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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Leaders of the Kickapoo Indian Nation have declared an emergency as they face a shortage of funds to keep a health clinic open. The northeast Kansas tribe has asked the U.S. Indian Health Service for $150,000 to help keep the ...

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AP Top Kansas News at 3:58 a.m. CDT, KS - Rocky Mountain News

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. - A former Macomb County employee who spent just a few days on the job has been sentenced to probation for defrauding the county out of $230,000 in government-funded health care benefits. Thirty-eight-year-old Jackie Youhanian ...

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Ex-Macomb worker gets 5 years' probation for fraud - Chicago Tribune

A FORMER WA and NSW health department boss will be acquitted on 100 charges of wrongfully claiming expenses, despite a finding he acted dishonestly. Michael Harris Moodie, who has served as a regional health service chief in both states, was ...

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Former health boss Michael Moodie cleared of 100 charges - News.com.au

-- Shared Health, Inc., one of the nation's largest public/private health information exchanges (HIE), has built its new clinical data-sharing platform, the Shared Health Clinical Xchange, on Oracle healthcare solutions and infrastructure software ...

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Shared Health Builds New Clinical Data-Sharing Platform on Oracle ... - MSN MoneyCentral

ALTHOUGH the health debate seems, obsessively, to be about the National Health Service, the principal determinants of health lie outside the NHS. Poverty, housing, environment, employment, family and heredity are all potentially more significant ...

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Andrew Lansley: The Tory prescription for a healthier society - yorkshirepost

THE NHS is set to make record savings this year while thousands of patients are refused drugs because health chiefs claim there is not enough money to go around. The health service is predicting a surplus of £1.7billion at the end of 2008-9, up from ...

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PATIENTS' FURY AS NHS SAVES £1.7BN - Daily Express

LONDON : The healthcare cost-effectiveness watchdog NICE has recommended Novartis AG's pricey eye drug Lucentis, under a special scheme that will cap the cost of treatment to the state health service. The move, which follows a draft plan agreed last ...

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NICE endorses Novartis eye drug Lucentis - International Herald Tribune

State workers who are AFSCME members will get a total of 15.2 percent in salary increases during the next four years under a tentative contract settlement. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees will pay more for their ...

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Tentative AFSCME deal includes raises - State Journal-Register

Aurora Imaging Technology Inc. today announced that the Aurora(R) 1.5Tesla Dedicated Breast MRI System is now available to patients in northern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire at Aurora Breast MRI of Beverly Hospital. The Aurora System is ...

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Aurora Breast MRI of Beverly Hospital Provides Advanced Imaging ... - Forbes

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Leaders of the Kickapoo Indian Nation have declared an emergency as they face a shortage of funds to keep a health clinic open. The northeast Kansas tribe has asked the U.S. Indian Health Service for $150,000 to help keep the ...

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