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| Arizona declines to set up state-based health insurance exchange reuters.com Wed, 28 Nov, 2012 02:05 PM PST PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, an ardent critic of President Barack Obama's push to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system, said on Wednesday she was rejecting a new federal mandate to establish a state-based health insurance exchange under the U.S. Affordable Care Act. Citing lingering unanswered questions about the exchanges and concerns about high costs she said would be passed ... Experts call for mental illness screening for children reuters.com Wed, 28 Nov, 2012 02:00 PM PST LONDON (Reuters) - Leading mental health experts are calling for school children to be screened for risk of mental illnesses such as depression and have devised a test that reliably identifies those at high risk. The test can be done on a computer and could be used to alert doctors and psychologists to intervene early, said Barbara Sahakian a professor of clinical neuropsychology at Britain's ... Thermography machines aren't approved for breast cancer screening: Health Canada cp.org Wed, 28 Nov, 2012 12:39 PM PST OTTAWA - Health Canada is warning Canadians and their health-care providers that thermography machines are not approved for use in Canada for breast cancer screening. Some women overwhelmed by cancer treatment options reuters.com Wed, 28 Nov, 2012 12:35 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More than one in five women with early-stage breast cancer in a new study said they were given too much responsibility for treatment-related decisions - and those patients were more likely to end up regretting the choices they made. The findings don't mean women should not be fully informed about their treatment options, researchers said, but rather that doctors may ... Cutting consultations led to more Medicare spending reuters.com Wed, 28 Nov, 2012 12:23 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Medicare unintentionally spent more money on doctor's-office visits in 2010, the year it introduced a simplified fee schedule, according to a new study. Researchers found that the U.S. government-run insurance for the elderly paid an average of $40 more per beneficiary after it stopped paying for consultations with specialists and increased its payments for regular ... Mississippi's last abortion clinic faces closure reuters.com Wed, 28 Nov, 2012 12:02 PM PST JACKSON, Mississippi (Reuters) - Mississippi's sole abortion clinic will have to close unless a federal judge halts a new state law requiring its physicians to obtain admitting privileges to local hospitals, according to a court motion filed on Wednesday. The Jackson Women's Health Organization renewed its request for a federal judge to prevent state officials from enforcing the law, which the ... New Brunswick health minister hints of possible move of hospital due to floods cp.org Wed, 28 Nov, 2012 11:59 AM PST FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's health minister is hinting that the provincial government could move Perth-Andover's only hospital because of repeated flooding. Smoking causes 270,000 cancers yearly in Europe: study reuters.com Wed, 28 Nov, 2012 11:27 AM PST NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Across eight European and Scandinavian countries, 270,000 people are diagnosed every year with cancers caused by smoking, according to a new study. "These results tell us that (the) contribution of tobacco smoking to cancer is substantial, and that, in spite of substantial efforts put forward to reduce smoking in European countries, the overwhelming importance of ... | |
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