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Drug overdose toll hits another record as abusers fall prey to synthetic opioids
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A worthy campaign to prevent the daily toll of children dying from gunfire: ‘End Family Fire’
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Lax oversight and safety nightmares burgeon with boom in surgical centers
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NFL settlements raise new questions on head trauma and Parkinson’s and ALS
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After feds bust U.S. rep for insider trading in Pharma stock, will Congress drain ethics swamp?
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Say what? Mar-a-Lago trio acting as ‘shadow rulers’ of Trump’s VA
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For sick seniors, hospitals and nursing homes can be nothing but bad news
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Shift-and-shaft: Why is it always patients’ burden to hunt for affordable care?
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As Big Pharma rivals battled to hype opioids, watchdogs dozed. They slumber still.
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Medical valor is on finest display as wind-whipped wildfires roar in California
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Pediatricians, with blast at FDA, warn of food additive and packaging risks to kids
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Colonoscopies carry higher infection risks than previously believed
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Patients? We’re just profitable bit$ and byte$ to Big Pharma and insurers
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With 100 deaths a day, when will the U.S. renew campaign for safer motoring?
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Wrestler scandal fuels rising concern on how schools, teams protect kids
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Watch this documentary before you let a surgeon use a robot to cut inside you
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Medicaid costs soaring? Blame Big Pharma’s big-dollar state-level campaigns
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More bad booze news: Liver disease deaths are rising, especially among young
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Baltimore bounces sugary sodas off restaurant children’s menus, favoring milk, water, juices
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When Big Pharma dives for dollars, crises erupt but dire needs go unanswered
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In health care, nursing homes not alone in confronting staffing problems
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ER intervention may be a key way to avert patients’ repeat suicide attempts
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Wilting in the summer’s heat: Food safety, water hygiene, and officials’ ethics
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For women, more reasons to consider HPV test, while fertility rates decline
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FDA fails to police its elite MD-advisers’ ‘pay later’ deals with Big Pharma
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Summer’s discontent: Evidence defies partisans on ACA, Medicaid expansion
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Blame drug makers for ER shortfalls in caring for patients in ‘trauma season’
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NHL sells its players short by failing to acknowledge harms of head blows
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Will medical researchers turn away Big Tobacco’s billion-dollar Trojan horse?
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Regulators want to ease safety standards for hospital infections that still sicken millions
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High-deductible nightmares: the health insurance crisis partisans ignore
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A billion reasons to worry that rushed FDA approvals put patient safety at risk
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WHO makes it official: Young folks can get addicted to video gaming
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No surgery is free of risks or complications, as breast reconstruction study reminds
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Why are advance directives so key? Look at tough stats on ventilator survival
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No summer break for partisans’ extreme attacks on health care access
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Depression and suicide risk are side-effects in too many common drugs
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Lasik surgery: a study in medical risks, complications, lack of official followup
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Hospitals and nursing homes need to do more to stop ‘boomerang’ abuses
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NIH ripped for Big Alcohol funding and advising on $100-million drinking study
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San Francisco voters send strong message cracking down on kids’ vaping
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For early-stage breast cancer patients, dreaded chemo may be unneeded
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Will voters recall what Trump and GOP do on health, not just what they say?
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It’s not just celebrities; CDC warns of public health crisis in suicides
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Is there a doctor aboard? While flying this summer, you may hope so
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Stigma inflicts harsh toll on mentally ill, but society pays too
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Be skeptical of cancer society’s call for earlier colorectal screenings
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With more legal pot and a raging opioid crisis, deadly drugged driving spikes
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Virginia expands Medicaid coverage, as Obamacare foes lose another state
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Stars helping to shed a light on struggles with mental health
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A bit of optimism for the 65+: a dozen years on average of cognitive health
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Heart doctors under fire over their pricey practices
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Let’s bust this myth now: Don’t expect insurers to help cut medical bills
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Experts issue new cautions as hospitals and ERs treat a spike in teen suicides
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Overrun by sports performance chatter? Can questions on MBI bust the bunk?
