In Brief More Medicare money needed for rural hospitals
Washington AP report notes a Congress ordered study proposing shifting millions of past and future Medicare payments to mostly rural hospitals, increasing their slices of the Medicare pie at the cost of some urban medical centers. The Department of Health and Human Services forwarded the study to Congress on Friday outlining these changes.
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Doctors use defensive medicine amid malpractice rise
A study finds many physicians avoid high risk patients or adopt defensive medicine to curb lawsuits. Separately, doctors seek a donor heart for an Indiana teenager after two days of external pumping keeps the patient alive.
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Chicago
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Riverside woman carries seven fetuses at high risk center
A Riverside woman, five months pregnant with septuplets, is confined to bed at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange to extend the pregnancy. Doctors and family caution the outcome remains uncertain, with ultrasounds labeling fetuses A through G and one likely a girl and another a boy.
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Australia
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