Speakers at ASN Kidney Week urge nephrologists to appeal prior authorization denials, include children in trials, and expand access to glomerular disease therapies globally.
|Articles|October 17, 2012
Health Policy Finds Its Way Into Town Hall Debate
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Even when the questions aren't about health care, many of the responses are. Here's what President Barack Obama and his Republican opponent, former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney had to say Tuesday night about contraception, Medicare and the health law.
The town hall debate between the two candidates took place in Hempstead, N.Y.
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