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Medicare Underestimated Improper Payments: Report
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Medicare officials had undervalued the amount of improper payments made for medical equipment in 2006 because it failed to review sufficient medical documents, according to a government report. Reuters Health Information
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Economic Consequences of Early Breast Cancer Treatment Often Severe
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With absence from work averaging 7.5 months among women treated for early breast cancer, lost wages are often the most important financial cost of the disease, according to a Canadian study reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute for March 5. Reuters Health Information
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CellCept Labeling Changes Reflect PML Risk
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Healthcare providers should include progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in the differential diagnosis of immunosuppressed patients presenting with focal neurologic symptoms. Medscape Medical News
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