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Aetna Reveals It Acquired iTriage Mobile Health App Developer Healthagen TechCrunch Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:01 PM PST At an investor conference yesterday, health insurance and tech giant Aetna revealed that it acquired Healthagen, the developer of iPhone app iTriage , though it did not disclose the price. Aetna's Chairmen, CEO, and President Mark Bertolini told investors "About a month and a half ago we bought at little company called iTriage...the fastest growing consumer application in healthcare today ... State: Company sells fraudulent health insurance policies Lake County News-Sun Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:00 PM PST An unauthorized insurer operating under the name ReAssurance has sold numerous fraudulent health insurance policies to consumers in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Wisconsin, state officials have warned.Anyone who has policy issued by ReAssurance Health Inc., ReAssurance Health Insurance, or ReAssurance Health Insurance Group should immediately seek legitimate health insurance coverage, according ... Surgical Checklist Helps Lower Patient Death Rates, Study Shows The Huffington Post Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:53 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A surgical checklist, similar to what pilots use before every flight, can lower patient death rates, a study at one hospital confirms -- though the drop was smaller than past research has found. Eastday-Two dead, 222 injured in new clashes in Cairo Eastday.com Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:52 PM PST A protestor throws stone towards the office building of the Roads and Bridges Authority in Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 16, 2011. At least two people were killed and 222 others injured in the latest clashes between protestors and security forces on Friday in Cairo, said the health ministry. ‘At Last’ singer Etta James terminally ill The Malaysian Insider Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:52 PM PST LOS ANGELES, Dec 17 â€" Grammy-winning R&B singer Etta James is terminally ill, her live-in physician said in an interview this week that confirmed reports of the singer’s fading health. Dr Elaine James, who is no relation to the singer, told a California newspaper in a video interview that the 73-year-old “At Last” singer has leukaemia, dementia ... New VA clinic in Evansville open, ready for patients Evansville Courier & Press Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:51 PM PST At 95,000 square feet, the new Department of Veterans Affairs health care center on Evansville's East Side dwarfs its previous location on Walnut Avenue. S.C. rabies case first in 50 years The State Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:48 PM PST A middle-aged Sumter County woman has the first diagnosed case of human rabies in the state in 50 years, state health officials said Friday. After eventful decade, Santa Cruz County's top health official Rama Khalsa to step down Santa Cruz Sentinel Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:27 PM PST SANTA CRUZ - Rama Khalsa's first week on the job wasn't exactly one from the management textbooks. There were 2,000 goats, being kept for valuable biotech research, causing trouble on a North Coast farm. Groundbreaking managed health care program announced St. Tammany News Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:22 PM PST Louisiana Secretary of Health and Hospitals Bruce Greenstein unveiled a plan yesterday that will allow 865,000 of the 1.2 million Medicaid and LaChip recipients in Louisiana to enroll in a new program called Bayou Health that will provide managed healthcare similar to that offered by private industry. City, county, health care professionals to comprise committee Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:19 PM PST The Lubbock Board of Health took another step toward a joint city-county health department by appointing a five-member committee Friday to study the feasibility of the venture.

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