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FDA tries to prod Big Pharma on prices with a new ‘naming and shaming’ list
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Dangerous doctors rip off Medicare, creep out coeds, harm transplant patients
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Virginia, Maryland, and kids bear early brunt of partisan health care attacks
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Concern swirls anew over health risks posed by nasty ‘third-hand’ smoke
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Skepticism reigns as Trump finally details plan to rein in prescription drug costs
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Why do we tolerate up to 80,000 mothers each year suffering big injuries in childbirth?
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For bicyclists and pedestrians, new risks from unsafe drivers and dirty air
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Asthma inhalers show how Big Pharma chokes us all with high costs
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Cities battle opioid carnage that now includes lethal fentanyl mixtures
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Medical hype can be lethal, as ‘minimally invasive’ chest surgery shows
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FDA busts e-cigarette sellers but stays silent on tough rules for device makers
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Despite deaths and infections, dirty scopes get used even more
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Hospitals, cancer centers ripped for ‘tear-jerker’ hype and clinical trial ‘sell out’
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Princely birth underscores how poorly U.S. moms fare in comparison
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Doctors must give patients more help with medical uncertainty and complexity
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District tests an alternative answer to what really ails too many 911 callers
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Hospitals and rise in health jobs blamed as medical costs head north, again
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Sickening eggs and lettuce? Didn’t we pass a major law to fix food safety?
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Trust your gut: Don’t swallow hype about ‘microbiome’ and dietary gee-whiz
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Retail clinics are booming, but can’t be a cheaper cure-all for patient needs
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Big Medicine can’t hide patient inequities by calling them ‘disparities’ in care
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Will opioid crisis raise red flags for long-term antidepressant use?
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Are we back to this? Kids targeted by nicotine and sugary cereal peddlers
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Lack of money can make you sick
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Hospitals give patients and taxpayers too many causes for high anxiety
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As opioids take a work toll, more Americans urged to carry overdose antidote
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Pro sports faulted for fattening fans, old and young, with blitzes of food ads
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Calif. warns hospitals to boost quality, safety of care or get booted from ACA
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Off-label drug tied to deaths, $1 billion in harms — and $3.6 billion in sales
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Why are some ER doctors refusing to give stroke patients ‘brain-saving’ care?
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Smoke- and road-risks of pot can’t be ignored
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High-tech advances? They may prod you to get your medical records, asap
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U.S. put up $1 billion already to fight opioid crisis. But states failed to spend it.
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Sick and injured battered by costs of hospitalization, long-term care, bad jobs
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FDA launches new anti-smoking campaign that targets addictive nicotine
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Can hospital costs be constrained? Maryland’s unique test says ‘yes,’ for now
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Harsh new glare falls on fertility clinics’ booming business after major mishaps
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Doctors who take bucks from Big Pharma write more opioid prescriptions
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Veterans deserve better than more scandals at VA hospitals in DC, nationwide
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$21 million a year for one patient’s drugs? Big Pharma’s profiteering bleeds patients
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ERs see a 30 percent spike in drug overdose cases, as opioid crisis worsens
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Diabetics caught up in medical experts’ dispute over key blood sugar metric
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Why are doctors operating, needlessly and so often, on frail seniors?
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Rx to save patients money: Lift Big Pharma ‘gag orders’ on pharmacists
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Big hospital ‘obsolescence’ may be nigh, but new care centers have woes, too
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What happens to MDs in trouble? Hundreds just move on to another state
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As think tank steps into gun-research void, a study finds safety when NRA members attend trade shows
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Is it carbs, fats, calories, or genes in dieting? Try quality food in moderation
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When big money floods into health care, the results can be crazy and corrosive
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As tens of thousands seek flu care, a warning on hospital-acquired pneumonia
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To treat gun violence as a health crisis, start with existing myth-busting data
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Don’t over- or under-estimate preventive medicine as flu epidemic rages
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FDA approves a blood test to diagnose severity of traumatic brain injury
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Senate report assails Big Pharma for payments to patient groups for opioid-friendly messaging
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Better than a thought and a prayer: Treat gun violence as a public health crisis
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For expectant moms, new study’s findings raise a red flag on alcohol use
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Unacceptable, still: Nursing homes turning 180,000 seniors into drug zombies
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Will partisan assault on Obamacare also rack up costs of car insurance?
