Middle East Nuclear Arms Race, Can Clinton Still Run, Can Obama Care be Canceled – Video

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Middle East Nuclear Arms Race, Can Clinton Still Run, Can Obama Care be Canceled
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu #39;s speech to Congress can be summed up with this Associated Press headline that reads Israeli leader: Nuclear pact a bad deal. Now I know why...

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What is needed from policymakers, technology developers, and providers to support high-value care – Video

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On March 4, the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform hosted an event to discuss the current state of health IT adoption, its potential to reinforce a quality and value-based payment system,...

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Report from the front lines of health IT transformation: Barriers, challenges, and successes – Video

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Health care maze: Retired teacher confused with insurance changes

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Published: Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 05:19 PM.

Ann Lancaster of Boiling Springs doesnt understand the disagreement between United HealthCare and Carolinas HealthCare System.

But 83-year-old Lancaster, a retired schoolteacher, does know that since she switched to United HealthCare she has paid more up front costs, and if she gets sick and has to go to Carolinas HealthCare System Cleveland, her insurance wouldnt be accepted.

That would bother me if I couldnt get care at Cleveland, Lancaster said.

Helping her navigate the insurance and health care maze is her cousin and power of attorney, Kitty Hoyle.

Cant find a doctor

Since Lancaster fell last fall and spent time in the hospital and a nursing home, Hoyle has tried to find her a primary care doctor who has hospital privileges.

I cant find a doctor, Hoyle said. No doctor will call back, and when they find out what kind of insurance she has, they dont want to take it.

Lancaster is back home now under the care of the nursing home doctor, but Hoyle also worries what would happen if she had to go back to the hospital.

She needs a doctor who has privileges at the hospital who has continuity of care they know me and know her, Hoyle said. It is shameful that this retired teacher cant find a primary care doctor in the county she served for 42 years.

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Health Care Sector Update for 03/06/2015: BLRX,ICEL,AEZS

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Top Health Care Stocks

JNJ -2.38%

PZE -1.40%

MRK -1.90%

ABT -1.90%

AMGN -3.42%

Health care stocks were sharply lower in late trade with the NYSE Health Care Sector Index dropping about 1.7% and shares of health care companies in the S&P 500 down almost 1.9% as a group.

In company news, BioLineRx Ltd. ( BLRX ) retreated Friday after the early-stage biotech company today priced a $25 million public offering of 12.5 million American depository shares at $2 apiece, a nearly 29% discount to Thursday's closing price for the stock.

Each ADS is equal to 10 ordinary BLRX shares. The company plans to use net proceeds to fund clinical trials of its BL-8040 drug candidate to treat cute myeloid leukemia and for it BL-7010 experimental treatment for celiac disease.

BLRX shares were down more than 27% in late afternoon trading at $2.05 apiece, just a penny above their session low. The stock has traded within a 52-week range of $1.20 to $3.28 apiece, rising nearly 11% over the past year prior to today's decline.

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Health Care Sector Update for 03/06/2015: CALA,AVEO,AEZS

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Top Health Care Stocks

JNJ -2.00%

PZE -1.97%

MRK -1.03%

ABT -1.48%

AMGN -2.41%

Health care stocks were sharply lower, with the NYSE Health Care Sector Index dropping about 1.3% and shares of health care companies in the S&P 500 down almost 1.7% as a group.

In company news, Calithera Biosciences ( CALA ) rallied Friday after announcing an exclusive global license agreement with TransTech Pharma, securing exclusive global development and commercialization rights of TransTech's hexokinase II inhibitors.

Hexokinase II is an enzyme that limits the ability of cancer cells to convert glucose into energy, hindering their growth.

Under the terms of the agreement, CALA will pay an unspecified upfront amount to TransTech in addition to future payments and royalties as Hexokinase II reaches pre-determined clinical and commercial milestones.

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Author Jeanne Ryan discusses Charisma and gene therapy

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Home Books Author Jeanne Ryan discusses Charisma and gene therapy

Author Jeanne Ryan talks with Hypable about her book Charisma and whether or not she would take her fictional drug if given the chance.

Charisma follows the story of Aislyn, a painfully shy junior in high school who suffers from social anxiety. Speaking up in class and trying to have fun with her friends at a party are well outside her comfort zone. She finds out about a new underground gene therapy treatment in the form of a drug called Charisma. Aislyns personality completely changes, and suddenly shes exactly the person she wanted to be all along.

But theres one problem. The therapy appears to be contagious and deadly. Worse yet, the doctor who gave her and a select number of other patients the drug suddenly disappears. Read our review.

Tell us 5 random facts about yourself.

Two of my brothers have the same name, kind of by accident. Just after my mom gave birth to her sixth kid in less than seven years, the nurse asked the name of her baby. Thinking the nurse meant the baby at home, my sleep-deprived mom gave her his name, and it ended up on the birth certificate.

I could swear that when I was a kid a certain soup company ran a commercial where the main lyric in its jingle was Constipation got you down? However, to this day, I have never been able to find anyone else who remembers this.

Until more recently than I care to admit, I thought narwhals were fictional. (In my defense, they look totally fake in photos!)

Id love to go to Burning Man one day.

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Author Jeanne Ryan discusses Charisma and gene therapy