Day: October 15, 2012
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Calorie counts on your Coke and Pepsi machines coming in 2013
Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and the Dr Pepper Snapple Group, for starters, will start displaying calorie counts on vending machines in an effort to encourage consumers to make lower-calorie choices, starting in...
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Kaiser study estimates how changing Medicare to a premium-support plan like Ryan’s would cost differently by state and region
A Kaiser Family Foundation study has looked into what Medicare beneficiaries might pay under a “premium support” system that relies on competitive bidding, like the one proposed by House Budget Committee...
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Health reform expected to hurt recruitment of rural doctors
Recruiting doctors to rural hospitals will get harder in the next few years as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act reaches full implementation and the demand for healthcare services...
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Studies show that preteen girls who get the HPV vaccination are not more inclined toward promiscuity than those who don’t
An electron micrograph of thehuman papilloma virus.(National Cancer Institute photo) The most recent study of preteen girls who received the vaccine for the human papilloma virus (HPV) found that...
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Home-health agency for Madison, Estill and Powell counties says it has to cut staff because of issues with Medicaid and Medicare
Declining reimbursements from Medicaid and Medicare are behind the Madison County Health Department‘s layoff of seven home-health employees last week. Director Nancy Crew said the cuts should not mean a...