<rss xmlns:cm="http://choicemedia.com/content/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><title>ColdFluCentral.com - Latest Cold &amp; Flu News</title><link>http://www.healthcentral.com/cold-flu/</link><description>Latest Cold &amp; Flu News from ColdFluCentral.com</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>60</ttl><image><title>ColdFluCentral.com</title><width>120</width><height>19</height><url>http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif</url><link>http://www.healthcentral.com/cold-flu/</link></image><item><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:16:04 EDT</pubDate><title>Hospitals close to agreeing to accept Medicare cuts</title><link>http://www.healthcentral.com/rheumatoid-arthritis/news-292768-98.html</link><description>According to Kaiser Health News, the hospital industry is about to agree to accept federal funding cuts of $150 billion to $170 billion over the next decade to help pay for efforts to reform the national healthcare system.</description><guid 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