(MedPage Today) — As part of the Year in Review series, MedPage Today reporters are revisiting major news stories and following up with an analysis of the impact of the original report, as well as subsequent news generated by the initial publication. Here’s what’s happened on the breast cancer screening front this year.
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(MedPage Today) — Our Year in Review series highlights the major medical news stories of 2010. New breast cancer screening recommendations was one of the compelling topics that made headlines during the year and here, again, is the original article, first published on Jan. 14, 2010. In a companion article, you’ll find out what’s happened [...]
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued proposed regulations outlining the process for reviewing rate increase requests from health insurers, though it will be unable to order changes.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — The maker of multiple brands of glucose test strips — Abbott Diabetes Care — issued a voluntary recall of several hundred product lots of the test strips, due to falsely low readouts of blood glucose which could result in over- or under-treatment of diabetic patients.
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(MedPage Today) — The placebo effect works — even when the patient knows it’s a placebo — demonstrating that it is a ‘ritual of medicine’ and not an attempt to fool patients, according to the results of a small randomized clinical trial
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(MedPage Today) — Birth rates continue to drop among American women, hitting a record low overall and among teens, the CDC reported.
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(MedPage Today) — Following the lead of its European counterpart, the FDA has begun a review of the safety of somatotropin agents in light of a French study suggesting increased deaths among adults treated with the growth hormone analogues as children.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — Congress has passed a $4.3-billion measure to cover healthcare costs for first responders who became ill from working at the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — The maker of multiple brands of glucose test strips — Abbott Diabetes Care — issued a voluntary recall of several hundred product lots of the test strips, due to falsely low readouts of blood glucose which could result in over- or under-treatment of diabetic patients.
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(MedPage Today) — Following the lead of its European counterpart, the FDA has begun a review of the safety of somatotropin agents in light of a French study suggesting increased deaths among adults treated with the growth hormone analogues as children.
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