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Budget cuts limit cancer treatment options
Cancer clinics across southwest Ohio are struggling to provide drug therapies for many of their patients as a result of Medicare cuts in reimbursements for cancer drugs included in the government’s spending cuts known as sequestration. The 2 percent cut in drug reimbursements not only applies to the average cost ...
Faith community nurses fill void
In a society where health concerns are often relegated to a too-busy doctor who doesn’t have time for questions, faith community nurses can play a vital role.Formerly known as parish nurses, they’re usually employed by churches. But they can work in private or community health settings, too. Newport Aquarium in ...
Billions at stake over Medicare drug prices
Congress is looking to save money but has avoided a route that its own budget office says could save $137.4 billion by 2022. It would mean defying an industry, however, that spends billions lobbying Congress and federal agencies. Critics say the power of the pharmaceutical industry contributes to lawmakers’ unwillingness ...
Sinclair ballplayer donates kidney to his dad
Most of the Sinclair baseball players already were gathered in the campus fieldhouse last Sunday evening for their weekly, preseason video session with a sports psychologist.That’s when the best lesson of the night came walking slowly down the stairs in a gray sweatshirt, pants that weren’t too tight around the ...
Health insurers in Ohio seek higher premiums
Health insurance premiums are rising this year for many Ohioans, and some will see larger double-digit percent increases than they’ve seen before, according to rate requests filed by health insurers. The rate hikes come ahead of implementation in 2014 of key provisions of the federal health care law, which industry ...
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