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UnitedHealth Takes On Microsoft, Google With Online Health Venture

Posted by alex 1 day 21 hours ago (http://blogs.wsj.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: healthvault google health

Not wishing to be outdone by the likes of Microsoft and Google, UnitedHealth Group today launched its own Web site for people to store their personal health information.Getty Images read more »
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Leftover Turkey Recipes: A Pressing Health Issue

Posted by alex 3 days ago (http://blogs.wsj.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: leftover turkey

Associated PressBefore the Health Blog signs off for the day, we thought we’d consult with the American health establishment on a pressing question: What to do with leftover t read more »
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Wyeth Names Kamarck to Run Factories

Posted by alex 10 days ago (http://blogs.wsj.com)
Category: Blogs

When Wyeth named Michael Kamarck as its new head of manufacturing this week, we asked, “Who is that guy?”
Wyeth indulged us. And we found out Kamarck, 57, was trained as a biochemist read more »
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Stephen Colbert for FDA Commissioner?

Posted by alex 16 days ago (http://blogs.wsj.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: fda

We are soooo late to this party, but it’s such a delicious one that we just can’t resist a weekend post. On Wednesday, Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert, of all people, weighed read more »
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Rep. Dingell: Economic Stimulus Should Include NIH, Medicaid

Posted by alex 19 days ago (http://blogs.wsj.com)
Category: Blogs

Congress is about to meet in a lame duck session to try and help the economy by spending some extra money.
John Dingell, the Dem who chairs the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, hel read more »
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Merck’s Heart Remains Steadfast in Hunt for Cardiovascular Drugs

Posted by alex 24 days ago (http://blogs.wsj.com)
Category: Blogs

Merck wants the world to know that when it comes to developing new drugs for cardiovascular disease, the company is in the fight for the long haul.
At the American Heart Association’s annu read more »
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Wages Are ‘Too Small a Donkey’ to Carry the Load of Health Costs

Posted by alex 25 days ago (http://blogs.wsj.com)
Category: Blogs

You think the cost of health care is hard on lower-middle-income families right now? In a few years, if current trends continue, it will be much worse.
Families with a “gross wage baseR read more »
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Why Big Pharma come to China

Posted by alex 266 days ago (http://www.cctv.com)
Category: Corporate | Tags: pharma

Today, we take a look at large, multi-national pharmaceutical companies. Annie Fu finds out why they have come to China, and what that means for the industry. China is on the minds and lips of the CE read more »
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Study: Post-menopause hormone pills linked to cancer - USATODAY.com

Posted by alex 273 days ago (http://www.usatoday.com)
Category: Research & Development | Tags: hormone prempro

Patients in the study, the Women's Health Initiative, took the hormone combination, sold under the brand name of Prempro, for an average of 5½ years. Two or three years later, their risks of heart a read more »
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Analyzing the side effects of drug ads - USATODAY.com

Posted by alex 273 days ago (http://www.usatoday.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: drug ads

A few times every week, patients ask Jim King about drugs they've seen advertised. "They'll say, 'I saw this ad on TV, and I think I have this medical problem,'" says King, a family physician i read more »
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