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Insurance shares slump, with Hartford down 29 pct (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Shares of Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. and other life insurers fell Wednesday as investors grew more concerned about the sector's large exposure to commercial mortgage investments and the variable annuity business.

Insurance shares slump as concerns grow (The Times of India)
Shares of Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. and other life insurers fell as investors grew more concerned about the sector's large exposure to commercial mortgage investments and the variable annuity business.

Despite national guidelines, private insurers, ER, federal and state agencies fail to routinely test for HIV (PhysOrg)
While the U.S. AIDS epidemic simmers largely unnoticed by most Americans, a failure to widely implement routine HIV testing continues to fuel its spread, HIV researchers and experts said today. Almost 60,000 Americans were infected with HIV last year, and, nationwide, 50-to-70 percent of new sexually transmitted infections are spread by people who do not know they are infected. Guidelines issued ...

Despite national guidelines, private insurers, ER, federal and state agencies fail to routinely test for HIV (EurekAlert!)
( Forum for Collaborative HIV Research ) The Forum for Collaborative HIV Research convened a national summit on Nov. 19-21, at which some 300 leading HIV researchers, health care providers, and policymakers shared new data on the advances and barriers to early, routine HIV testing, considered a key to slowing the US epidemic which now encompasses more than 1.1 million Americans living with HIV.

Markets hammer life insurers (The Indianapolis Star)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Shares of life insurers fell Wednesday as investors grew more concerned about the sector's large exposure to commercial mortgage investments and the variable annuity business.