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	<dc:creator>Health News Florida</dc:creator> 
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	<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:00:14 GMT</pubDate> 
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		<title>Mission: Defeat Alzheimer&#8217;s</title> 
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	An Alzheimer&#39;s Disease research center in Tampa will be part of a major clinical trial on the disease, part of a national initiative announced Tuesday. Nearly half a million Floridians have&nbsp;been diagnosed.

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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:08 GMT</pubDate> 
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		<title>Medical records show injuries: ABC</title> 
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	George Zimmerman&#39;s medical records show he had&nbsp;a broken nose, black eyes and other injuries the night he shot Trayvon Martin, the network reports. Martin&#39;s autopsy showed skinned knuckles,&nbsp;a TV station reports.

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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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		<title>Woman kills her 4 children, self</title> 
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	Authorities say they&nbsp;don&rsquo;t know why a Brevard&nbsp;woman fatally shot her four children before killing herself. Police and DCF visited the home last month amid reports of violence and neglect.

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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 13:36 GMT</pubDate> 
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		<title>Miami health care costliest in US</title> 
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	The cost of health care for a typical family in 2012 topped&nbsp;$20,000 this year for the first time nationally; the priciest city was metro Miami, at nearly $25,000.&nbsp;In other news,&nbsp;The Miami Herald reports that four area hospitals want&nbsp;to start organ-transplant programs.

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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 13:20 GMT</pubDate> 
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		<title>Cardinal settles for 2&#45;yr FL suspension</title> 
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	Cardinal Health&#39;s settlement of federal&nbsp;charges&nbsp;bars its Lakeland distribution center from handling controlled drugs for two years.
	
	In other business news:
	--Sacred Heart, partner take over Bay Medical.
	--Solantic rebranding, building, hiring.&nbsp;
	--Hospital gets $6M settlement from law firm.
	--FL Blue hiring 200 in Jacksonville.
	&nbsp;

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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 01:02 GMT</pubDate> 
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		<title>OSHA investigating mystery package</title> 
		<link>http://www.theledger.com/article/20120515/NEWS/120519552/1374?Title=OSHA&#45;Investigating&#45;Postal&#45;Worker&#45;s&#45;Illness&#45;After&#45;Handling&#45;Package&#45;From&#45;Yemen</link> 
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	The Occupational Health and Safety Administration is investigating a report that an employee at the Orlando Postal Service sorting center became ill after handling a mysterious oozing package from Yemen.

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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 12:56 GMT</pubDate> 
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		<title>Farm boss kept laborers enslaved, lawsuit claims</title> 
		<link>http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/florida&#45;farm&#45;workers&#45;tell&#45;how&#45;drugs&#45;debt&#45;bind&#45;them&#45;in&#45;modern&#45;slavery/1229662</link> 
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	Homeless men say they sign up for jobs on farms, but charges for the minimal housing and food add up to put them in debt, making them&nbsp;indentured servants.

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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 12:55 GMT</pubDate> 
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		<title>Mayo tech was source of Hepatitis C</title> 
		<link>http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2012&#45;05&#45;11/story/former&#45;mayo&#45;clinic&#45;employee&#45;pleads&#45;guilty&#45;spreading&#45;hepatitis</link> 
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	Steven Beumel, a former radiology tech in Jacksonville, admits he injected&nbsp;patients&#39; Fentanyl into his own veins and then&nbsp;used the dirty syringes to inject patients with saline. It took epidemiologists three years to track down the source of the fatal outbreak.
	
	In other news:
	--Small firms leaving $$ on table.
	--UM cuts could hurt&nbsp;research.&nbsp;

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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 12:30 GMT</pubDate> 
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		<title>Should &#8216;Stand Your Ground&#8217; apply in this case?</title> 
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	A&nbsp;mother of three&nbsp;who fired a warning shot at her&nbsp;abusive husband faces 20 years in prison even though no one was hurt. The judge&nbsp;says&nbsp;the &ldquo;Stand Your Ground&rdquo; law doesn&#39;t apply and he has no choice.

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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:18 GMT</pubDate> 
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		<title>Confessions of a pill mill doctor</title> 
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	Dr.&nbsp;Sanjeev Grover had prestige -- a&nbsp;fellowship, then a faculty practice in oncology -- until he moved to Florida.&nbsp;He says the easy money of pill mills lured him when his own practice failed.

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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:06 GMT</pubDate> 
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		<title>Genes spell death but mom chooses hope</title> 
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	Many doctors told Addie Sullivan that Trisomy 18 was &quot;incompatible with life.&quot; But she&nbsp;refused to end her pregnancy, and treasures&nbsp;every day she has with baby Riley. &nbsp;

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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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		<title>Hospital tries to evict quadriplegic</title> 
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	Sarasota Memorial Hospital says it&rsquo;s no place for a young man&nbsp;to live, but&nbsp;300 less-acute care facilities in Florida have refused to take him in.

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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:45 GMT</pubDate> 
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		<title>DEA vs. Cardinal: behind the scenes</title> 
		<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012&#45;05&#45;10/cardinal&#45;health&#45;set&#45;for&#45;dea&#45;showdown&#45;over&#45;pain&#45;pill&#45;sales.html</link> 
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	Cardinal Health will argue at a hearing this month that it wasn&#39;t at fault in the oversupply of oxycodone. But it got into trouble for the same thing in 2007.

