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Health overhaul confuses Medicare beneficiaries

Health overhaul confuses Medicare beneficiaries

MIAMI (AP) — Pricey seniors, your Medicare advantages aren't changing underneath the Affordable Care Act. That's the message federal well being officials are looking to get out to aged customers puzzled by means of overlapping enrollment classes for Medicare and so-called "Obamacare."

 
 

Haves and have-nots as health care markets open

Haves and have-nots as health care markets open

WASHINGTON (AP) — Having health insurance used to hinge on the place you labored and what your medical history stated. Quickly that won't matter, with open-get right of entry to markets for subsidized protection coming Oct. 1 below President Barack Obama's overhaul.

 
 

Scientists find clue to age-related memory loss

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have discovered a compelling clue within the quest to research what causes age-related reminiscence problems, and to at some point be capable to tell if those misplaced automobile keys are only a senior moment or an early warning of one thing worse.

 
 

160 quarantined after plague death in Kyrgyzstan

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — Four individuals had been hospitalized and one hundred sixty quarantined after a 15-year-old boy who ate marmot meat died of the bubonic plague ultimate week, the Kyrgyz Ministry of Well being said Wednesday.

 
 

Some school districts quit healthier lunch program

Some school districts quit healthier lunch program

After only one yr, some schools across the united states are falling by the wayside of the healthier new federal lunch software, complaining that so many students became up their noses at meals packed with entire grains, vegetables and fruit that the cafeterias have been dropping cash.

 
 

Legionnaires’ outbreak hits Ohio retirement center

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Health officials say Ohio’s greatest outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease has killed five folks and sickened 39 others at a retirement group considering the fact that July.

 
 

Cause of stomach illness difficult to detect

Cause of stomach illness difficult to detect

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donna Heller thought she had cancer. But more than one visits to the doctor after a month with debilitating nausea and diarrhea didn't yield any answers. Yes she was death, she met along with her lawyer to get her will in order.

 
 

Stomach bug in 2 states linked to Mexican farm

Stomach bug in 2 states linked to Mexican farm

WASHINGTON (AP) — An endemic of stomach illnesses in Iowa and Nebraska has been linked to salad combine served at native Olive Backyard and Crimson Lobster eating places and provided by way of a Mexican farm.

 
 

Study: Doctors often on board to help sick fliers

Is there a health care provider on board? Pretty incessantly, there’s — in 1/2 of in-flight medical emergencies — and ailing airline passengers nearly all the time continue to exist, a brand new learn about finds.

 
 

Decontaminating patients cuts hospital infections

Decontaminating patients cuts hospital infections

CHICAGO (AP) — Infections in U.S. hospitals kill tens of hundreds of people each and every year, and lots of establishments fight back by using screening new patients to see if they carry a deadly germ, and setting apart folks who do. However an important learn about suggests a much […]

 
 

Healthy quintuplets born in Salt Lake hospital

Healthy quintuplets born in Salt Lake hospital

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah lady gave beginning to a wholesome set of quintuplets over the weekend with lend a hand from a staff of eight doctors, one anesthesiologist and dozens of nurses ensuring the mummy and the tiny babies survived.

 
 

WHO says single yellow fever shot is enough

GENEVA (AP) — The World Well being Group says a yellow fever booster vaccination given 10 years after the initial shot is not important.

 
 

Correction: New Virus story

NEW YORK (AP) — In a story Could 15 about a new SARS-like virus spreading from patients to well being care employees in Saudi Arabia, The Associated Press reported erroneously the location of the 20 deaths attributed to the virus. There had been no deaths pronounced in France and Qatar, […]

 
 

Tiny preemies get a boost from live music therapy

Tiny preemies get a boost from live music therapy

CHICAGO (AP) — As the guitarist strums and softly sings a lullaby in Spanish, tiny Augustin Morales stops squirming in his clinic crib and closes his eyes.

 
 

AP Exclusive: Calif. exchange granted secrecy

AP Exclusive: Calif. exchange granted secrecy

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California law that created an company to oversee nationwide health care reforms granted it huge authority to conceal spending on the contractors so one can perform most of its capabilities, doubtlessly protecting the general public from seeing how a whole lot of millions of bucks […]