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Created: 9/29/2006 2:05:00 AM
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Title: Marriage Boosts Parents' Mental Health
Category: Health News
Created: 9/29/2006 2:05:00 AM
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NLM's senior staff: the retirementof Lois Ann Colaianni, ... largest part of a MEDLINE citation) with manual entry for all the other fields. The first phase ...

U.S. employers "are increasingly targeting health benefits as a way to save money," a trend that has left many retirees with "thousands of dollars" in additional health care costs, the Los Angeles Times reports. [click link for full article]

Two newspapers recently published an editorial and an opinion piece on a new policy that will require higher-income Medicare beneficiaries in 2007 for the first time to pay a higher monthly premium for Part B than other beneficiaries. Summaries appear below. [click link for full article]

Florida-based Pediatrix Medical Group, which provides pediatric physicians and nursing services to 32 states, last week agreed to pay $25 million to settle a 2002 lawsuit that claimed the company improperly billed state Medicaid programs, the Baltimore Sun reports. U.S. [click link for full article]

(CP) - Efforts to prevent a flu pandemic from occurring and planning for one should prevention fail must pay particular attention to the needs of the disadvantaged and the poor, a group of international experts said in a statement released Friday.

TORONTO (CP) - A study of patients hospitalized with influenza suggests treatment with an antiviral drug, even if started later than is considered optimal, can substantially increase a person's chance of survival.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering not using the word "recall" to warn patients and doctors about defective pacemakers and defibrillators at the request of a physicians' group struggling to deal with a loss of public confidence in the safety of implantable