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News : health : posted : May 17, 2008

• Kaiser, Health Net to reinstate some policies - del.icio.us Two health insurers - Kaiser Permanente and Health Net - agreed Thursday to reinstate policies for members who were stripped of their coverage after they incurred medical expenses. Thursday's actions were part of an investigation by state
  23 hours ago : San Francisco Gate
• Hepatitis C outbreak linked to reuse of syringes, CDC says - RENO, Nev. A hepatitis C outbreak was caused by workers improperly reusing syringes and medicine vials at a Las Vegas clinic, federal health officials said Friday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC was contacted by state health
  12 hours ago : Seattle Times
• People over 60 urged to get one-time shingles shot - ATLANTA People 60 and older should get a one-time shingles shot that can help prevent the painful rash, U.S. health officials are recommending. There's a 50-50 chance the shot will prevent shingles for those 60 and up, though the odds get worse
  1 day ago : Houston Chronicle
• Stepheson leaving UNC for family reasons - CHAPEL HILL, N.C. North Carolina forward Alex Stepheson is transferring because he wants to be closer to his family in California. Stepheson said Friday in a statement that his family is facing unspecified health concerns. Stepheson is a Los
  1 day ago : ESPN.com
• Vog from Kilauea covers Hawaiian Islands - HONOLULU As a haze generated by a new vent in Kilauea volcano obscured Oahu commuters' views of Diamond Head and settled over most of the islands Thursday, the Hawaii County Civil Defense issued a health advisory for areas closest to the steaming
  1 day ago : Seattle Post Intelligencer
• Indonesia ends bird flu stalemate - Indonesia's health minister said Thursday she would start sharing all genetic information about her country's bird flu virus with a new global database, to monitor whether the disease is mutating into a dangerous pandemic strain. China, Russia and
  1 day ago : BusinessWeek
• China child virus death toll up to 43 - A 22-month-old girl from eastern Jiangxi province died Thursday in a local hospital, health officials told the state-run Xinhua News Agency. As of Wednesday, the hand, foot and mouth disease virus had sickened more than 24,934 children in seven
  1 day ago : Salon
• FDA warns of fetal risk with transplant drugs - WASHINGTON Reuters - U.S. health officials issued an alert on Friday warning about the risk of miscarriages and birth defects with transplant drugs sold by Novartis AG and Roche Holding AG. The warning applies to Roche's CellCept and Novartis
  1 day ago : Reuters
• Myanmar health system strained by cyclone - TWANTE, Myanmar AP - Saw Htin's cheeks were wet with tears after waiting in line with hundreds of sick, desperate cyclone survivors. The 18-year-old mother clutched her wheezing baby boy. He coughed and cried all night,'' she explained
  42 minutes ago : Guardian Unlimited
• Insights into the world Pro-market theory hurts health care - The world is increasingly polarizing into the wealthy and the impoverished. Japan, for its part, is faced with a rapid increase in the number of working poor people who work hard but end up earning less than 2 million yen, and occasionally less than
  1 hour ago : Daily Yomiuri On-Line