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(Reuters) – All baby boomers should be tested at least once for the liver-destroying hepatitis C virus, according to proposed guidelines from U.S. health officials released on Friday. The often-undiagnosed virus is transmitted through contaminated… View full post on Yahoo! Health News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration's top health official on Friday took the debate over whether healthcare coverage should include contraceptives to the campus of a Catholic university that has been deeply divided over the adminis… View full post on Yahoo! Health News

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A family is suing a mortuary over a body switch that resulted in a grandmother being buried in another woman’s clothes in a California cemetery instead of an above-ground crypt in Nicaragua. The lawsuit filed Wednesday by the 88-year-old woman’s … View full post on Insurance Journal » News

(HealthDay News) — Tracking your migraines can better prepare you to prevent or treat these often-debilitating headaches. View full post on Yahoo! Health News

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South Dakota has been awarded a $5.9 million federal grant to continue research into the possibility of a state-run health insurance exchange. But Gov. Dennis Daugaard says the state will continue to wait for the outcome of the lawsuit challenging … View full post on Insurance Journal » News

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has not been seen or heard in public since returning a week ago from his latest cancer treatment in Cuba but was well enough to monitor a jail riot in Caracas, an ally said on Friday. The u… View full post on Yahoo! Health News

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The tornado that swept through Joplin, Mo., on May 22, 2011, has generated $2.16 billion in insurance claims payouts to Missouri policyholders, according to an Insurance Information Institute analysis of data from ISO’s Property Claims Service (PCS) and other sources. … View full post on Insurance Journal » News