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Big Pharma firm, under fire in drug abuse epidemic, scales back opioid’s hype
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Winter Games and Super Bowl offer health takeaways, too
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Common sense needs to rule the roost in accommodating support animals
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A new caution on how breast cancer care also can harm women’s hearts
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How bad’s the opioid crisis? It may curb purchases of familiar diarrhea remedy
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What was she thinking? CDC chief quits when caught trading tobacco stock
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Gymnastics scandal offers a tragic reminder of challenges in protecting kids
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Yes, an ounce of prevention is still worth a pound of cure
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For stroke patients, a new finding doubles window for healing help
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Politicians toss a CHIP at poor but ignore big woes like soaring medical costs
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Repeated, lesser head hits, and not just concussions, linked to brain harms
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As fatalities and wrecks rise, experts call for crackdown on booze and driving
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Medical devices are an unregulated ‘Wild, Wild West,’ investigator warns
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Sick of woes with Big Pharma, hospitals moving to make own generic drugs
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Do D.C. smokers really want to toss away $1.9 million on an unhealthy habit?
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Sleep deaths and other evidence show U.S. has far to go on kids’ health
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President O? Let’s first look hard at her role in hyping health humbug
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As flu season rages, please get vaccinated and take other precautions
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The U.S. way? Rich reap good health, while poor toil in sickness
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Safety and injury prevention should be part of our new year exercise plans
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Over-screening skews disease research and puts harsh burdens on seniors
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Experts fret over how precise key basics may be in ‘precision medicine’
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‘Raw water:’ Liquid looniness
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What’s a key factor in black moms’ high death rates? Segregated hospitals
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Secret settlements in medical malpractice are bad for patient safety
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FDA caught dawdling in key duty of getting contaminated foods off shelves
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U.S. eases fines even as nursing homes faulted for infections, evictions
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Vegas shooting victims finding tough road to recovery from mass tragedy
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As opioid crisis worsens, fentanyl is killing African Americans in DC & Baltimore
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Whoa, nelly: Equestrian sports found to be a top cause of adult brain trauma
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9 million reasons to doubt Trump-GOP argument that Obamacare is dead
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Adults can make holidays extra special by focusing on kids’ health & well-being
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It’s not a stretch: Avoid those over-use boo-boos, older yogis are warned
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Why worry about gung-ho approvals for medical devices? FDA’s own record
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As bad 2017 ends, So. Calif. wildfires put yet more big stress on public health
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Seven words that federal scientists are no longer supposed to use (one is “science-based”)
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Race plays a too negative and persistent role in health care in DC and elsewhere
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Surgeons found to put patients at greater risk in simultaneous hip operations
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Big, rich hospitals can do much more to battle asthma, opioid drug abuse
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It’s clear to see: Cataract surgery can extend and improve women’s lives (and men’s too)
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For holidays, consider helping others and yourself with gifts of life and health
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Experts wave red flags about health harms tied to road warriors’ hard travels
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A Kansas reminder: Nursing homes over-reliant still on antipsychotic drugs
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Does modern medicine give patients with major brain trauma really fair care?
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Tax bill will have big health care effects, none of them good
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Are smart phones & e-devices putting teen-aged girls in harm’s way?
