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Promedica teaming up with Fremont hospital NBC 24 Toledo Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:59 AM PDT As Promedica fights to keep its merger with St. Luke's Hospital in Maumee, the health care system has entered into a new deal with Fremont's Memorial Hospital. Texas doctor, wife accused of health care fraud Times Leader Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:58 AM PDT (AP) A Texas urologist and his attorney wife who are accused of violating a U.S. trade embargo with Iran also face federal charges that they defrauded government and private health care programs of … Providence reaches agreement with Care New England, CharterCare Providence Business News Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:57 AM PDT CARE NEW ENGLAND and CharterCARE Health Partners have agreed to pay $1 million and $300,000, respectively, to the city of Providence in a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement, Mayor Angel Taveras announced Friday. TN health insurance rebates expected The Leaf Chronicle Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:56 AM PDT More than 200,000 Tennessee residents are set to receive rebates from their health insurance company this year, officials said. Grieving parents win medical review The New Zealand Herald Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:56 AM PDT A Tauranga couple who say medical practitioners demonstrated a "lack of action" before their son took his own life have had their complaint re-opened by the Health and Disability Commissioner.Colin and Marianne Milne have been demanding... Health Insurance Rebates Expected for Tennesseans Eyewitness News Memphis Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:55 AM PDT Officials say that more than 200,000 Tennessee residents are set to receive rebates from their health insurance company this year. B.C. to open nearly 200 more jobs for nurse practitioners Vancouver Sun Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:52 AM PDT Health minister Mike de Jong said the BC government will allocate $22.2 million over three years to open up nearly 200 more jobs for nurse practitioners who want to use the full breadth of their skills and improve care of patients. “Today’s announcement will create the opportunities for nurse practitioners to do the job they were trained for, which will provide better access to health care for B ... Note: Health-e Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:51 AM PDT Runners for Health, a group of runners from the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), will be participating in this year’s Comrades Marathon. The annual 89 km race, running between Pietermaritzburg and Durban, will take place on Sunday. Read here why they describe it as their biggest challenge yet. Can Technology Deliver Better Health Care? NPR Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:49 AM PDT Smartphones can monitor many of your vital signs at home--and do it more cheaply than your doctor. But will technology deliver better medical care? Dr. Eric Topol, author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine , Dr. Reed Tuckson, head of UnitedHealth Group, and Dr. Arnold Relman, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine , discuss the future of digital health. This Week in Science GenomeWeb News Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:48 AM PDT Radoje Drmanac, founder and CSO at Complete Genomics, calls whole-genome sequencing "the ultimate genetic test" in this week's Science . "Instead of handling different types of partial data sets or making decisions without genetic data, once comprehensive and ultimate genetic information provided by WGS [whole-genome sequencing] is broadly accepted, many health-related industries can standardize ...

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