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'States' Tag
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Ensure USPTO has access to all of its fee collections – The Hill
July 28, 2010Ensure USPTO has access to all of its fee collectionsThe HillAn important item on Congress’ to-do list before its August district work period is to ensure the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has …ABOUT THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICEPR-inside.com (press release)United States Patent and Trademark Office Grants EVCARCO Its Registered …Trading [...]
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VA to allow patients to use medical marijuana
July 26, 2010[Story ID: 3224] The Department of Veterans Affairs will formally allow patients treated at its hospitals and clinics to use medical marijuana in states where it is legal, a policy clarification that veterans have sought for several years. A department directive, expected to take effect next week, resolves the conflict in veterans facilities between federal [...]
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Florida Medicaid recipients make fewer trips to doctors; Calif. payments to health clinics in jeopardy; Texas addresses nursing shortage
July 15, 2010[Story ID: 2895] Northeast Florida’s Medicaid recipients are making fewer trips to the doctor for chronic illnesses since state officials outsourced the government-subsidized health insurance program to private managed care companies. But it remains unclear from the analysis performed by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, which oversees the state’s Medicaid program, whether they’re [...]
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Hospice care falls as more Americans spend final days in hospitals; Milwaukee hospital reports success with treatment guidelines
June 29, 2010[Story ID: 2542] The Associated Press: “Americans increasingly are treated to death, spending more time in hospitals in their final days, trying last-ditch treatments that often buy only weeks of time, and racking up bills that have made medical care a leading cause of bankruptcies. More than 80 percent of people who die in the [...]
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Pennsylvania reports drop in hospital infections, other patient care issues include CT scans
June 25, 2010[Story ID: 2506] The Pennsylvania Department of Health found that 12.5 percent fewer patients contracted infections in the state’s hospitals in 2009 than a year earlier, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. But the reports shows that there were 25,914 infections in 2009. “‘Though the report seems to show we’re making progress, 25,914 is still a [...]
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Utah to run state high-risk pool while still opposing health law
June 25, 2010[Story ID: 2512] Utah Republican Gov. Gary R. Herbert has announced that the state “will join 29 other states and the District of Columbia” to run their own high-risk health insurance pools, while “[o]ther states let the federal government handle the program, concerned they would have to pay for it if they exhausted their federal [...]
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States to curb retiree benefits in search of savings
June 5, 2010[Story ID: 2171] States are seeking savings in public employee retiree benefits to close sprawling budget gaps, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. “New Jersey and 20 other states are urging early retirements, cutting benefits and demanding employees contribute more in the face of what the Pew Center on the States says is a $1 trillion gap between [...]
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Economic access becomes primary research focus in public health nutrition
May 25, 2010[Story ID: 1997] Ensuring access to healthy, affordable foods is a top priority in tackling the obesity epidemic in the United States. Over the course of the last six months, the Institute of Medicine, United States Department of Agriculture, The White House and First Lady Michelle Obama have taken an interest in improving access to [...]
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Medicaid news: Early expansion unlikely in Ohio, Florida disputes managed care
May 21, 2010[Story ID: 1962] “A tight state budget will make an expansion of health care coverage for the poor and disabled unlikely in Ohio this year, an option given to states under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, the state’s Medicaid chief said Thursday. … it’s unclear how many will use Medicaid to fill coverage gaps [...]
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Challenges to health reform face long campaign in many states
May 13, 2010[Story ID: 1814] Thirty-three states are trying to block the mandate on individual American citizens to purchase health insurance, “as a growing roster of mostly Republican officials have mounted legal and legislative challenges” to this requirement. “This Friday, seven more states will formally join a lawsuit originally filed by Florida and 12 other states in [...]