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New Edition of the Guide to Home Health Care Agencies
Home Health Compare can assist in choosing the best local home health agency - based on past performance helping patients get better and improving their ability to function at home. By looking at the type of care the beneficiary needs and seeing what portion of each agency’s patients achieve the best results (”outcomes”) for that type of care, beneficiaries and their families can make sure that they choose the agency with the best track record.

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Medicare & You contains important information about what’s new, health plans, prescription drug plans, and rights and protections to help people with Medicare review their coverage options and prepare to enroll in a new plan if they choose. It is available in both English and Spanish.Each fall, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services mails a geographic-specific version to all households of people with Medicare. In 2009, there are 59 geographic-specific versions with drug and health plan comparison charts for particular states or regions.

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FDA Panels to Advise on LABA Study Designs
The FDA is seeking advice this week from two of its advisory committees on how manufacturers of a major group of asthma drugs should study their potential risks.

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SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) — Robot-assisted surgery for prostate cancer may require alteration in radiation planning but doesn’t preclude sufficient lymph node sampling, according to results of two studies.

Medicare to Drug Plan Operator: You re Fired
Medicare has terminated its contract with Fox Insurance Co., a prescription drug plan operator handling 123,000 beneficiaries in 21 states, because the government said it was improperly denying claims.

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Donors who gave up a kidney to save another person’s life paid no penalty in their own long-term survival, a study of national data suggested.

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Head-to-head studies of different drugs have dominated comparative effectiveness research to date, while other types of studies that might be equally useful have been neglected, researchers said.

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medicare has terminated its contract with Fox Insurance Co., a prescription drug plan operator handling 123,000 beneficiaries in 21 states, because the government said it was improperly denying claims.

Labor Groups Protest Insurance Companies
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Cancer is not quite the killer it was 20 years ago. The American Cancer Society found that “age-standardized” cancer deaths among men declined by 21% from 1990, while the rate among women declined by 12% from 1991 to 2006.

Labor Groups Protest Insurance Companies
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — Supporters of healthcare reform rallied against health insurers Tuesday, further casting the industry as the villain in the often theatrical healthcare reform debate.

Kidney Donors Survive Just Fine (CME/CE, with video)
Donors who gave up a kidney to save another person’s life paid no penalty in their own long-term survival, a study of national data suggested.

medicare to Drug Plan Operator: You re Fired
medicare has terminated its contract with Fox Insurance Co., a prescription drug plan operator handling 123,000 beneficiaries in 21 states, because the government said it was improperly denying claims.

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Head-to-head studies of different drugs have dominated comparative effectiveness research to date, while other types of studies that might be equally useful have been neglected, researchers said.

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Thirty-somethings can expect to enjoy at least another 30 years of sex, researchers have found.

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FDA Panels to Advise on LABA Study Designs
The FDA is seeking advice this week from two of its advisory committees on how manufacturers of a major group of asthma drugs should study their potential risks.

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FDA Panels to Advise on LABA Study Designs
The FDA is seeking advice this week from two of its advisory committees on how manufacturers of a major group of asthma drugs should study their potential risks.

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Kidney Donors Survive Just Fine (CME/CE, with video)
Donors who gave up a kidney to save another person’s life paid no penalty in their own long-term survival, a study of national data suggested.

Medicare to Drug Plan Operator: You re Fired
Medicare has terminated its contract with Fox Insurance Co., a prescription drug plan operator handling 123,000 beneficiaries in 21 states, because the government said it was improperly denying claims.

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ASCO GU: Robotic Surgery Changes Some Prostate CA Treatment
SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) — Robot-assisted surgery for prostate cancer may require alteration in radiation planning but doesn’t preclude sufficient lymph node sampling, according to results of two studies.

ACS Stats Find Gains in War on Cancer
Cancer is not quite the killer it was 20 years ago. The American Cancer Society found that “age-standardized” cancer deaths among men declined by 21% from 1990, while the rate among women declined by 12% from 1991 to 2006.

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Thirty-somethings can expect to enjoy at least another 30 years of sex, researchers have found.