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The country's largest outbreak of cyclosporiasis has ended, federal health officials said Friday. The foodborne illness linked to contaminated lettuce sickened 12,883 people across 21 states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with more than 500…
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Read full article →Automation in healthcare gains value when it strengthens the conditions that allow clinicians to practice at the top of their training. The post Augmenting the Systems That Support Patient Mobility appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →From new hires to departures, promotions and transfers, here are the latest comings and goings in the pharmaceutical industry.
Read full article →New Medicaid rules use allow use of tiers to determine work exemptions. Advocates fear complex guidelines could cause patients to lose insurance.
Read full article →Novartis investors are stepping up scrutiny of the company's dealmaking after setbacks to drugs it acquired through mergers and acquisitions
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Read full article →The worst U.S. measles outbreak in decades is growing and flu season is imminent. Experts are fretting about federal health data reliability after the CDC questioned two Pennsylvania measles deaths.
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- A fifth of patients receiving treatment for neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration (AMD) stopped care without explanation during long-term follow-up in a large multicenter Canadian cohort. Overall, 527 of the 2,556...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record in eastern Congo is rapidly spreading beyond its epicenter, the Africa CDC warned, and a seventh province is now involved...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Last week, leading medical societies did something both unusual and indispensable: The American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and Infectious...
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