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At Boston Children's Hospital, transgender services have been a decade in the...
Dr. Norman Spack has been treating transgender children at Boston Children's Hospital for over a decade, initiating treatment to halt the progression of puberty in kids who identify as transgender and...
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Blue Cross Blue Shield CEO: Losses tied to health care reform 'unsustainable'
Brad Wilson, president and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, wasn’t bashful discussing what’s driving up health insurance costs — including the Affordable Care Act — during the Charlotte...
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Health leaders speak out, voice support of Phila. soda tax
Area doctors and public health advocates are stepping up their support of a sugary drink tax in Philadelphia. The health arguments for a tax have been largely absent from the latest debate, with Mayor...
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San Antonio biotech firm takes big step toward global expansion
StemBioSys Inc. has crossed another critical threshold in its evolution. The San Antonio-based biotech company has secured patent approval for three pending applications, including one in China and two...
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P&G responds to health concerns about its Febreze product
Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble Co. has made the ingredients in its Febreze brand of air freshener public in an effort to eliminate health concerns raised in South Korea. The Asian nation’s...
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Planned Prince George's Regional Medical Center may have to scale back
Maryland regulators are calling for the planned Prince George's County Regional Medical Center to be scaled back by at least $100 million to win state approval. The cost cuts were among a number of...
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Ascension ad campaign brings more veterans to system
St. Louis-based Ascension already has provided care to 1,600 military veterans after launching in March an ad campaign focused on those eligible for the Veterans Choice program. The campaign, which...
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FDA won't approve Sarepta's Duchenne drug by Thursday deadline
The Food and Drug Administration says it won't make a decision on whether or not to approve a drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy developed by Sarepta Therapeutics by the Thursday deadline. The delay...
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This Seattle fundraiser brought in $7.6 million last year
Children's Golf Classic, the annual golf tournament benefitting Seattle Children's hospital, brought in $7.6 million in 2015, making it the largest single benefit event in the Puget Sound region and...
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Centene cuts 40 jobs in reorganization
Centene Corp. has cut 40 positions following a reorganization in its Envolve PeopleCare subsidiary. According to an internal document obtained by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the cuts were made to...
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InCube Labs, a San Antonio bioscience company, has secured a subcontract from the University of Pittsburgh to aid in the development of a therapy to treat patients with spinal cord injuries, according...
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Game on for Medivation: Hostile Sanofi seeks to replace drug maker's board
French drug maker Sanofi said Wednesday that it will replace every member of Medivation Inc.'s board in a move to take over the San Francisco company. The move is the latest in a two-month chess game...
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Why this health care firm opened a Nashville office — and why it almost didn't
Peg Stressman, CEO of Omaha-based StrategicHealthSystems, just did something plenty of other health care company CEOs have done: She opened an office in Franklin. But when I asked what drew...
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Olean General CEO calls Kaleida affiliation proactive and strategic
Hospital leaders in Olean expect a new affiliation with the region’s largest health system will ultimately result in cost savings and better efficiencies. That’s important for any hospital these days,...
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Report: 1 in 3 area hospitals lost money last year
Nearly one in four Pennsylvania hospitals — and one in three in this region – lost money last year, according to a report released Thursday by the Pennsylvania HealthCare Cost Containment Council. The...
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New bar opens its doors on Cherokee - 5 things you don't need to know but...
1. A new bar, called Propaganda, has opened its doors at 2732 Cherokee St., the space previously occupied by Art Bar, which closed earlier this year. The bar is owned by Tatyana Telnikova, who moved to...
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Hospitals seek access to more patients suffering mental-health crises
Colorado hospital officials are asking Gov. John Hickenlooper to sign into law a measure that could increase the number of behavioral-health patients streaming into their emergency rooms in the near...
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5 things to know & why your hospital may put out a tip jar
Good day, Philadelphia area. Fun fact: All you vampire and zombie fans out there, and I know there are lots of you, today is a momentous anniversary. On this date in 1897 Bram Stoker's Dracula was...
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Houston dominates Texas cities for CPRIT awards
The Bayou City and its cancer research institutions lead the way in state funding as Texas' cancer research program reaches its halfway point. The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas has...
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Multnomah's Bullseye-area lead testing indicates no positives
Multnomah County said lead poisoning tests in Southeast Portland have yielded no positive results. The Multnomah County Health Department said Wednesday 192 people were screened for lead poisoning...
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