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TEMPLE, Texas – Quality medical care without Dallas' high costs exists. It's a two-hour drive away, at Scott & White Healthcare, a physician-run company in Central Texas. The company controls costs by managing all aspects of medical care, including health insurance, outpatient clinics and hospice centers.

The oral contraceptives Yaz and Yasmin are the top-selling pharmaceutical line for Bayer HealthCare, largely as a result of marketing that presents them as much more than mere pregnancy prevention. Yaz, in particular, the top-selling birth control pill in the United States, owes much of its popularity to multimillion-dollar ad campaigns that have promoted the drug as a quality-of-life treatment to ...

The moon holds a mystical place in the history of human culture, so it's no wonder that many myths — from werewolves to induced lunacy to epileptic seizures — have built up regarding its supposed effects on us. "It must be a full moon," is a phrase heard whenever crazy things happen and is said by researchers to be muttered commonly by ...

SAN FRANCISCO — As schools grapple with a resurgence of swine flu, many districts have few or no nurses to prevent or respond to outbreaks, leaving students more vulnerable to a virus that spreads easily in classrooms and takes a heavier toll on children and young adults. The shortage of school nurses could lead to more students falling ill from the ...

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Despite the public outcry over President Obama's government-run healthcare plan, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is insistent on pushing through a government health insurance program that works like Medicare.

Definately read this article! Its pretty interesting. Its about the normal flu vaccine posisbly putting people at a greater risk of H1N1. Check it out. & take care<3

<p>SAN ANTONIO—The attorney for a Texas mother accused of killing and mutilating her 3-week-old son says a jail psychiatrist has deemed her competent to stand trial.</p><br><br><p>This is the woman who cannibalized parts of her child she had murdered.</p>

RIVERSIDE, Calif.—Recent filings in a federal lawsuit claim that a California meatpacking plant that supplied the nation's school lunch program slaughtered cows that were too sick to stand for nearly four years, and hid it from U.S. officials.

The Audubon Ambulatory Surgical Center in Colorado Springs is fighting a subpoena from the U.S. Attorney’s Office seeking the identity of a patient who may have contracted hepatitis C from a fired operating room technician.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation worries that corrupt U.S. officials at the nation's border crossings are exposing Americans to serious risk, and are stepping up efforts to root those officials out. With evidence of corrupt U.S. border officials allowing illegal immigrants to enter the country in exchange for bribes, the FBI is concerned terrorists or materials that could be used in ...

FUQUAY-VARINA -- As the ambulance raced to her door, Briana Johnson knew she'd be having her baby on her bedroom floor, assisted by the only helper in the house: her 6-year-old daughter. At 3 a.m. Sept. 16, Johnson delivered her own infant while Diyana scampered around fetching towels, trying to be brave as she learned first-hand where babies come from. "I ...

James Kirkland has a new heart. The infant who was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy just a few months after he was born was prepped for surgery on Sept. 11 and received the new organ the following morning. Kirkland had been on the transplant waiting list since June and was biding his time between the cardiac ICU and regular ICU at the ...

By 2030, California will need to train almost 1 million more technicians, dental hygienists and other support workers considered vital to the health care industry, according to a report released Tuesday. But the state's higher education system has capacity to train only 63 percent of the needed work force. These allied health workers don't include doctors and nurses. The category covers ...

In lieu of a vaccine, Shamokin Area Community Hospital (SACH) is using information as an inoculation against H1N1 Influenza A, also known as swine flu. The hospital has educated staff and faculty, and is hoping to inform the public about H1N1 in hopes of preventing a major outbreak in the region during peak flu season. In Danville, Geisinger Medical Center (GMC) ...

Three years after she made medical history and was freed from painful insulin injections, 9-year-old Lilly Jaffe is just beginning to understand how much her story changed the course of diabetes research and treatment. Since her breakthrough, 70 other children and several adults in the U.S. also have been able to switch from insulin shots to oral medication. And last month, ...

TRENTON, N.J. - Drugmaker Wyeth on Wednesday sued the Food and Drug Administration to block the sale of a generic rival to its intravenous antibiotic Zosyn, claiming the generic is not an equivalent product and could harm critically ill patients. Madison, N.J.-based Wyeth filed a federal lawsuit against the FDA, seeking both a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction. The ...

Just 21 months into my mother's cancer treatment, she had reached her medical insurance policy's cap for chemotherapy -- $100,000. As if dealing with cancer were not enough, she now had to deal with the reality that our health care system had left her financially exposed. Lost in our daily debates on health care reform is the devastating impact our current ...

We've all heard stories of people who enter a hospital for an operation or other treatment, only to wind up worse off after a surgeon accidentally left a sponge inside their bodies or the patient was infected by an unsanitary surgical tool. Under the law, non-profit hospitals are immune from lawsuits for such mistakes (only the specific doctors who performed the ...

          I did not vote for Obama, but that is not to say that I don't cheer for his success in leading our nation on the right path.  The actions taken in this article would be what I consider a move in the right direction.  So Bravo President Obama on this move.   - Tim, R.N.