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CORRECTED - CORRECTED-(Nov 17)-ResVerlogix cholesterol drug fails mid-stage Reuters Nov 17 (Reuters) - ResVerlogix's (RVX.TO) experimental drug failed to achieve its main goal of increasing production of protein associated with good cholesterol and clear plaque from arteries, sending its shares down as much as 45 percent. ... See all stories on this topic »

Great American Smokeout? Not at These Airports (PICTURES) CBS News (CBS) Today is the 35th annual Great American Smokeout, meant to encourage smokers to kick the habit for 24 hours as a prelude to quitting completely. But even if cigarettes are out with smokers looking to quit, smoking is very much in at some of the ... See all stories on this topic » CBS News

End-of-Life Care is Often Futile, Costly HealthLeaders Media Once again, the folks at the Dartmouth Atlas Project have pointed to an elephant in the room. There the beast sits—the enormous amount of far too aggressive, painful, costly and often futile care, which too many doctors and hospitals provide during a ... See all stories on this topic »

Medicare Panel Gives Tentative Nod to Prostate CA Drug MedPage Today By Joyce Frieden, News Editor, MedPage Today BALTIMORE -- A Medicare advisory panel agreed Wednesday that there is good evidence that sipuleucel-T (Provenge) significantly improves survival in patients with minimally symptomatic metastatic ... See all stories on this topic »

Americans More Likely to Skip Health Care for Cost, Survey Says Bloomberg By Pat Wechsler - Thu Nov 18 16:51:24 GMT 2010 Americans are more likely to go without health care because of cost and report the most disputes with insurance companies compared with consumers surveyed in 11 industrialized nations such as Germany and ... See all stories on this topic »

Humana Sees Lower 2011 EPS, Cites Near-Term Pressures Wall Street Journal By Dinah Wisenberg Brin Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES Humana Inc. (HUM) projected a decline in earnings for next year, citing such "near-term challenges" as a return to historically higher rates of medical-cost growth, Medicare-program changes and a charge ... See all stories on this topic »

Cardinal Health To Pay $1.3B For Distributor Kinray Wall Street Journal By Dinah Wisenberg Brin Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES Drug wholesaler Cardinal Health Corp. (CAH) said it will buy privately held pharmaceutical distributor Kinray Inc. for $1.3 billion, a deal that will boost the company's presence in smaller pharmacies in ... See all stories on this topic »

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