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Skier’s family seeks help for medical bills

As the skiing community continues to mourn Sarah Burke’s death, more than $185,000 had been raised by Friday evening on a fundraising website set up to help her family cover hospital costs.

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New fee coming for medical effectiveness research (AP)

AP – The government will be charging a new fee to health insurance plans next year for research to see which drugs, tests and treatments work best.

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Expert: Doctor used inferior medical device on MJ

Michael Jackson’s doctor took a cheapskate approach to the King of Pop’s care, using a less expensive and inferior medical monitoring device, an expert testified Friday.

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High-end medical option prompts Medicare worries (AP)

Dr. Lewis Weiner speaks with a patient at his office in Providence, R.I., Tuesday, March 15, 2011. Weiner limits his practice to patients who pay an annual fee of $1,500, whether they needs his services or not. Instead of juggling 2,000 or more patients, these doctors can concentrate on a few hundred, stressing prevention and acting as advocates with specialists and hospitals. 'I get to know the individual,' he said. 'I see their color. I see their moods. I pick up changes in their lives, new stressors that I would not have found as easily before. It's been a very positive shift.' (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP – Every year, thousands of people make a deal with their doctor: I’ll pay you a fixed annual fee, whether or not I need your services, and in return you’ll see me the day I call, remember who I am and what ails me, and give me your undivided attention.


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AP IMPACT: Ugly US medical experiments uncovered (AP)

FILE - In this June 25, 1945 picture, army doctors expose patients to malaria-carrying mosquitoes in the malaria ward at Stateville Penitentiary in Crest Hill, Ill. Around the time of World War II, prisoners were enlisted to help the war effort by participating in studies that could help the troops. A series of malaria studies at Stateville Penitentiary in Illinois and two other penitentiaries were designed to test antimalarial drugs that could help soldiers fighting in the Pacific. Shocking as it may seem, government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. (AP Photo/File)AP – Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital.


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Apple CEO Steve Jobs takes medical leave (AP)

FILE - In an Oct. 20, 2010 file photo, Apple CEO Steve Jobs speaks at an Apple event at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. Jobs sent a note Monday, Jan. 17, 2011 to employees saying he's taking a medical leave of absence so he can focus on his health.  He says he will continue as CEO and be involved in major decisions but has asked Tim Cook to be responsible for all day-to-day operations.(AP Photo/Tony Avelar, File)AP – Apple Inc. co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs sent a note Monday to employees saying he’s taking a second medical leave of absence in two years so he can focus on his health.


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Apple’s Steve Jobs takes medical leave of absence

Steve Jobs is taking another leave of absence as Apple CEO due to medical reasons, according to a letter sent to employees on Monday.

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