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How Young Adults Deal With Influenza

January 25, 2012
Only about one in five young adults in their late 30s received a flu shot during the 2009-2010 swine flu epidemic, according to a University of Michigan report that details the behavior and attitudes of Generation X. But about 65 percent were at least moderately concerned about the flu, and ...

Boston Children’s, Blue Cross reach deal to curb payments; Jackson hospital, University of Miami working on better ties

January 25, 2012
Children's Hospital Boston has agreed to a three-year contract with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts that will not pay Children's any more money this year, offering fresh evidence that the clamor to contain health costs is having an effect. In the second and third years of the pact, the ...

Generation X: How young adults deal with influenza

January 24, 2012
Only about one in five young adults in their late 30s received a flu shot during the 2009-2010 swine flu epidemic, according to a University of Michigan report that details the behavior and attitudes of Generation X.

New book explores how patients and doctors deal with cancer

January 24, 2012
Jonathan Waxman, a professor of oncology, was inspired to write a book by his conversations with his patients. Here, he gained insight into his patients' fears, hopes, and the impact the disease has on their lives. In The Elephant in the Room, Waxman explores the relationship of patient and specialist, ...

Generation X: How young adults deal with influenza

January 24, 2012
(University of Michigan) Only about one in five young adults in their late 30s received a flu shot during the 2009-2010 swine flu epidemic, according to a University of Michigan report that details the behavior and attitudes of Generation X.

Generation X: How young adults deal with influenza

January 23, 2012
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Only about one in five young adults in their late 30s received a flu shot during the 2009-2010 swine flu epidemic, according to a University of Michigan report that details the behavior and attitudes of Generation X. But about 65 percent were at ...

Cardiff drug development at heart of billion-plus deal

January 18, 2012
(Cardiff University) American pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb has agreed the purchase of US biotech company Inhibitex, in a $2.5Bn deal which includes the promising new anti-hepatitis C drug INX-189, first designed and prepared in Cardiff University.The buy-out means Bristol-Myers will continue the development of INX-189, created by Professor Chris McGuigan ...

Boehner rejects deal; Fate of ‘doc fix’ in doubt

December 19, 2011
A day after the Senate overwhelmingly approved legislation to extend a payroll tax cut for two months, House Republicans made clear Sunday that they would not support the measure. Speaker John A. Boehner, who was among the Republican and Democratic leaders who on Friday had worked out a deal on ...

A Texas-sized Medicaid deal

December 17, 2011
KUHF's Carrie Feibel, reporting as part of a partnership with Kaiser Health News, NPR and KUHF, writes: "The deal that federal regulators struck with Texas this week to expand managed care coverage for the poor allows both Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican presidential contender, and a Democratic White House to ...

Agreement on climate deal unlikely at Durban U.N. conference, Ban says

December 8, 2011
"Only a binding global accord on cutting greenhouse gases will spare Africa, the world's poorest continent, more devastating floods, droughts and famine, a senior African climate change official said on Tuesday" at a U.N. climate conference in Durban, South Africa, Reuters reports.

Super committee ends work without a deal; Automatic cuts take effect in 2013

November 23, 2011
A special congressional committee created to try to curb the national debt abandoned its work and conceded failure Monday. ... Although Republicans offered to raise taxes by $300 billion over the next decade, they insisted on conditions that all but guaranteed that the wealthy would not be hit hard. And ...

Super committee ends talks without deal

November 22, 2011
Late Monday afternoon, the co-chairmen of the congressional super committee announced that their talks had ended in stalemate. In a joint statement, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, said, "After months of hard work and intense deliberations, we have come to the conclusion today that it will ...