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Health Report: Aug. 16, 1993

THE GOOD NEWS

-- Insurers have traditionally paid out huge sums for medications and major operations while refusing to reimburse patients for less traditional, low-cost preventive therapies. Now Mutual of Omaha says it will pay for an alternative method to stave off or even reverse heart disease. The program, developed by best-selling heart guru Dr. Dean Ornish, includes exercise, diet, meditation and group support. Other insurance companies are expected to follow.

-- A European study has now shown that the safest and cheapest drug to thin the blood after coronary-bypass surgery is just as effective as any other such drug --...

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