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Report:12 million Americans rejected by health plans
A new report from HHS concludes that the current health insurance system rejected 12.6 million non-elderly adults, or 36 percent of those who attempted to buy health coverage, during the past year.... Read more...
Group asks FDA to pull birth control patch off market
Arguing that it's a far riskier treatment than the pill, consumer advocacy group Public Citizen has asked the FDA to pull the birth control patch Ortho-Evra off the market. Over the last few years,... Read more...
ALSO NOTED: NJ flunks Medicaid security audit; Study says infants aren't getting vaccines on time; and much more...
> New Jersey's Medicaid program has flunked a state security audit, which found that the program isn't doing enough to monitor who looks at sensitive data. Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: To cut costs, more hospitals re-using devices
Increasingly, hospitals are recycling medical devices labeled as single-use, from scissors and scrubs to surgical blades. While this is legal--as long as certain FDA guidelines are followed in... Read more...
