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56 min ago | ABS-CBN News

SAP plans to recruit people with autism as programmers

German software company SAP is looking to recruit people with autism as programmers and product testers, drawing on skills that can include a close attention to detail and an ability to solve complex problems.

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Related Topix: Autism

56 min ago | JAM! Showbiz

Jolie's aunt has breast cancer

Actress Angelina Jolie poses for a photograph as she arrives for the G8 Foreign Ministers Meeting in central London April 11, 2013.

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Related Topix: Salt, Medicine, Breast Cancer, Ovarian Cancer

4 hrs ago | Livonia Observer

Incentives push doctors to electronic medical records

More than half of doctors' offices and 80% of hospitals that provide Medicare or Medicaid will have electronic health records by the end of the year, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Healthcare Law, Law, Medicare, Medicaid, 9

4 hrs ago | WCHS-TV Charleston

Doctor shortage to worsen under Medicaid expansion

The planned expansion of Kentucky's Medicaid program coupled with a push to help the uninsured obtain health coverage will worsen the state's shortage of physicians.

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Related Topix: Medicaid, US Governors, Steve Beshear

8 hrs ago | WKXW-FM Trenton

FDA Panel Backs Experimental Merck Insomnia Drug

A federal panel of medical experts says that an experimental insomnia drug from Merck & Co Inc.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Merck , Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Food and Drug Administration, Insomnia

8 hrs ago | WKRN

Minn. teen whose farewell song became web hit dies

3, 2012. "She's strong enough to share the load with me, said Sobiech. . Zach Sobiech, left, plays guitar as his friend Samantha "Sammy" Brown,foreground, sings a song they wrote earlier that night called 'Star Hopping' in Lakeland, Minn., on Dec.

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Related Topix: Bone Cancer

10 hrs ago | Science, Industry and Business

Biomarkers Discovered for Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Using the Department of Defense Serum Repository , University of Cincinnati researchers have identified a number of biomarkers for inflammatory bowel disease , which could help with earlier diagnosis and intervention in those who have not yet shown symptoms.

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Related Topix: University of Cincinnati, Crohn's Disease, Health, Ulcerative Colitis, Medicine, Colitis

13 hrs ago | CBS 47

Polio cases found in Kenya and Somalia, officials say

The World Health Organization says the Horn of Africa is experiencing an outbreak of polio with cases confirmed in Kenya and Somalia.

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Related Topix: Vaccinations

17 hrs ago | KMIZ

Data: Huge disparity in Medicare payment rates

Get a hip replaced at Olympia Medical Center in Los Angeles, and Medicare will pay the small, doctor-owned hospital $15,585, or about 13% of what Olympia charged in the bills it submitted.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Medicare, Medicaid

19 hrs ago | KFVS12

Racial disparities seen in U.S. lung cancer treatment

Racial disparities exist in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer among hospitals in the United States, according to a large new study.

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Related Topix: Cancer, Medicine, Lung Cancer

23 hrs ago | Reuters

Amag says anemia drug caused fatal reaction in Switzerland

Amag Pharmaceuticals Inc said its marketing partner in Switzerland, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd, is recalling a batch of Amag's anemia drug, Rienso, because of a death and several cases of hypersensitivity.

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Related Topix: Anemia, Medicine, Marketing, Lexington, MA

Tue May 21, 2013

GPB.org

Texas Medicaid Debate Complicated By Politics And Poverty

When the sun rises over the Rio Grande Valley, the cries of the urracas black birds perched on the tops of palm trees swell to a noisy, unavoidable cacophony.

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Related Topix: Texas, Medicaid, Texas Government, Rick Perry, US Governors, US News, Health Insurance

Tri-cityherald.com

Burt Bacharach opens up on daughter's suicide

He knew that being honest would force him to come to terms with the death of his daughter.

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Related Topix: Burt Bacharach, Pop/Rock, Suicide, Autism

KMIZ

Where have Europe's nurses gone?

At the top of a flight of stairs with no elevator in sight, registered nurse Katarzyna Kaseja leans over the rickety metal bars of a crib.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Nursing, World News, Poland, Long Term Care

Salisbury Journal

Last-ditch appeal over measles jabs

The programme to inoculate thousands of children at risk from the measles epidemic in the greater Swansea area ends this week Health chiefs are appealing to children still unprotected against measles to sign up to an in-school vaccination drive before it ends.

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Related Topix: Neath and Port Talbot County, Wales, Swansea County, Wales, Carmarthenshire County, Wales, World News, Powys County, Wales, United Kingdom, Natural Disasters, Epidemic, Vaccinations, Health, Mumps

Lincoln Daily News

After a decade, global AIDS program looks ahead

The decade-old law that transformed the battle against HIV and AIDS in developing countries is at a crossroads.

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Related Topix: HIV/AIDS, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, George Bush, W., US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, US House of Representatives, Democrat

EDGE

Side Effects

Steven Soderberg's alleged last big screen directorial effort, "Side Effects" is a throwback thriller with a clever script and some neato twists.

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Related Topix: Side Effects, Short, Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Musical Movies, Channing Tatum, Rooney Mara, Depression, Jude Law, Celebrities, Catherine Zeta-Jones

Connecticut Post

Slow pokes: Acupuncture helps hypothermic turtles

Acupuncturist Claire McManus watches a pair of sea turtles, who are recovering from a stranding, swim at the New England Aquarium's animal car center in Quincy, Mass., Monday May 20, 2013.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Acupuncture, Quincy, MA, Weather

Mon May 20, 2013

Denver Post

'Too many names': Boulder memorial, walk honor those who died from AIDS

Susan Finnegan, Vyckee Keys and her daughter Alexandra Keyes, age 13, pause during the moment of silent remembrance at the Boulder County AIDS Project's participation in the International AIDS Candlelight Vigil on Sunday evening May 19th, 2013 in Boulder Colorado.

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Related Topix: HIV/AIDS, Boulder, CO, Boulder County, CO

WHIO

Actavis buying Warner Chilcott in $8.5B deal

Actavis is buying Warner Chilcott in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.5 billion that would create the third-biggest specialty pharmaceutical company in the U.S. market.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Warner Chilcott, Healthcare Industry, Parsippany, NJ, Lipitor, Atorvastatin (generic), Cholesterol, Colitis