	In other news Friday:
	--Funds cut for people with disabilities.
	--Woman sent to jail in cancer scam.
	--Planned Parenthood opens surgical service.
	--Ex-Bucs player leads head-injury suit against NFL.

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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:13 GMT</pubDate> 
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		<title>Medicaid doctors&#8217; pay could soar</title> 
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	The pay for primary-care doctors who&nbsp;treat Medicaid patients will be raised to equal Medicare rates on Jan. 1, if the Affordable Care Act survives. The pay raise would be huge in Florida -- almost double.

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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 14:41 GMT</pubDate> 
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		<title>How efficient are FL hospitals? Not very</title> 
		<link>http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2012/May/09/Medicare&#45;Hospitals&#45;Costly&#45;Patients.aspx</link> 
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	An analysis of Medicare spending per-patient shows large variations among hospitals in per-patient spending.&nbsp; In Florida, most spent&nbsp;more than&nbsp;the national average.
	
	 In other news Thursday:
	--70% of FL small firms qualify for tax credit.
	--Big ad buy&nbsp;targets Dems on health law.&nbsp;
	--FL law lax on tanning beds.

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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 14:15 GMT</pubDate> 
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		<title>FL seeks change to &#8216;Medically Needy&#8217;</title> 
		<link>http://www.news&#45;press.com/article/20120508/NEWS01/120508019/1075/State&#45;seeks&#45;changes&#45;Medically&#45;Needy&#45;program?odyssey=nav%7Chead</link> 
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	The state has asked federal officials to allow changes in the Medically Needy program, which helps families&nbsp;impoverished by huge medical bills.&nbsp;Changes include monthly premiums and managed care.

	In other news Wednesday:
	--UM med school to lay off up to 800.
	--Agency memo&nbsp;tries to fix PIP flaw.

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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 08:06 GMT</pubDate> 
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		<title>State officials hate law, but plan for it</title> 
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	A state-sponsored $700,000 study for a new Medicaid IT platform, which has extremely tight timelines and rules, will include the federal health exchange -- just in case.

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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 13:05 GMT</pubDate> 
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		<title>Nurses&#8217; union reaches pact with 10 hospitals</title> 
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	A labor agreement that covers 3,100 nurses at 10 HCA hospitals in Florida includes patient-safety issues as well as an increase in pay for RNs.

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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 12:43 GMT</pubDate> 
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		<title>1 in 4 FL adults say medical needs unmet</title> 
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	Millions of working-age&nbsp;adults say they cannot afford medical care, a new report shows, and in Florida, the problem is especially acute.

	In other news Tuesday:
	--Jackson quality is good, stats show.
	--Miami-Dade Health Dept. wins Sterling.
	--Bullying may have caused boy&#39;s fatal jump.
	--City loans to surgery center raise&nbsp;questions.&nbsp;
	&nbsp;

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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 12:34 GMT</pubDate> 
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		<title>Doctor &#8216;visit&#8217; via Skype: a trend?</title> 
		<link>http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/story/2012&#45;04&#45;27/virtual&#45;doctors&#45;telemedicine/54791506/1</link> 
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	Some insurers and patients welcome the chance to get minor ills taken care of by a virtual doctor visit. Here&#39;s a video of a Miami Beach internist who offers the service.

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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 14:06 GMT</pubDate> 
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		<title>Dying by degrees, but embracing life</title> 
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	Florida writer Susan Spencer-Wendel, who&nbsp;has ALS, writes about her family&#39;s decision to travel and relish what&#39;s left of her life, rather than waste it on a hopeless search for a cure.

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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 14:05 GMT</pubDate> 
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		<title>&#8216;Fancy&#45;hospital&#8217; craze questioned</title> 
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	Low interest rates and deregulation have led to a hospital building and renovation boom, a competition to see whose facility can look most like a hotel. But some say health-care dollars could be spent more wisely on primary care.

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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 14:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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		<title>Campaigns distort facts on Medicare</title> 
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	Political ads from both parties misconstrue the changes that are coming for Medicare. But will voters be savvy enough to detect that?

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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 13:38 GMT</pubDate> 
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		<title>Age for swim lessons may be revised</title> 
		<link>http://www.gainesville.com/article/20120504/ARTICLES/120509756</link> 
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	After research suggested earlier swim lessons benefit infants, the American Academy of Pediatrics is revisiting its position on waiting until the child reaches age 4.

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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 12:38 GMT</pubDate> 
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		<title>Suit against health law cast as &#8216;state&#8217;s rights&#8217;</title> 
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	Florida&#39;s suit against&nbsp;the Affordable Care Act&nbsp;accuses the federal&nbsp;government of encroaching on states&#39; rights -- the same slogan that led to the Civil War. That&nbsp;was really about slavery; some say this one is really about politics.

	In other news:
	--Medicare fraud suspect deemed flight risk.
	--Grieving family spreads word about sepsis.

	
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 12:30 GMT</pubDate> 
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