More »

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      Microsoft  • health care  • patients  • health research  • Google Health  • health records

    • Manufacturing's Unemployed Find Work at the Hospital

      Wall Street Journal  |  Apr 15, 08 2:41 PM CDT

      Manufacturing's Unemployed Find Work at the Hospital

      (Newser) - American communities once reliant on the manufacturing industry are increasingly being supported by the growing healthcare sector, the Wall Street Journal reports. Over the past 10 years, the former paper-mill town of Bangor, Maine, lost 3,700 factory jobs—but gained 3,500 healthcare jobs, a hopeful sign for an economy teetering on the brink of recession. More »

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      credit crisis  • health care  • subprime crisis  • manufacturing  • Maine  • health care industry

    • Boomers Will Overrun Health System: Study

      Los Angeles Times  |  Apr 15, 08 2:14 PM CDT

      Boomers Will Overrun Health System: Study

      (Newser) - America’s healthcare system isn’t prepared to handle the wave of aging baby boomers about to hit, according to a sweeping government report released today. As that huge generation enters its 60s, the industry faces crisis-level workforce shortages, the Los Angeles Times r eports. “There will never be enough geriatricians,” said one professor of medicine. More »

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      health care  • nurses  • baby boomers  • geriatric medicine

    • Insurers Quietly Hike Rx Costs

      New York Times  |  Apr 14, 08 9:47 AM CDT

      Insurers Quietly Hike Rx Costs

      (Newser) - Pricey prescription drugs are getting pricier, and, the New York Times reports, insurance companies are asking patients to shoulder more of the burden. Insurers are quietly phasing out traditional drug plans, which charge a fixed co-pay of $20 or $30 to fill a prescription, in favor of so-called Tier 4 plans, which squeeze patients who need certain expensive drugs for as much as a third of their cost—which can run to thousands of dollars a month. More »

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      health care  • prescription drugs  • insurance  • drug companies  • insurance companies  • co-pays

    • Elizabeth Edwards Sides With Clinton on Health Care

      Taegan Goddard's Political Wire  |  Apr 9, 08 1:14 PM CDT

      Elizabeth Edwards Sides With Clinton on Health Care

      (Newser) - Elizabeth Edwards said this morning she has “more confidence in Senator Clinton’s policy than Senator Obama’s” on health care, fueling speculation that the famous political spouse could endorse Hillary in the Democratic presidential race. Edwards has also become a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, which Jay Carney, in Time , calls “a kind of Hillary Clinton Administration-in-waiting.” More »

    • Hillary Dumps Another Tall Tale

      CNN  |  Apr 7, 08 5:02 AM CDT

      Hillary Dumps Another Tall Tale

      (Newser) - Another story Hillary Clinton has told repeatedly on the campaign trail turns out to be untrue, CNN reports. This one is about a pregnant woman from Ohio who dies after being turned away from a hospital because she has no health insurance. A spokesman for the hospital has denied the account, saying the woman had insurance and received care. Clinton, who was apparently told the story while visiting Ohio, has since dropped the anecdote. More »

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      Hillary Clinton  • health care  • Ohio  • stump speech  • uninsured

  • March 2008