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By OLGA PIERCE UPI Health Business Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March 22 (UPI) — Native American healthcare is in a shambles and desperately needs more funding, advocates and lawmakers said Thursday at a Senate Finance Committee hearing.
“America is great in riches and power,” said committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., “but our healthcare promises to America's original inhabitants […]

NEW YORK, March 22 (UPI) — In advance of World Tuberculosis Day, a United Nations special envoy called for more medical research to eliminate the disease.
“It is absolutely essential that more knowledge about tuberculosis is given out to the public,” said former Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio, the secretary-general's special envoy to stop tuberculosis.
Though […]

PHILADELPHIA, March 22 (UPI) — Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline Thursday announced the U.S. launch of once-daily Coreg to treat three key cardiovascular conditions.
The extended-release beta-blocker has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat high blood pressure, a heart attack that has reduced how well the heart pumps blood, and mild-to-severe heart failure, […]

WASHINGTON, March 22 (UPI) — A severe flu outbreak could put a huge dent the U.S. economy, according to a new study.
The U.S. gross domestic product could drop by nearly 6 percent, a $683 billion loss, says a report by the Trust for America's Health, a non-profit group that focuses on disease prevention.
“The […]

WASHINGTON, March 22 (UPI) — A U.S. epidemiologic study released this week suggests men who use statin drugs may cut in half the risk of advanced prostate cancer.
The study — published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute — also showed that statins appear to cut in half the risk of metastatic or […]