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> U.K. general practitioners got a 30 percent annual salary boost this year, spurred by pay for performance incentives. Article

> A bill traveling through the New Jersey legislature would expand the mental health and substance abuse benefits state insurers must provide. Article

> A family has sued the city of Washington, D.C., contending that a relative died because she waited 90 minutes for an ambulance to arrive. Article

> California controller Steve Westly makes the case for state-level disease management programs. Column

> In India, public health officials bring a "clinic on wheels" to vulnerable streetwalkers in red-light districts. Article

> A new study has found that 12 percent of people playing massive multiplayer online games (MMOs) exhibited at least three of the symptoms of addiction as defined by the WHO, including craving, withdrawal symptoms, loss of control and neglect of other activities. Report

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