Table of contents

RUMSFELD stays as health chief quits with a warning Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Tommy Thompson bids farewell after issuing a warning and announcing his resignation as Health and Human Services Secretary. The ...
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Rumsfeld-stays-as-health-chief-quits-with-a-w
arning/2004/12/05/1102182160788.html

DEFINITY-UNITEDHEALTH combo could spark revolution in US health ... Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Executives at upstart Definity Health and industry behemoth UnitedHealth Group started talking toward the end of summer. The exchanges ...
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1405/5118936.html

HEALTH care help for businesses Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA As small-business owners struggle to manage double-digit jumps in
health-insurance premiums, two business groups are working to better educate entrepreneurs...
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/1206sbhealth06.html


HEALTH service waste 'to top £20bn'The Times - London,England,UK THE National Health Service will cost the country £20 billion more than
it should by 2010 because of the Government's failure to implement cost-effective ...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1390299,00.html

HEALTH Highlights: Dec. 5, 2004 Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - Atlanta,GA,USA The central figure in the burgeoning steroids-in-sports scandal says he provided performance-enhancing drugs to numerous world-class athletes,including track ...
http://www.ajc.com/health/content/shared-auto/healthnews/prss/522722.html


NEW Drugs Offer Help; Won't Halt Huge Rise in Diabetes PharmaLive.com (press release) - Newtown,PA,USA
... "Although the influx of new drug classes is definitely good news for both pharmaceutical companies and diabetics, none of the new drugs will
be the answer to ...
http://www.pharmalive.com/News/index.cfm?articleid=195898&categoryid=10>

LESS Fat Makes Better Process for Designing New Drugs Newswise (press release) - USA... Understanding protein structure is an important first step in designing
protein-specific drugs. Should the new crystallization method prove versatile,it could ...
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/508694/>