Beat the High Cost of Health Insurance (Hope Star)

(ARA) – Anyone who has shopped for or is currently paying for health insurance knows that consumers are paying more than ever before for their policies. But the numbers are staggering.

Is it the flu? Take the fast flu test

March 30, 2007 by CNN.com - Health · Leave a Comment 

Fast flu tests, which drastically cut the time to diagnose a patient with influenza or not, are helping doctors better treat the illness, according to a recent study and medical experts.

NCQA Recognizes Blue Cross of California for Physician and Hospital Quality Measures (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Blue Cross of California announced today it is among the first health plans in California to achieve Quality Plus Distinction for Physician and Hospital Quality from the National Committee for Quality Assurance .

As California Goes… (The Nation via Yahoo! News)

The Nation — The contention that California is the nation’s bellwether is so common that you want to argue with it–and of late many have, contending that the state is now too Democratic, too liberal socially, too rabidly environmentalist to be a national trend setter.

Constipation drug pulled at FDA’s request

March 30, 2007 by CNN.com - Health · Leave a Comment 

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