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Angry patients get taken for a costly ride by ambulance companies
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Medicine needs to face up to sexism and sexual harassment in medical workplaces
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Pay attention to road safety to ensure holiday cheer
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New warnings on ‘Big Vape’s’ smokescreen for e-cigs’ health risks, benefits
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Nursing home residents too often abused, evicted, at risk in natural disasters
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Non-MDs do skin biopsies at many dermatology clinics, with sketchy results
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Let’s give thanks for a holiday respite from health policy turkey shoot in DC
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New normal reclassifies millions as having high blood pressure, so now what?
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Overzealous youth athletics can result in hobbled adults later
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Let’s toast to common sense, moderation with drinking, cancer-risk studies
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In an opioid drug crisis, urine testing becomes an $8.5 billion business
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First-responders, trauma response wins praise in Texas church shooting
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Health care access appears to have played a big role in elections last week
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Some straight dope on pot products, soy foods, essential oils, stem cell hype
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Federal, state officials targeting anew EpiPen safety, soaring insulin costs
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Why are doctors and hospitals so quick to turn to heart stents and robotic devices?
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United Medical Center’s woes deepen as ratings group rips DC-area hospitals
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Elmo and George Washington University get caught up in researcher-PR hype
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Profiteers debasing hospice care, insulting dead with body parts trafficking
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As breast cancer patients know, over-testing and over-treatment are big woes
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Halloween treats? Don’t forget to trick-and-treat yourself into health insurance, too
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Trillions in tax cuts for the rich, pennies to fight the opioid drug crisis
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Heads up: Youth concussions may be tied to later multiple sclerosis diagnoses
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As medical costs climb, it’s not just drip, drip waste, look at hospital bloat, too
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With obesity soaring, Americans gulled by dark chocolate myths and more
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Shame and blame in a lame nomination for drug policy chief
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As infertility, testicular cancer rates rise, is it time for male private(s) talk?
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Little red pills, given off-label to seniors by the millions, are no laughing matter
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Uncle Sam should be wary in partnering with Big Pharma on cancer treatments
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Latest disastrous strain on medical care: Northern California wildfires
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Trump, by executive fiat, tries to blow up ACA with cheap, skimpy alternatives
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U.S. watchdogs tally $1.5 billion cost for one type of defective medical device
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Plastic surgery patients don’t need surgeons who are social media clowns
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40 percent of diagnosed cancers linked with patients’ excess weight
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Las Vegas tragedy helps highlight what’s right with nation’s health care system
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For young athletes, head contact and infections can pose costly risks
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FDA, lacking staff and budget, falls short on oversight of food processing
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Puerto Rico engulfed by hurricane-caused health care crisis
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One pig is ousted from the public trough, but what about his health care harms?
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Pediatricians may be the Rx for rising tide of tats, piercings, scars in youths
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Sound sleep for young could be an economic boon and helpful with ADHD
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Big Insurance ripped for fueling opioid drug epidemic
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Sunday pro football games aren’t the place to serve up genetic screening malarkey
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New questions on safety, for old and young, about medications for the mind
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Regulators probing sanitary & staffing woes at leading D.C. hospital
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In hurricanes’ wake, new concerns about elderly and tainted waters
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‘Poor me’ cries from Big Pharma, medical device makers? They’re bunk
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GOP senators trying to sneak in one more push to repeal, replace Obamacare
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Dr. Watson? IBM’s super computer may not be such a medical whiz, after all
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Joint Commission assailed for lax oversight of hospitals’ safety, quality
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A new tool for finding how your hospital rates
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In a sadly still unequal U.S., parasites flourish and rural moms can’t get care
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In hospitals, angry guys with guns (even with badges) are a bad idea
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As fentanyl deaths soar, big questions on Big Pharma’s role in pushing drug
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Baltimore health program keeps eyes on prize: kids’ vision, school success
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Nursing homes, where more of us will go, fail to properly report abuse cases
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Big Pharma advances cancer, heart care–but with $475,000 price tags for consumers?
