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| US senior drug benefit gets 'mixed picture' review WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. program to help elderly people pay for medicines has made them less likely to trim spending on things like food and housing to buy drugs, but the sickest still skip medications due to cost. |
| U.S. Medicare proposes nursing home pay cuts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government's Medicare program Thursday proposed payment cuts to reimburse nursing homes that treat more than 1 million of the nation's elderly. |
| Heart care differs during hospital "off-hours" NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Heart attack patients who arrive at the hospital at night or on weekends or holidays undergo fewer overall procedures to open clogged arteries and have significantly longer wait times for these procedures than their counterparts who arrive during the day, new study findings indicate. |
| Wal-Mart expanding its low-priced drug program NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc expanded its low-priced drug program, saying on Monday that it is now offering more than 1,000 over-the-counter items for $4 or less and selling some 90-day generic prescriptions for $10. |
| Program helps keep teens away from cigarettes NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A smoking prevention and cessation intervention involving pediatricians and older peer counselors has proven effective in helping adolescent smokers to quit and preventing nonsmokers from taking up the deadly habit. |
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