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http://www.healasthma.com past six monthsthe past twelve months Search Hint: Connecting terms with OR broadens your search to give more results …more on search operators – . USA TODAY (Arlington, VA) – New drug reimbursement rule would hurt small and rural pharmacies WASHINGTON – The nation’s , independent pharmacies are having a hard time swallowing a federal proposal that would slash their reimbursements for providing generic prescription drugs to people on Medicaid. The drug stores, mostly located in small towns and inner cities, say the plan by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, could cause them to stop serving Medicaid patients or go out of business. The agency’s new drug reimbursement… . FOX – KJTV (Lubbock, TX) – Nine – : : TIME START: : : Cingular, America’s leading wireless provider…Has been raising the bar.Now by building a company where tv, broadband…Home phone and wireless all work together…For the way you live…At&t is raising it even higher.Cingular is now the new at&t.Your world.Delivered.Now get the broadband razr for only . .It.That nifty little device that opens clogged airways is about… Teva Partners with Asthma Foundation and NBA to Go Pro for Asthma Education, Prevention and Treatment Contest Winner to Attend NBA Draft Teva Pharmaceuticals North America Denise Bradley, – - denise.bradley@tevausa.com Teva Specialty Pharmaceuticals – USA is partnering with the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) on a public education campaign asking the more than million asthma sufferers – Are You Ready To Go Pro?AAFA is the leading national nonprofit patient advocacy organization for people with asthma and… WVIR (Charlottesville, VA) – Dateline at p – : : TIME START: : : Environment.Similar measures to discourage or ban plastic bags have been enacted in at least eight countries.: -: ) ‘home goods retailer ikea recently started charging five cents for plastic bags hoping to discourage customers from using them.’ and…In a bid to gain support for the new ordinance…Lawmakers in san francisco handed out free canvas bags to some shoppers.’I think this is a great idea.’but, the… Outlaw’s spin on asthma: Don’t let it control your life SUMMARY: The forward, who has had the disease since second grade, tells kids to have fun, enjoy life TUALATIN –A bad start to Saturday had a happy ending for Travis Outlaw.The Trail Blazers forward re-sprained his right ankle during Saturday’s practice, putting a damper on what was becoming a solid comeback from the last sprain.But by the end of the day, Outlaw left the Blazers’ practice facility more upbeat after he held a clinic for children who are… Adult Drugs for Sick Kids, Rx for Kids: Adult Drugs Nearly four out five children in U.S. hospitals receive drugs, including morphine, that have been not been tested and approved for pediatric use, according to a study that reviewed over cases in hospitals. Study leader Dr. Samir S. Shah, a pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, says that over the past five years, the prescribing of so-called “off-label” adult drugs for children has been growing…. . Winter villains flu, RSV return for another season of harming kids It’s that time of year again � viruses are attacking our children. Every week for the last few weeks, Stephen Young, director of the microbiology lab that serves both the University of New Mexico Hospital and Presbyterian Hospital, has reported eight to positive tests for influenza. There are undoubtedly many more cases than that, since we don’t often do the tests, knowing there’s not much we can do about the disease.The same unfortunately… CLEARING VALLEY AIR ACTIVIST’S LATEST AIM From the pages of Michelle Madoff’s many scrapbooks fall yellowed newspaper clippings that brand her as a fighter, a muckraker, an outsider.In many of the aging photographs she is lecturing someone outside the frame with the same fiery intensity she displays nearly years later in her living room in Surprise.”It’s deja vu all over again,” Madoff says of her latest crusade against air pollution, the issue that has shaped her life…. . FD (FAIR DISCLOSURE) WIRE – Event Brief of Q Teva Pharmaceutical Earnings Conference Call – Final PARTICIPANTS . Kevin Mannix, Teva Pharmaceutical, North American Director IR . Israel Makov, Teva Pharmaceutical, President and CEO . Dan Suesskind, Teva Pharmaceutical, CFO . Gregg Gilbert, Merrill Lynch, Analyst . Rich Silver, Lehman Brothers, Analyst . Tim Chiang, FTN Midwest Securities, Analyst . Michael Tong, Wachovia Securities, Analyst . Elliot Wilbur, CIBC World Markets, Analyst . George Barrett, Teva Pharmaceutical, North America President &… . Economic Times, The (Bombay, India) – The Economic Times: Local cos line up for Merck unit : The bidding process for the generics business of German pharmaceutical corporation Merck is set to begin in a few days. The advisors to Merck have invited bids to be placed by and Indian drug makers are in hectic parleys with private equity funds to freeze their plans.Dr Reddy’s, which has so far “neither denied nor confirmed” its interest officially, is learnt to be interested in Merck’s generics business, which has annual… –