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Healthcare Industry

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Reuters

Plans by US biotech company Dendreon Corp. to market a pioneering therapeutic cancer vaccine, Provenge, were dealt a blow on Wednesday when US regulators demanded more data before approving it.

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USA Today

The Senate grappled Wednesday with the hot-button question of whether to allow the importation of cheaper drugs from other countries and debated the influence of the drug lobby, as it moved closer to passing the most significant changes to drug-safet

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AP

The trust funds for Social Security and Medicare will last a year longer than previously estimated, trustees said. That means 2041 for the Social Security trust fund to be exhausted and 2019 for Medicare.

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NY Times

A majority of Americans say the federal government should guarantee health insurance to every American, especially children, and are willing to pay higher taxes to do it, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

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By Olga Pierce for news.monstersandcritics.com

Employers have absorbed years of double-digit premium growth, passing on only a small share of the increased cost to employees in the form of higher premiums and co-payments. But employers` willingness to continue to do that is waning.

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Liberty Coalition

The Patient Qaulity Care Project (PQCP) works to improve the quality of medical care in the US by bringing together coalitions of doctors, lawyers, patients, other medically related workers and citizens.

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There appears to be no new ideas coming forth from either major political party. Democratic presidential candidate and former senator from North Carolina, John Edwards, stated on Sunday’s NBC’s Meet the Press that he would raise taxes, primarily on

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By LIZ AUSTIN PETERSON - AP

Merck & Co. is helping bankroll efforts to pass state laws requiring girls as young as 11 or 12 to receive the drugmaker's new vaccine against the sexually transmitted cervical-cancer virus.

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Reuters

Psychiatrist Marc Sadowsky recalled being shocked when a drug-company salesman challenged him 2 years ago to explain why he prescribed more of one type of antidepressant than another. "He knew more about my prescribing practices than I did,**

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Reuters

General practitioners added their voices to a growing call for health care reform in the United States with a proposal to completely change the way patients and their doctors interact. [Of course gov't. could just butt out of health care.]

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