From GoozNews via The Health Care Blog:
…Last week, I learned that the [children's health insurance] bill contains another unheralded earmark, also unrelated to children’s health. This one, too, funnels hundreds of millions of dollars to special interests … given the Orwellian name “Quality Incentive Payments in the End Stage Renal Disease Program,” [it] will subject [...]

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From USA Today:
In a public health advisory, the FDA warned that high doses of Procrit, Aranesp and Epogen may increase the risk of blood clots, strokes, heart attacks and deaths in patients with chronic kidney failure.
Recent studies suggest that the drugs, which are commonly prescribed to cancer patients receiving chemotherapy, may actually make tumors grow [...]

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