ALSO NOTED: Stents causing needless deaths; Healthways buys preventative-care firm; and much more...

> In a recent journal article, researchers argue that drug-coated stents cause 2,000 needless deaths per year. Editorial

> Disease management company Healthways has agreed to acquire preventative-health firm Axia Health Management for $450 million. Article

> The South Broward Hospital District, which operates the Hollywood, FL-based Memorial Healthcare System, is planning to buy Tenet Healthcare's 324-bed Hollywood Medical Center for $32 million. Article

> Elsewhere in south Florida, Miami's Public Health Trust of Miami Dade County has agreed to purchase another Tenet hospital, 382-bed Parkway Regional Medical Center, for $35 million. Article

And Finally... The psychiatric revolution will not be televised--or will it? Article

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