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Hospital rates vary significantly, Medicare data show
Johns Hopkins Hospital charged $13,667 on average to treat one admission of a Medicare patient with diabetes in 2011, while a couple of miles away Mercy Medical Center billed an average of $8,425. The University of Maryland Medical Center charged $9,045...
Tags: Health Insurance, Phil McGraw, University of Maryland Medical Center, Medicare, FTI Consulting Inc.
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Common sense on Plan B
Last week, a federal district judge in New York ruled that girls younger than 17 should be allowed to purchase the Plan B contraceptive pill over the counter. Unlike the Obama administration, Judge Edward Korman got this one right. The 2011 decision by...
Tags: Women's Health, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Feminism, Plan B (drug), Health Treatments
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Health reform's changes stir worries as they take shape in Md.
State lawmakers put finishing touches last week on plans to apply federal health care reforms in Maryland come Jan. 1. But who becomes newly insured — and at what cost —still worries stakeholders as the state speeds toward becoming one of...
Tags: Health Insurance, Anthony G. Brown, Health Care Reform (2009), Medicare, Regional Authority
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The Obamacare lies keep on coming
What a wonderful, if hypocritical and misleading, opinion by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who continues to be as truthful and upfront with the American people as her boss is about Benghazi ("Health care reform is cutting costs,...
Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Family, Government Health Care, Health Care Reform (2009), Barack Obama
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U.S. cuts could lead to 'brain drain' in medicine
Scientists at the nation's leading research institutions are warning that continued uncertainty over federal funding could lead to a brain drain that will undermine the country's global status in medicine. With funding at the National Institutes of...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Barbara A. Mikulski, Research, Health Treatments, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations
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The what-if prescription
Leave it to some thoughtful physicians to put good medicine ahead of good politics. Last year, the Obama administration wrongly chose to limit access of teens to the emergency contraceptive pill known as Plan B. This week, pediatricians are urging their...
Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Plan B (drug), Prescription Drugs, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Treatments
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Towson family featured in health care campaign find 'relief' in Supreme Court ruling
The Supreme Court's ruling on President Barack Obama's health care initiative was a cause for great anticipation for Alicia Steinberg. In the parking lot of Brown Memorial Woodbrook Church on Thursday, the West Towson resident was waiting until the...
Tags: Family, Cancer, Chemotherapy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Leukemia
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Jonah Goldberg: Searching for a surrogate
Watching Bill Clinton act as Barack Obama's "No. 1 surrogate," in the words of National Public Radio, is as exquisitely painful as watching a runaway monkey with a paintball gun at a museum. Most of the pundits have focused on Mr. Clinton's motivations...
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1 in 80 Maryland children diagnosed with autism, CDC says
One in 88 American children has an autism spectrum disorder, according to a new estimate from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The rate is 23 percent higher than one the agency released three years ago. Federal officials said some...Tags: Genes and Chromosomes, Drugs and Medicines, Family, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Behavioral Conditions
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Women need to speak up about birth control
Where are the women?
In the extreme and ill-tempered debate over the availability of contraceptives for women, we have heard from the president, the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church, the Republican presidential candidates, members if Congress and...Tags: Family, Colleges and Universities, Feminism, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Roman Catholicism
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Obama's birth-control compromise wins some support
Washington Bureau– For days President Obama had been hammered by critics — including Cardinal-designate Edwin F. O'Brien of the Archdiocese of Baltimore — over a regulation in the healthcare law that required religiously affiliated hospitals, charities...Tags: Health Insurance, Women's Health, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Roman Catholicism, Labor Legislation
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CDC to launch anti-smoking campaign
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched an ad campaign to show the damage done from smoking to smokers and their families. The ads began March 19 on television, radio, online and billboards, as well as in theaters, magazines and...Tags: Quitting Smoking, Throat Cancer, Online Advertising, Heart Attack, Stroke
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