Price-comparison services help cut medical costs 
San Francisco Chronicle
That kind of disparity, typical across the country, combined with escalating medical spending and the increasing amount of data available online, has prompted several startups to get into the business of helping companies and their employees save ...

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Pioneering Healthcare Team Helps Generations Of El Pasoan Families With ... 
Sacramento Bee
Their clinical and educational efforts will continue when their practice joins the endocrine section of the Texas Tech University Health Science Center, Paul Foster School of Medicine, in El Paso on June 1. Today, Southwest Endocrine Consultants is a ...

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DaVita to buy HealthCare Partners in $4.42B deal 
Sacramento Bee
AP DENVER -- Kidney dialysis services provider DaVita says it will buy the doctor network operator HealthCare Partners in a cash-stock deal valued at $4.42 billion. Denver-based DaVita says it will pay about $3.66 billion in cash and $758 million in ...

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Hospital Marketing Report Explores Importance of Branding 
PR Web (press release)
In today's highly competitive healthcare environment, hospitals and physicians practices strive for every advantage to move their organization above the rest. Many invest in new facilities, expanded services and high-priced advertising campaigns, ...

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Business briefs 
The Daily Advertiser
The team received a total of five awards in the 29th annual Healthcare Advertising Awards and the 2012 Aster Awards. The Healthcare Advertising Awards, sponsored by Healthcare Marketing Report, are the industry's largest advertising awards competition.

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Human Circuit Chosen as Media Integrator for Ohio's Riverside Methodist Hospital 
Sacramento Bee
By Human Circuit GAITHERSBURG, Md., May 21, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Human Circuit announced their collaboration with The Center for Medical Education and Innovation? (CME+I) at Riverside Methodist Hospital. Human Circuit is proud to have been chosen ...

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Romney Super PAC raises less, still tops Democrats 
Reuters
The pro-Obama group, Priorities USA Action, raised $1.6 million last month and had $4.7 million cash on hand - most of which has since been spent on an ad blitz against Romney's private equity past, disclosure forms showed. In March, Restore Our Future ...
President Obama rakes in more campaign donations than Mitt Romney in April FEC ... CBS News
Bob Schieffer Tells Grads Politics Are 'Broken,' Journalism Is Fun Huffington Post
Romney super PAC fundraising slid in April Politico
Washington Post 
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Bucks & Montgomery County business achievers, May 21 
phillyBurbs.com
David Zaritsky of Newtown has been named president of Roska Healthcare Advertising in Montgomeryville. Zaritsky formerly was managing director of Healthcare Regional Marketing. His responsibilities at Roska include strategic planning and development, ...

 

How Zuckerberg's wedding reveals Facebook's problem 
CNET
Thankfully, the heart attack ad had gone. It was replaced by the headline: "Constipated for months." I know I've made a few jokes about Facebook in my time here, but this was getting nasty. However, the copy insisted: "It's a serious medical condition.

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Touro University PA Leader Helps Thousands Of Homeless And Abused Women Lead ... 
Sacramento Bee
By American Academy of Physician Assistants ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Three years ago, Vicki Chan-Padgett, PA-C, of Las Vegas, Nev., stumbled upon a troubling reality within the city's healthcare sector.

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