Dallas, TX-based Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS) has renewed a contract with its long-standing client, AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies, considered the largest Medicaid managed care plans organization, headquartered at Philadelphia, PA, for three years and valued at $6 million.
A future Conservative government would find it difficult to avoid raising income tax for highestearners to 45 per cent shadow chancellor George Osborne has admitted.
Couples applying for IVF are to be warned for the first time that their children face a greater risk of being born with birth defects after new research.
Prince Charles' Duchy Originals brand has been ordered to remove claims about the effectiveness of its herbal remedies from its website after regulators ruled they were "misleading".
HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 20 (HealthDay News) -- More than 75 percent of candidates for fire and ambulance services in Massachusetts are either overweight or obese, a situation that has major consequences for public health and safety, researchers say.
Reuters - Just weeks after prosecutors accused Forest Laboratories Inc of illegally marketing its anti-depressants Celexa and Lexapro to children and paying pediatricians kickbacks, U.S. health regulators have approved Lexapro for depression in kids.
Reuters - Family planning clinics should consider offering same-day intrauterine device (IUD) insertion to women seeking emergency contraception and walk-in pregnancy testing, according to a new report. Doing this, the findings suggest, will increase interest in and use of IUDs for this purpose.
HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 20 (HealthDay News) -- A screening regimen that combines ultrasound and a blood test to detect CA125, a marker for ovarian cancer, fails to discover the cancer in its early stages and often results in unnecessary surgery, a new study shows.
HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 20 (HealthDay News) -- A major international study pinpoints which people with major heart artery blockages would be better off having bypass surgery than artery-opening angioplasty.
AP - The mortgage meltdown exposed the weakness of self-regulation in financial markets. Now the salmonella outbreak is doing the same for the food industry.
Reuters - U.S. researchers have found a gene responsible for turning a plate of pasta into fat, offering new clues about how the body metabolizes carbohydrates and how they contribute to obesity.
