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May Issue 3 2013

Huge drug cost disparities seen in health overhaul

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cancer patients could face high costs for medications under President Barack Obama’s health care law, industry analysts and advocates warn.

Is Walmart serious about transforming health care? May Issue 3 2013

Is Walmart serious about transforming health care?

“Why is Walmart speaking at a health care summit?” the company’s vice president for health and wellness, Marcus Osborne, rhetorically offered up at a conference back in January.

Proposed housing facility at ANMC will cut Medicaid costs May Issue 3 2013

Proposed housing facility at ANMC will cut Medicaid costs

Anchorage could see another major construction project in the near future if the Gov. Sean Parnell approves a plan to add a residential housing facility at the Alaska Native Medical Center.

Heart clinic uses technology, fundraising to help patients April Issue 3 2013

Heart clinic uses technology, fundraising to help patients

Armed with some of the best equipment on the market, the folks at the Alaska Heart Institute in Anchorage truly take their jobs to heart.

Pentagon struggles with health care costs April Issue 3 2013

Pentagon struggles with health care costs

WASHINGTON (AP) — The loud, insistent calls in Washington to rein in the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare ignore a major and expensive entitlement program — the military’s health care system.

April Issue 3 2013

Thermo Fisher to buy Life Technologies for $13.6B

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. plans to pay about $13.6 billion for Life Technologies Corp. in a deal that will position the scientific instrument maker to benefit from the expected growth of personalized medicine, which uses genetic analysis to tailor treatments to patients.

Bulletin 04/07/13 April Issue 1 2013

Bulletin 04/07/13

March Issue 4 2013

Senate Dems vote to repeal part of health care law

It isn't every day that more than half the Democrats in the Senate vote to repeal part of President Barack Obama's health care law.

March Issue 3 2013

State puts routine TB screening on hold

In the 1940s and 1950s, medical ships cruised the waters of southwest Alaska, trying to end an epidemic of tuberculosis that infected as many of 90 percent of the regions population.

March Issue 3 2013

State to require pre-approval for Medicaid radiology services

The state Department of Health and Social Services will require pre-approvals for non-hospital radiology procedures beginning in April for the state-managed Medicaid program.

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