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24 min ago | WTOP-FM Washington

Best employer for boomers is right here

The Bethesda-based National Institutes of Health landed the No. 1 spot on the list.

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Related Topix: National Institutes of Health, Biotech, Medicine, Health, AARP

4 hrs ago | Reno Gazette-Journal

Paper: CDC didn't check Legionnaires records

Federal health officials believe a fatal outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System started in 2011, but they did not check hospital records that show Legionella bacteria appeared nearly four years earlier, a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review investigation found.

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Related Topix: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Biotech, Medicine

8 hrs ago | Reuters

Orphan drugmaker ViroPharma attracts takeover interest -sources

ViroPharma Inc is attracting preliminary interest from several pharmaceutical companies about buying the orphan drugmaker, according to three people familiar with the matter.

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Related Topix: Biotech, ViroPharma, Medicine, Genetics, Genzyme General

13 hrs ago | Courier News

Johnson & Johnson to buy Aragon for at least $650M

The headquarters building of Johnson & Johnson stands in New Brunswick in this 2009 file photo.

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Related Topix: Johnson & Johnson, Biotech, Johnson and Johnson, Medicine, Johnson and Johnson Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals, Advanced Transit Dynamics, VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies, Startups, Johnson Controls

15 hrs ago | TheBostonChannel.com

Minority children lack access to specialists

African-American and Hispanic children are far less likely to be seen by specialists -- for autism, but also other medical conditions -- and also less likely to receive specialized medical tests than their white peers, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

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Related Topix: Massachusetts General Hospital, Hospital Administration, Opinion

15 hrs ago | Local10.com

Minority children lack access to specialists

African-American and Hispanic children are far less likely to be seen by specialists -- for autism, but also other medical conditions -- and also less likely to receive specialized medical tests than their white peers, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

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Related Topix: Massachusetts General Hospital, Hospital Administration, Life, Gastroenterology, Food, Nutrition

19 hrs ago | The Clarion-Ledger

Supreme Court ruling frees your genes, opens market

Cases that get to the Supreme Court often involve complex issues over which the justices can reasonably disagree: Obamacare, "partial birth abortion" and the disputed Bush-Gore election, just to name a few.

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Related Topix: Abortion, Genetics, Medicine, Biotech, Myriad Genetics, Biology, Science

Sun Jun 16, 2013

KFVS12

St. Louis-based BJC Healthcare cutting 160 jobs

June Fowler, a BJC spokeswoman, told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch this was the first time in the nonprofit organization's 20-year history that the St. Louis-based health system has resorted to layoffs.

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Related Topix: Medicine, BJC HealthCare, Hospital Administration, St Louis County, MO

WTOL-TV Toledo

Court ruling may open up breast cancer gene tests

A ruling by the Supreme Court that human genes can't be patented is expected to increase access and drop the cost for tests for gene mutations that greatly raise the risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, Genetics, Biotech, Myriad Genetics

WTVG-TV Toledo

Family of man killed in shooting plead for peace

Fredrick Watson, Jr. was shot early Sunday morning at Avondale and Brown. Police found the 20-yr-old slumped in a car.

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Related Topix: Toledo Hospital, Medicine, Hospital Administration

Times Herald-Record

Suspects from Newburgh arrested in Poughkeepsie shooting death

A 20-year-old City of Newburgh man was charged with murder following an early Sunday morning shooting death of a City of a Poughkeepsie resident outside a Mexican restaurant on Main Street.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, St Francis Hospital, Medicine, Hospital Administration

Weirton Daily Times

Online growth spreads

Jim Emmerling didn't necessarily start out embracing Internet advertising, but times have changed, and the owner of Em-Media said his arms, and eyes, are now wide open.

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Related Topix: Public Relations, Medicine, Trinity Health System, Hospital Administration, iPod touch App, iPad App, Google+, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Weirton, WV, Marketing

WHIOTV

Fire fighters: elderly man critical after suspicious fire

A 74-year-old male was transported to Miami Valley Hospital with serious, life-threatening injuries after being exposed to flames and smoke during a "suspicious" fire.

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Related Topix: Fire, Miami Valley Hospital, Hospital Administration, Medicine

Castanet.net

Kim Kardashian welcomes baby girl

Kim Kardashian has given birth to a baby girl. The 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians' star, who was due to give birth to her first child on July 11, has reportedly welcomed her daughter at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills with her rapper boyfriend Kanye West by her side.

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Related Topix: Kim Kardashian, Hot Chicks, Cedars Medical Center, Medicine, Hospital Administration, Beverly Hills, CA, Entertainment

Sat Jun 15, 2013

News9 Oklahoma City

Two Teens Killed In Early Morning Crash Near Tahlequah

Two teens were killed after being thrown from the bed of a pickup truck in an early morning wreck in Cherokee County on Saturday.

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Related Topix: Tahlequah, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Oklahoma, St Francis Hospital, Medicine, Hospital Administration, Tulsa, OK

411mania.com

Kim Kardashian Gives Birth To A Baby Girl

TMZ reports that Kim Kardashian has given birth to a baby girl. Both the baby and Kardashian are in good health.

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Related Topix: Cedars Medical Center, Medicine, CedarsSinai Medical Center, Hospital Administration, Music, Entertainment

WTEN-TV Albany

One man dead while moving furniture

ALBANY, N.Y. One man is dead and another is being treated at a hospital after they fell while carrying a piece of furniture.

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Related Topix: Albany, NY, Medicine, Albany Medical Center Hospital, Hospital Administration, Schenectady, NY, Cohoes, NY, Middleburgh, NY

Burlington Times News

Man drowns in pool

According to a press release, at 8:10 p.m., police, fire and Alamance County EMS personnel responded to 706 Huffman Mill Road to a report of a drowning.

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Related Topix: Alamance Regional Medical Center, Hospital Administration, Medicine

WTSP-TV Saint Petersburg

Japanese "eyeball licking" trend carries blindness risk

In Born's song "Spiral Eye," a woman licks the eye of a man bound to a chair. YOUTUBE/MASAMUNESTRIKESAGAIN A strange trend among Japanese school-aged children and teens -- licking a friend or lover's eyeballs -- may be perplexing, but experts are more worried about the germs they are potentially spreading.

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Related Topix: CBS, Media, Television, Showtime Networks, Conjunctivitis, Health, Lenox Hill Hospital, Hospital Administration, Ophthalmology

Fri Jun 14, 2013

Sunherald.com

Organ donor gave Ocean Springs man 26 years and counting

Friday marked 26 years Walter Ryan has been living with a donated heart in his chest.

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Related Topix: Ocean Springs, MS, Forrest General Hospital, Medicine, Hospital Administration, Kidney Cancer, Health

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