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Flooding staggers Texas medical system
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Court rejects coercive, biased rule favoring intrusive workplace wellness plans
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Pinpointing cancer’s cause: a costly, complex, maddening challenge
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Ravages of opioid drug abuse epidemic worsen, grow ever more complex
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Solar eclipse was awesome, and you can plan for the next one
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In heart care, new questions about a familiar test and a surgical option
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Can VA’s struggles, successes help improve health care for us all?
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Why do so many boomers suffer knee, hip arthritis when our forebears didn’t?
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New disclosures deepen scandal over DC hospital’s risky obstetrics care
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Consumers beware: There’s lots of ugly in beauty products
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While other addictions hit crisis levels, we can’t ignore soaring alcohol woes
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D.C. hospital crackdown shows how patient safety information stays secret
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FDA, EPA jointly offer expectant parents counsel on safer fish eating
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A timely reminder that courageous (and lonely) caregivers need our care, too
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Eye safety will be a must while viewing Aug. 21 total eclipse of the sun
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It’s a sad day when special interests crow about their sway on laws to cut patient access to civil justice
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With health care in tumult, patients should get their own records, GAO advises
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Money’s big for Big Pharma — in settlements, lobbying, and product prices
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Post-mortem study confirms extensive damage to brains of NFL players
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FDA announces major tactical shift in nation’s war on smoking
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After GOP fails to repeal Obamacare, what’s next for U.S. health care?
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Fitness fans: Don’t spin your way into dehydration or muscle damage
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Americans waste hundreds of millions annually by tossing ‘expired’ drugs
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Fame, reputation and a med school dean’s secret life
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As Trumpcare founders, GOP offers harsh paths for government on health
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Why you will see many fewer erectile dysfunction ads this fall: a story of crazy costs
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Don’t give medical device makers more time before disclosing product woes
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Anesthesia residents offer eye-opening insights on drowsy MD perils
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Keeping our kids from toking on poison
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Where you live may have major effects on your health: Here are four examples
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Wisconsin appeals court rejects legal changes that GOP seeks nationally
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Better nursing home oversight needed for dangerous facilities
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Are local TV news broadcasts selling out to wealthy medical interests?
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When placenta-eating mom sickens baby, has star health bunk gone too far?
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Pathologists’ errors get new scrutiny as medical tests soar in use, importance
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As opioid drug toll soars, experts zero in on abusers’ mental illnesses, too
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Over 4th, GOP senators seek independence from their health care jam
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Three common-sense ways to improve kids’ health and protect them from harm
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Here’s why you’re getting those unsolicited mailings about clinical trials
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Why do drug prices soar? Blame PBJs, PBMs, weak regulators, and CME
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GOP senators’ Trumpcare: Meaner in many ways than even House plans
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Obesity spreads as global bane, afflicting 604 million adults, 108 million kids
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Big Tobacco, preying on poor and uneducated, also hikes health inequities
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Uncle Sam’s bad reverse: nursing homes returning to forced arbitration
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What’s the Senate hiding on health care bill?
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Bicycling injuries, medical costs rise as older, male riders crash with cars
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A new infectious threat at hospitals & nursing homes: deadly Legionnaire’s
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FDA can’t ignore oversight of drugs, medical devices once on the market
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Fla. justices reject keystones of partisans’ plan to undercut patients’ rights
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As summer softball gets into full swing, a caution on players getting beaned
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Depression now affects 1 in 3 girls — as young as 11
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Ohio sues Big Pharma firms over harms of opioid drug abuse epidemic
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Isn’t it about time that doctors & hospitals understood this about patients?
