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Doctors face quandary of relieving pain, without feeding addiction

A growing number of health care groups in the Twin Cities are investing in strategies to make sure doctors don't serve as unwitting spigots of medications for addicts. But there's […]
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Treatment guidelines heavily influenced by Dr.'s with interest in drug companies

"Doctors with financial ties to drug companies have heavily influenced treatment guidelines recommending the most lucrative drugs in American medicine, an analysis by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today […]
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VA support coming too late to veterans

"The VA’s inability to pay benefits to veterans before they die is increasingly common, according to data obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting." "The data reveals, for the first […]
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Extra Extra Monday: Student debt, river debates, lead contamination and opiate addictions

Milwaukee Journal SentinelThe Wrong-Way River“Biologists predict the number of unwanted organisms moving on the Chicago canal will only grow until the waterway is somehow plugged. And it is much more […]
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MN state reps under scrutiny for ties to insurance firm

An investigation by MPR News has found that a "Republican state representative who steered legislation through the House to drop thousands of people from the state-run MinnesotaCare program is an […]
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Dying For Relief: Reckless prescribing, patients endangered

According to an investigation by the Los Angeles Times, "By the time the medical board stopped Estiandan from prescribing, more than four years after it began investigating, eight of his […]
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Fake medical providers slip through Medicare loophole

According to an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “For years, officials at the agency that administers Medicare have known that fraudsters sign up as health care providers using UPS Store […]
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California police ignored, mishandled sex assaults reported by disabled

In three dozen cases of developmentally disabled patients accusing caretakers of rape and molestation during the past four years, police failed to complete even the simplest tasks associated with investigating […]
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Advair boomed amid health risks

"A Journal Sentinel/MedPage Today investigation found the growth in Advair sales followed new asthma treatment recommendations that were written largely by doctors who received money from GlaxoSmithKline and other companies […]
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Storms increase insurance rates, but is it justified?

As homeowners begin to pick up the pieces following the destruction of Hurricane Sandy, their focus turns to insurance. Echoing the situation on the east coast, the Minneapolis Star Tribune […]
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