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Medicare Fraud Charged Against 91

International Herald Tribune - Posted: October 4th, 2012, 10:56pm EDT

Hospital administrators, doctors and nurses have been charged over $430 million in false claims made to Medicare after an investigation by federal authorities.img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640346/s/2423e70e/mf.gif' border='0'/

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News Analysis: News Analysis: A Question of Oversight on Compounding Pharmacies

International Herald Tribune - Posted: October 4th, 2012, 10:31pm EDT

The growing outbreak of meningitis was a calamity waiting to happen — the result of a lightly regulated type of drug production that had a troubled past colliding with a popular treatment.img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640346/s/24237ab8/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/146820694415/u/0/f/640346/c/34625/s/24237ab8/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/146820694415/u/0/f/640346/c/34625/s/24237ab8/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/146820694415/u/0/f/640346/c/34625/s/24237ab8/a2t.img" border="0"/

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F.D.A. Says Avoid Drugs From Company Tied to Meningitis

International Herald Tribune - Posted: October 4th, 2012, 7:31pm EDT

U.S. officials ramped up warnings Thursday about a Massachusetts pharmacy linked to a widening outbreak of a rare kind of meningitis, urging doctors and hospitals not to use any products from the company.img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640346/s/2422c052/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/146820984790/u/0/f/640346/c/34625/s/2422c052/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/146820984790/u/0/f/640346/c/34625/s/2422c052/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/146820984790/u/0/f/640346/c/34625/s/2422c052/a2t.img" border="0"/

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FDA Says Avoid Drugs From Company Tied to Meningitis

International Herald Tribune - Posted: October 4th, 2012, 6:55pm EDT

U.S. officials ramped up warnings Thursday about a Massachusetts pharmacy linked to a widening outbreak of a rare kind of meningitis, urging doctors and hospitals not to use any products from the company.img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640346/s/2422c052/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/146820984790/u/0/f/640346/c/34625/s/2422c052/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/146820984790/u/0/f/640346/c/34625/s/2422c052/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/146820984790/u/0/f/640346/c/34625/s/2422c052/a2t.img" border="0"/

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Well: Living With Cancer: We Are Seven

International Herald Tribune - Posted: October 4th, 2012, 2:18pm EDT

It is our luck that we are seven women grappling with various stages and types of gynecological cancer in a small group that no one in his or her right mind would want to join.img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640346/s/24215006/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/146820875823/u/0/f/640346/c/34625/s/24215006/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/146820875823/u/0/f/640346/c/34625/s/24215006/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/146820875823/u/0/f/640346/c/34625/s/24215006/a2t.img" border="0"/

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Living With Cancer: We Are Seven

International Herald Tribune - Posted: October 4th, 2012, 2:18pm EDT

It is our luck that we are seven women grappling with various stages and types of gynecological cancer in a small group that no one in his or her right mind would want to join.img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640346/s/24215006/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/146820875823/u/0/f/640346/c/34625/s/24215006/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/146820875823/u/0/f/640346/c/34625/s/24215006/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/146820875823/u/0/f/640346/c/34625/s/24215006/a2t.img" border="0"/

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Doctor and Patient: Sharing Medical Records With Patients

International Herald Tribune - Posted: October 4th, 2012, 12:18pm EDT

In a one-year trial, patients who were allowed to read all the notes their doctors wrote about them in their medical charts were enthusiastic. Surprisingly, so were most of their doctors.img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640346/s/24208c78/mf.gif' border='0'/

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Think Like a Doctor: The Girl in a Coma

International Herald Tribune - Posted: October 4th, 2012, 7:42am EDT

Can you solve the mystery of a 20-year-old young woman who is dropped off at the emergency room unconscious after attending a concert the night before?img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640346/s/2419456d/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/146820961145/u/0/f/640346/c/34625/s/2419456d/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/146820961145/u/0/f/640346/c/34625/s/2419456d/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/146820961145/u/0/f/640346/c/34625/s/2419456d/a2t.img" border="0"/

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Well: Think Like a Doctor: The Girl in a Coma

International Herald Tribune - Posted: October 4th, 2012, 12:02am EDT

Can you solve the mystery of a 20-year-old young woman who is dropped off at the emergency room unconscious after attending a concert the night before?img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640346/s/2419456d/mf.gif' border='0'/

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