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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: Medicare, Insurance, Urinary Tract Infection, Hospitals and Clinics, Annapolis
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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: Feminism, Birth Control, Justice System, Health Organizations, White House
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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: Laws, Medicare, Regional Authority, Insurance, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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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: Family, Health Care Reform (2009), Internal Revenue Service, Labor Legislation, Government Health Care
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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: Entertainment Events, White House, National Institutes of Health, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Singapore
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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, Birth Control, Hormones and Metabolism, Health Organizations, Prescription Drugs
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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: Cancer, Barack Obama, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Hospitals and Clinics, Health Insurance Cost
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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...
Tags: Mitt Romney, David Axelrod, Aesop , Bill Clinton, NPR
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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: Vaccines, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Drugs and Medicines, Health and Safety at School, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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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: Feminism, Birth Control, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Elections, Pregnancy and Childbirth
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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: Republican Party, Planned Parenthood, White House, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Democratic Party
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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: Heart Attack, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Quitting Smoking, Elections, Stroke
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