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	<title>AAPS News of the Day</title>
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	<description>from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>National “DNA warehouse” bill passes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Passing the House of Representatives on a voice vote, S. 1858 has been sent to President Bush for signature. The Newborn Genetic Screening bill was passed by the Senate last December. The bill violates the U.S. Constitution and the Nuremberg Code, writes Twila Brase, president of the Citizen’s Council on Health Care (CCHC). “The DNA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insurers under investigation for fraudulent reimbursement rates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[managed care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New York Attorney General Andrew Cuoma has issued subpoenas to Aetna, Cigna, UnitedHealth, WellPoint, and other insurers in a broadening investigation of possible fraud in setting insurance reimbursements that cost consumers hundreds of millions of dollars. Insurers charge a higher premium to consumers, promising to cover 80% of reasonable and customary rate for out-of-network services. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French judges investigate vaccine manufacturer for manslaughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[vaccines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In what was called a “thunderclap in the vaccine industry,” French authorities have opened a formal investigation concerning a hepatitis B vaccination campaign by GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Pasteur in the 1990s. It is alleged that the companies failed to fully disclose neurologic side effects. Another investigation opened by Judge Marie-Odile Bertella-Geffroy concerns the death (“manslaughter”) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Registry for egg donors proposed after young woman dies of colon cancer</title>
		<link>http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/0022</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After her daughter died at age 31 of colon carcinoma, Dr. Jennifer Schneider of Tucson wondered whether three cycles of egg donation might have been related. She is asking Congress to create a registry of egg donors. Research on the long-term effects of egg donation are not now possible because many donations are anonymous, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vaccine compensation fund to pay award to autistic girl; broad implications feared</title>
		<link>http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/0021</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[vaccines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although an attorney representing the federal government said that it “has not conceded that vaccines cause autism,” Associated Press headlines read that “officials concede vaccines’ link to illness like autism” (AP 3/6/08). Petitioner Hannah Joling, now 9 years old, received 5 vaccines at once in 2000. According to a document that AP obtained from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economic shocks straight ahead?</title>
		<link>http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/0020</link>
		<comments>http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/0020#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As former Comptroller General David Walker told 60 Minutes, the unfunded liabilities of entitlement programs, especially Medicare, are so huge that even shutting down the Pentagon would not help significantly. He states that leaving this huge debt to the next generation is morally wrong. He does not, however, address the question of who will continue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NHS updates: Patients starve; not allowed to pay for extra care</title>
		<link>http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/0019</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[socialized medicine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recent news from the UK: 
1. Statistics obtained by Conservatives show that the number of patients released from British National Health Service (NHS) hospitals with malnutrition has doubled in the decade since Labour came to power, increasing from 74,431 in 1997 to 139,127. While most of the patients had nutritional deficiencies on admission, the nutritional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patients and doctors reject protocol medicine</title>
		<link>http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/0018</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[alternative medicine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[best practices]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[guidelines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While pressure mounts to get doctors to follow “best practices,” getting patients to follow them will be even more difficult. A 2007 Harris Interactive poll found that 43% of Americans say they are concerned about overly aggressive treatment. And 44% have ignored a doctor’s advice or sought a second opinion because they felt a doctor’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study touches off cholesterol debate</title>
		<link>http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/0017</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Merck and Schering-Plough are running full page ads, as in the Wall Street Journal, in an attempt to control the damage from a study questioning the benefits of ezetimibe (Zetia) or Vytorin (ezetimibe/simvastatin). “All of us at Merck and Schering-Plough proudly stand behind the established efficacy and safety profiles of ZETIA and VYTORIN,” states the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REAL ID, electronic tracking spark civil liberties concerns</title>
		<link>http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/0016</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[real id]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Children are getting their fingerprints scanned every day at school—to make the lunch line move faster. It’s more efficient than debit cards, ID cards, or cash. State Senator Karen Johnson of Arizona is trying to do something about this, as well as other measures that enable intrusive government monitoring of citizens in the name of [...]]]></description>
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