A total of 118 HMOs will either leave Medicare or reduce their presence in the program next year, forcing 934,000 Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in the health plans to look for alternative arrangements, the Health Care Financing Administration said Monday. The program will eventually expand across the country, then include specialists. Pacemakers and implanted heart defibrillators have improved survival rates for heart patients for 50 years. Asked to describe how a tiny turbine stitched into her heart's left ventricle had changed her life, Lois Spiller broke down and wept. The interaction between St. John's wort and digoxin is complex, with potentially serious consequences.
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Now a federal appeals judge would hear them out. A team, led by Professor Aynsley-Green of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and Professor David Hall of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, argue that the health of children and young people is vital for the future success of our society. In a breakthrough that could affect the more than 50 million Americans who suffer from allergies and asthma, researchers at Northwestern University and Harvard Medical School have identified the structure of the interaction complex of two molecules that are central to the allergic response in humans. Copyright 1999 PHCentral, Inc.