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First Edition: October 28, 2013

Today's headlines include coverage of the health law's federal online insurance marketplace -- healthcare.gov -- and its continuing challenges, troubles and the plans to get it fixed.

28 Oct 2013

First Edition: October 25, 2013

Today's headlines include reports and analyses of yesterday's Capitol Hill hearing, which featured website contractors talking about the troubled rollout of healthcare.gov.

25 Oct 2013

New strategy could lead researchers to rapidly detect nutritional deficiencies

Johns Hopkins researchers have demonstrated that levels of certain proteins in the bloodstream may be used to estimate levels of essential vitamins and minerals without directly testing for each nutritional factor.

25 Oct 2013

Adcare Health Systems prices underwritten public offering of Series A Preferred Stock

AdCare Health Systems, Inc. the "Company") announced today that it has priced a "best efforts" underwritten public offering of its 10.875% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (the "Series A Preferred Stock") at a public offering price of $25.00 per share.

24 Oct 2013

Viewpoints: 'Elementary errors' in insurance exchange; problems could lead insurance pool imbalance; recalcitrant govs could have made Obamacare launch better

Clearly, the government picked the wrong people to manage this project and it was a terrible decision to fragment it among so many contractors. Anyone who's ever been involved in creating a new computer application knows that you don't just assemble the thing and then see if it works. You're supposed to test the components, obsessively, along the way (Andrew Rosenthal, 10/22).

24 Oct 2013

Patient assistance programs help breast cancer patients to learn more about adjuvant therapy

Patient assistance programs can help breast cancer patients meet a variety of needs that can interfere with getting recommended adjuvant therapies such as radiation, chemotherapy, and hormonal treatments, according to a study published recently in the online edition of the Journal of Oncology Practice.

24 Oct 2013

Vows to fix insurance website, but no details offered

The Obama administration has been tight-lipped about the cause of the website problems, who has signed on to fix them and what their timetable might be. News outlets report on ideas advanced by technology experts and explore the practical and political ramifications of delayed enrollment.

23 Oct 2013

Judge expected to rule on federal exchange subsidies today

A District of Columbia federal judge says he'll rule Tuesday on a lawsuit over whether Americans enrolling in federally run exchanges as part of the health care law can collect insurance subsidies after he directed pointed questions to the Obama administration in a three-hour hearing Monday.

23 Oct 2013

First Edition: October 22, 2013

Today's headlines include reports about the Obama administration's plans to address the problems with healthcare.gov.

22 Oct 2013

President says website problems are 'unacceptable"; urges insurance shoppers to keep trying

President Obama said Monday that problems with the new health care website are unacceptable, but argued that the law overall will benefit millions of Americans. While Healthcare.gov "hasn't worked as as smooth as it was supposed to have worked," Obama said in a White House speech that thousands of once-uninsured Americans have signed up for coverage.

22 Oct 2013

'Tech Surge' mounted to fix healthcare.gov

The Obama administration promised Sunday to enlist experts both inside and outside the government to solve the problems that have crippled healthcare.gov and caused consumers frustration as they attempt to shop for coverage. But some federal contractors worry the system may be weeks away from operating smoothly.

22 Oct 2013

GOP leaders want answers to questions about website difficulties

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is among the people some congressional Republicans want to testify about what some have termed the health exchanges' "failure to launch."

22 Oct 2013

First Edition: October 21, 2013

Today's headlines include the latest reports about how the Obama administration plans to make the necessary fixes in the health law's online insurance marketplace.

21 Oct 2013

AP: Obama administration says almost 500,000 have applied for health insurance

Administration officials say about 476,000 health insurance applications have been filed through federal and state exchanges, the most detailed measure yet of the problem-plagued rollout of President Barack Obama's signature legislation.

21 Oct 2013

Medicaid 'coverage gap' causing anxiety in non-expansion states, especially in the south

In states that decide not to expand Medicaid under the health law, more than 5 million people may be left without coverage. Oregon's expansion has already lowered the number of people there without coverage. Exchange issues are also examined in Maryland, Florida, Ohio and Alabama.

19 Oct 2013

Health law is back in the hot seat

Now that lawmakers have an extension on pressing budget issues, they are refocusing attention on the health law's "rocky rollout." For instance, GOP leaders are pressing administration officials for answers about what's gone wrong with the federal online health insurance marketplace.

19 Oct 2013

Advaxis announces full exercise of over-allotment option granted to underwriters

Advaxis, Inc., a leader in developing the next generation of immunotherapies for cancer and infectious diseases, today announced the full exercise of the over-allotment option granted to the underwriters to purchase an additional 862,500 shares of its common stock and warrants to purchase an additional 431,250 shares (15% of the shares and warrants sold in this offering), at a public offering price of $4.00 per share and $0.001 per warrant, respectively, in connection with its previously announced underwritten public offering of 5,750,000 shares of common stock, and warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 2,875,000 shares of common stock, bringing the total gross proceeds from the offering to approximately $26,500,000, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses payable by Advaxis, Inc.

19 Oct 2013

State exchanges report sign-up successes

Although Healthcare.gov may be barely limping along, some state health insurance exchanges are completing applications and signing up thousands. News outlets also offer other developments related to the marketplaces in Kentucky, Connecticut, Oregon, California, Minnesota, Georgia and Maryland.

19 Oct 2013

Eye Am Empowered: A social media support network for women experiencing life challenges

Facebook, move over. There's a new social media network in town, and it's called Eye Am Empowered. This life-changing social media support network is an innovative way for women to share, inspire, and empower each other. EyeAmEmpowered.com is the brainchild of Chrislie Formulations, a beauty company created by women, for women.

18 Oct 2013

First Edition: October 18, 2013

Today's headlines include stories about how Medicare might fit into the next round of budget talks.

18 Oct 2013

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First Edition: October 25, 2013

New strategy could lead researchers to rapidly detect nutritional deficiencies

Adcare Health Systems prices underwritten public offering of Series A Preferred Stock

Viewpoints: 'Elementary errors' in insurance exchange; problems could lead insurance pool imbalance; recalcitrant govs could have made Obamacare launch better

Patient assistance programs help breast cancer patients to learn more about adjuvant therapy

Vows to fix insurance website, but no details offered

Judge expected to rule on federal exchange subsidies today

First Edition: October 22, 2013

President says website problems are 'unacceptable"; urges insurance shoppers to keep trying

'Tech Surge' mounted to fix healthcare.gov

GOP leaders want answers to questions about website difficulties

First Edition: October 21, 2013

AP: Obama administration says almost 500,000 have applied for health insurance

Medicaid 'coverage gap' causing anxiety in non-expansion states, especially in the south

Health law is back in the hot seat

Advaxis announces full exercise of over-allotment option granted to underwriters

State exchanges report sign-up successes

Eye Am Empowered: A social media support network for women experiencing life challenges

First Edition: October 18, 2013

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