Health Care & Prescription Drugs In the News
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Drug Group Urges Limits on Gifts to Doctors
- San Francisco Chronicle (new window)
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Some of those pens, pads and clocks plastered with drug logos could disappear from your doctor's office under voluntary marketing restrictions issued Thursday by the nation's biggest drug industry trade group. |
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Health Care: The Push for Reform: Report: $1 Billion Wasted in California
- San Diego-Union Tribune (new window)
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Californians can save more than $1 billion each year by eliminating unnecessary medical treatments, using less-expensive but equally effective drugs and reducing other kinds of waste from the health care system, said a report released yesterday by the California Public Interest Research Group. |
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Taxing tobacco for California's Health
- San Diego Union-Tribune (new window)
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Op-ed by Michael Russo |
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California can't wait for health care reform
- San Francisco Chronicle (new window)
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Op-ed by Michael Russo and John Arensmeyer |
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Health Care Billing Fight is Looming
- San Diego Union Tribune (new window)
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Doctors and hospital officials will square off with health insurers Monday in San Diego over a state plan to ban medical providers from billing emergency room patients for charges not covered by insurance companies. |
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