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Doctor Rate Gaps May Be Short-Lived
August 28th, 2012 
Anna Wilde Mathews Hospital systems’ acquisitions of doctor practices sometimes result in higher prices paid by insurers, but while they may be clashing now over rate bumps for physicians, both sides say the future is likely to look very different.
A.M. Vitals: Prices Soar as Doctors Band with Hospitals
August 27th, 2012 Christopher Weaver Also in today’s health news: Patients are grappling with the cost of a device recall, an influential U.S. pediatricians group backed circumcision, and Mitt Romney reversed course to support his own Massachusetts health law.
A.M. Vitals: Killer Hospital Germs and Autism
August 23rd, 2012 Robert Lee Hotz Also: The U.S. is heading toward one of the worst West Nile seasons since 1999; and Medicare spending growth is slowing.
Posted in Antibiotics, Autism, CDC, Congress, Consumer health, Diabetes, Drugs, Genetics, Health costs, Hospitals, Infectious disease, Medicare, Obesity, Public health, Research 
Comments OffA.M. Vitals: Faulty Defibrillators and Doctor Burnout
August 22nd, 2012 Robert Lee Hotz Also: Nearly 1 in 2 U.S. physicians report at least one symptom of burnout; and a decline in the number of circumcisions performed each year could actually raise health costs.
Posted in Biotech, Consumer health, Doctors, Drugs, FDA, Health costs, heart disease, Medical devices, Surgery Comments OffA.M. Vitals: Heart Cure Trouble and Food Safety
August 21st, 2012 Robert Lee Hotz Also: Health law gives Medicare fraud fighters new weapons; and vitamin D supplements may cut incidence of the common cold.
Posted in CDC, Consumer health, Drugs, Food safety, Health costs, Health Reform, heart disease, Medicaid, Medicare, Obama Administration, Public health, Research, Sleep, Surgery Comments OffA.M. Vitals: India Patent Fight and Parkinson’s Genes
August 20th, 2012 Robert Lee Hotz Also: 23andMe is hunting for genes linked to Parkinson’s disease in data from personalized DNA tests; and Maryland hospitals and regulators are discussing raising hospital prices for private insurers and businesses to make up for suggested Medicare and…
A.M. Vitals: Medicare Is a Growing Focus in Campaigns
August 15th, 2012 Anna Wilde Mathews How HCA remained profitable; An analysis looks at both parties’ plans for the program; Research indicates that heroin may act on the immune system; The FDA warned Hershey about health claims on its chocolate syrup.
Posted in Drugs, FDA, Health costs, Health Reform, Medicare, Obama Administration, Presidential campaign, Research Comments OffA.M. Vitals: Gene Mutation Yields Insight into Common Brain Cancer
July 27th, 2012 Shirley S. Wang Here’s what’s making health news this morning:
Some Brain Tumors Are Linked to a Gene Defect (WSJ): Researchers found a genetic mutation connected to a common and aggressive form of brain center.
In Quest to Explain Shootings, Probing Mental Illness…
A.M. Vitals: A Bet on Medicaid Managed Care
July 9th, 2012 Stefanie Ilgenfritz Here’s what’s making health news this morning:
WellPoint to Buy Amerigroup (WSJ): Health-benefits provider WellPoint Inc. agreed to acquire the managed-care company Amerigroup Corp. in a roughly $4.46 billion cash deal in an effort to expand its pres…
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