• NY state recoups over half a billion dollars in amounts lost to Medicaid fraud and waste.
• MN has its first confirmed influenza case of 2008 – 2009 season, and it’s a susceptible strain to this season’s vaccine.
• Pharma company’s use of medical ghostwriting questioned.
• U.S. blacks trounce whites in color cancer death rates.
• Baltimore Sun OpEd:  states must employ total adoption of the electronic health record in overhauling healthcare delivery.

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