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News: National Health Network Should Be Set Up for Research
News: Insurance Plans Cooperate to Provide Online Health Info
News: Gates Foundation Gives $83M to Fight Malaria
Identity Theft: Providence Health's Serious Pain
News: Biomet to Be Bought by Private Equity Group
News: IBM Develops Technology to Check Drug Authenticity
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News: National Health Network Should Be Set Up for Research
A Washington-based nonprofit think tank and advocacy group says the Nationwide Health Information Network should be set up to conduct clinical research.
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News: Insurance Plans Cooperate to Provide Online Health Info
A week after several large employers announced plans to create online personal health records for millions of their employees, large insurers said they would do the same thing for their members.
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News: Gates Foundation Gives $83M to Fight Malaria
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledges $83.5 million to fight malaria by paying for better controls, vaccine research and prevention of a disease that kills more than a million people a year.
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Identity Theft: Providence Health's Serious Pain
When 10 backup tapes and disks were stolen from the back of a Providence Health & Services employee's minivan, thieves potentially gained access to the private information of 365,000 patients. Now, one year and $7 million later, the health care provider remains mired in the aftermath.
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News: Biomet to Be Bought by Private Equity Group
The orthopedic device maker will be acquired by a private equity consortium for about $10.9 billion, eight months after putting itself on the auction block.
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News: IBM Develops Technology to Check Drug Authenticity
IBM says it has developed technology to help drug distributors, manufacturers and retailers prevent counterfeit drugs from making their way into the market.
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