All posts tagged "health"

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  Senator demands insurers pay alleged multimillion-dollar debt to Pediatric Hospital

  SAN JUAN – Senate Health Committee Chairman Ángel “Chayanne” Martínez ordered insurance companies to pay a multimillion-dollar debt to the University Pediatric Hospital (HOPU by its Spanish acronym) within the next 30 days, stressing medical services are at...

  • Posted March 28, 2017
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  UPR presents cancer study of Puerto Rico’s elderly population

  SAN JUAN – The University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus revealed Monday findings in its first report, “Cancer Prevalence in Puerto Rico’s Senior Citizens,” with the objective of raising awareness and promote education about cancer in people age...

  • Posted March 27, 2017
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  Schumer seizes on Trump team’s offer to work with Dems

  WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s aides opened the door to working with moderate Democrats on health care and other issues while Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer quickly offered to find common ground with Trump for repairing former...

  • Posted March 27, 2017
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  No repeal for ‘Obamacare’ — a humiliating defeat for Trump

  WASHINGTON – In a humiliating failure, President Donald Trump and GOP leaders pulled their bill to repeal “Obamacare” off the House floor Friday when it became clear it would fail badly – after seven years of nonstop...

  • Posted March 24, 2017
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  Permanent Inscription Boards to be used for medicinal cannabis certifications

  SAN JUAN – Health Secretary Rafael Rodríguez Mercado assured on Monday that Puerto Rico’s medicinal cannabis industry hasn’t stopped operating since it began on the island last summer. During his visit to NextGen Pharma‘s installations in Toa Baja–which...

  • Posted March 20, 2017
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  Trump going outside Washington for support on health bill

  Meanwhile, hard-line conservatives and moderate Republicans are at odds

  • Posted March 20, 2017
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  Ryan: more help for older people needed in Republican health bill

  Older people would likely pay higher premiums

  • Posted March 19, 2017
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  AP FACT CHECK: Both sides loose with facts in health debate

  WASHINGTON – The Congressional Budget Office report on a Republican health care bill set off an intense reaction in Washington, and some on both sides of the debate are playing loose with the facts. Republicans are overlooking...

  • Posted March 14, 2017
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  Senate confirms Trump pick to head Medicare and Medicaid

  Indiana health care consultant Seema Verma was approved by a 55-43 vote

  • Posted March 13, 2017
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  Hospitals worry about caring for newly uninsured in GOP plan

  The hospital system is facing enormous uncertainty

  • Posted March 12, 2017