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Team Treatment Helps Depression, Chronic Disease
WebMD Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:18 PM PST
More than 40% of older Americans have multiple chronic conditions, such as diabetes and heart disease, and many also suffer from depression.

Team-Based Treatment Helps Those With Cluster of Chronic Illnesses
HealthDay via Yahoo! News Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:03 PM PST
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 29 (HealthDay News) -- A treatment team headed by an experienced nurse improved the health of patients suffering from multiple chronic illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes and depression.

Rationing Revealed at the Heart of Obamacare
FOX 61 Chattanooga Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:00 PM PST
If you like police officers having quotas for speeding tickets, you will love the Obama administration's new health care regulations. Doctors are going to be paid for giving "end-of-life counseling," one version of what was labeled as "death panels" during the health care debate this last spring.

Berks County will miss Sen. Mike O’Pake
Kutztown Area Patriot Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:40 PM PST
The longest-serving member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, State Sen. Mike O’Pake, 70, died Monday at the Reading Hospital and Medical Center where he had been recovering from complications suffered during heart bypass surgery Nov. 22.

New law keeps seriously ill with current doctors
News 12 Augusta Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:39 PM PST
Health insurers will be required to continue coverage for serious conditions such as cancer, heart disease and pregnancy at no extra cost when their in-network doctors leave an insurer's network.

Dr. Billy Taylor, Washington Jazz Legend, Dies At 89
DCist Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:30 PM PST
Dr. Billy Taylor, pictured with his trio. Dr. Billy Taylor , a Washington music legend who performed with legends such as Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie and earned 23 honorary doctoral degrees, two Peabody Awards, an Emmy, a Grammy and the National Medal of the Arts in his 60-plus-year career, died last night after suffering a heart attack in New York. Taylor was 89. Taylor, a ...

Poor response to anti-anemia drug predicts higher risk of heart disease or death
Science Daily Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:25 PM PST
Patients with diabetes, kidney disease and anemia who don't respond to treatment with an anti-anemia drug have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease or death, researchers have found.

Ind. Transplant Recipient To Ride In Rose Parade
WRTV Indianapolis Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:24 PM PST
A Plainfield man who received a heart transplant in 2004 will take part in this weekend's Rose Parade.

Gifts of Life
The Harlan Tribune Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:17 PM PST
DEFIANCE -- For a few moments on the last day of July this year, the world seemed to stand still for Bob and Carrie Wurr of Defiance. After three years on the transplant list awaiting a new heart and liver, a nurse entered Bob’s hospital room at Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester, Minn. with the news they had been waiting to hear, a surgeon was looking at possible organs for Bob.

Henderson Co. investigator dies at 42
KLTV 7 Tyler Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:46 PM PST
Jody Miller, the lead investigator with the Henderson County District Attorney's office passed away Tuesday night of a heart attack at age 42.




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