• Obama appears to be nearing choice for HHS Secretary.

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, an early Obama ally with a record of working across party lines, is emerging as the president’s top choice for secretary of health and human services, advisers said Wednesday. Should she be nominated, Ms. Sebelius would bring eight years of experience as her state’s insurance commissioner as well as six years as a governor running a state Medicaid program.

• Say it isn’t so: Big Insurance rigging out-of-network referrals? This has been covered previously by Doctor Pundit.
• A public interest watchdog wants the FDA to scrutinize device makers more closely.
• A new Alzheimer dementia culprit?
• Study: patients fare better with surgery, drugs then with stenting, in cases of myocardial injury — after 12 hours.

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