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Elizabeth Cooney is a health reporter for the Worcester Telegram &
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« 'Brain-eating amoeba' unlikely here, experts say | Main | UMass participating in long-term study of child health » Thursday, October 4, 2007Today's Globe: children's health bill veto, surgeon in VA probe, virtual colonoscopy, drug-coated stents
President Bush yesterday vetoed a bill to add $35 billion to a program providing health insurance coverage to children from lower-income families, portraying the State Children's Health Insurance Program as a costly entitlement program that has increasingly come to benefit middle-class families. A surgeon with a history of malpractice complaints in Massachusetts was involved in "aggressive, complex surgeries" at a Veterans Affairs medical center in southern Illinois that went beyond what that site could handle, resulting in a spike in deaths there, US Senator Richard Durbin said yesterday. Having an X-ray to look for signs of colon cancer may soon be an option for those who dread the traditional scope exam. Patients given drug-coated stents to prop open clogged heart arteries were less likely to die or need repeat procedures than those with older, bare-metal devices, according to a study that may help revive sales of the newer models. Posted by Elizabeth Cooney at 06:55 AM
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