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24 min ago | Nurse.com

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Related Topix: Nursing, Personal Finance, 401K

4 hrs ago | Hampshire Chronicle

Tories look at limiting GP visits

Limiting the number of times patients can visit their family doctor is one of a number of suggestions the Tories have copnsidered Conservatives have considered limiting the number of times patients can visit their family doctor in a year, it has emerged.

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Related Topix: Conservatives (UK), Family Practice

8 hrs ago | Rome News

Refusing sex survey costing Georgia federal funds

Georgia stands to lose $1.8 million in health-related funding because state officials refuse to participate in a federal survey that asks students from seventh grade through high school questions about their sexual histories.

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Related Topix: Nathan Deal, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Georgia, Human Sexuality, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Biotech, Healthcare Industry, US Governors

13 hrs ago | The Campbell Reporter

Diabetes in California schools: State's high court to hear legal battle over insulin shots

From elementary school to high school, she has been able to count on a teacher, administrator or someone else to help her son Jonathan Mahmoud with his insulin shots when no school nurse was available -- the norm in California's budget-battered education system, where there's only one nurse for every 2,200 students.

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Related Topix: Insulin (generic), Humulin, Novolin, Diabetes, Health, Nursing, Albany, CA, Education Etc.

17 hrs ago | Reuters

UPDATE 1-Bausch & Lomb's Ista pleads guilty over kickbacks

Ista Pharmaceuticals Inc pleaded guilty on Friday to charges it used kickbacks and improper marketing to boost sales of a drug meant to treat eye pain and agreed to pay $33.5 million to settle criminal and civil liability, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

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Related Topix: Bausch and Lomb, Medical Equipment, Healthcare Industry, US News

21 hrs ago | SFGate

San Diego mayor has plan to end bird guano stink

Visitors will no longer have to hold their noses while taking in the scenic vistas of La Jolla's beaches if the plan announced by San Diego officials is successful.

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Related Topix: San Diego, CA, La-Jolla, CA, La Jolla Pharmaceutical, Biotech, Healthcare Industry

Fri May 24, 2013

KXTV

Bill would treat e-cigarettes like other tobacco

Democratic Sen. Ellen Corbett of Hayward says some of the vapors emitted by the e-cigarettes may pose health risks.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Health, California

KSTP

NYC Lawsuit Alleging Favre Sent Racy Texts Settled

A New York City lawyer for two massage therapists who sued retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre over claims he sent racy text messages says the case has been settled.

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Related Topix: Massage Therapy, Health

The Winnipeg Free Press

ISTA Pharmaceuticals pleads guilty in NY to promoting drug for unapproved use, will pay $33.5M

Drug-maker ISTA Pharmaceuticals has pleaded guilty in New York in a federal case involving its eye drug Xibrom and has agreed to pay more than $30 million.

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Related Topix: Biotech, ISTA Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare Industry, Bausch and Lomb, Medical Equipment, Food and Drug Administration

KSTP

FDA Warns of Infections Tied to Tennessee Pharmacy

Government health officials are investigating several complications reported with potentially contaminated medications made by a Tennessee specialty pharmacy.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Newbern, TN, Medrol, Methylprednisolone (generic), Health, Pain

KION 46

5 germ hot spots you aren't cleaning

Home is where the heart is -- not to mention the dirt, dust, bacteria and mold. "Most people clean what they can see, but there's a lot more to cleaning a home than just wiping down your bureau," says Richard Symes of Clenz Philly , an eco-friendly home and commercial cleaning service in New Jersey and Philadelphia.

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Related Topix: Allergy, Health, E. Coli

Burnham and Highbridge Weekly News

Owen to star in Soderbergh show

The Traffic director has just announced he is retiring from filmmaking with his final film, Behind The Candelabra starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, premiering at the Cannes Film Festival and about to air on HBO in the US this week.

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Related Topix: Movies, Entertainment, Nursing

The Day

Johnson & Johnson plans 10-plus new drug applications by 2017

Johnson & Johnson is developing what could eventually be game-changing treatments for depression and pain, and it's aiming to apply for approval of more than 10 new medicines by 2017, executives said Thursday during a review of the health care giant's medicine business.

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

Thu May 23, 2013

KFVS12

Diet soda habit as bad for teeth as meth addiction

"You look at it side-to-side with 'meth mouth' or 'coke mouth,' it is startling to see the intensity and extent of damage more or less the same," said Dr.

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Related Topix: Wisdom Teeth, Health, Drugs, Dentistry, Temple University, Dentures

Seattle Times

Alabama mystery illness solved: it's common flu

Health officials investigating a cluster of mysterious illnesses in Alabama closed their investigation Thursday after determining the illnesses were unrelated and no new bacteria or viruses were involved.

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Related Topix: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Influenza, Health, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Bird Flu, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

News Summary: J&J predicts surge of new medicines

BIG PLANS: Johnson & Johnson says it's poised by 2017 to seek regulatory approval for a dozen new medicines and two dozen variations of existing ones.

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Related Topix: Food, J and J Snack Foods, Johnson & Johnson, Biotech, Johnson and Johnson, Johnson and Johnson Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare Industry

KTVN Reno

Cockroaches quickly lose sweet tooth to survive

NEW YORK - For decades, people have been getting rid of cockroaches by setting out bait mixed with poison.

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Related Topix: Entomology, Science, Genetics

The Arizona Republic

McDonald's can't shake criticism about nutrition

McDonald's once again faced criticism that it's a purveyor of junk food that markets to children at its annual shareholder meeting Thursday.

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Related Topix: Restaurant Management, Mcdonalds, Life, Food, Nutrition, Hamburger, Family, Kids, Marketing

The Review

WHO: 22 deaths worldwide from coronavirus

World Health Organization officials said Thursday that their probe into the deadly new coronavirus that has now claimed 22 lives is being delayed because of a dispute over the ownership rights to a sample.

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Related Topix: Bird Flu, Health, Influenza, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

KTVN Reno

Nearly All U.S. States See Hefty Drop in Teen Births

A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is showing a big drop in teen birth rates that some experts say is startling.

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Related Topix: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Biotech, Healthcare Industry