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Savvy health news consumers are seeing a run of whopper stories
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Three ways to keep kids safer this summer
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A gut check on lap-band surgery, women’s mistreatment in medicine
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Older, sicker patients may benefit from pricey care at teaching hospitals
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GOP health proposals paint grim picture — unless you’re rich
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Searching for a good MD? Research offers insights to navigate hard choices
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Big Pharma tests new hype with tears, laughter, and soap opera plots
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Congress members buy, sell sector stocks even as they make health care law
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White House wants to inflict pain on the poor to force Democrats to bargain on health care
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A million-dollar lie: anti-vaxxers faulted in Minn. measles outbreak
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Routine thyroid cancer screening? It’s rated a D, as in Don’t Do It
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With safety woes found in 1 in 3 approved drugs, does a faster FDA make sense?
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Way Too Many American Moms Still Die in Childbirth
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Parental skepticism needed on juices, ‘organic’ milk, school food programs
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Trump Administration takes a worrisome delay in crackdown on e-cigarettes
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Congress boosts NIH funding but CDC, drug czar’s office aren’t faring as well
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One easy way to cut drug costs? Boot Big Pharma’s sales reps from hospitals
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Trumpcare fight shifts to Senate after House advances some disturbing beliefs
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States may be key battleground to combat deadly sepsis complications in kids
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There may be no place like home after joint replacements
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State botches complaint disclosures on its consumer site on nursing homes
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Who is not so keen on cutting soaring medical costs? Hint: Look at the shiny buildings.
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Teens need more help with school schedules, the law, pregnancy prevention
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FDA warns against giving kids two potent painkillers: codeine, tramadol
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Economists’ Rx for MDs’ legal wellbeing? Practice better medicine
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Congress returns with Trump pressing anew for ACA repeal/replace, but with what?
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Vitamin D is the new poster child of excess testing and treatment
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PSA test gets a new grade: a gentleman’s C
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FDA rebukes heart device maker, even as agency’s oversight raises questions
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Hospital safety and access are still big problems
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Families turn to courts to protect difficult end-of-life choices
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Experts find cancer-causing HPV a widely spread infection among U.S. adults
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Here’s how hospital billing is a sick system for patients, payers, and providers
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FDA reverses course, allows controversial over-the-counter genetic test sales
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GOP made Obamacare popular, and polls show party’s responsible for it now
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Trump insider-nominee to head FDA starts out with list of conflicts of interest
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Troubles at Howard University Hospital should concern us all
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GOP turns from failed blitzkrieg to trench fighting in war against Obamacare
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Evidence grows on lack of merit in GOP attack on harmed patients’ legal rights
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Fake news? Trolls? Science, medical journals struggle with online woes
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This March Madness story could get guys talking in right ways about sex
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GAO, states jump into battles to rein in Big Pharma’s sky-high prices
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Will the Trumpcare fiasco mean that health care is finally accepted as a right?
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Nursery products send thousands of toddlers to ERs each year, study finds
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Public spotlight keeps falling on costly drugs, dubious ‘stem cell’ treatments
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If patient safety matters, why are residents returning to long, sleepless shifts?
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President’s budget ax takes a big whack at medical, scientific funding
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Trumpcare’s numbers don’t add up (except for the wealthy)
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Can the boss see your genetic tests? GOP bill would fine you for not sharing
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Keep moving, U.S. experts urge 50 million Americans struggling with arthritis
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Public health, preventive care programs may take billion-dollar hit
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Trumpcare’s hit on the poor also would steal benefits from the middle-class elderly
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Reversing Robin Hood, Trumpcare would take from the poor, give to the rich
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Doctors urged to better inform patients on the pros and cons of their care
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Evidence mounts of terrible toll of preventable medical error
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Howlers can’t distract voters from GOP’s awful ACA repeal/replace plans
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GOP campaigning to strip patients of key legal protections
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Non-Partisan Videos about What’s Really Going on with High Care Costs in the U.S.
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Can improved design help costly hospitals better prevent patient harms?
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Investigation uncovers troubling numbers of sexual assaults in nursing homes
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Big Pharma enlists more useful allies: pay-for-hire academic economists
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Voters rip GOP reps in town halls, but party leaders press on with ACA assault
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Low back pain? Try exercise before drugs, doctors say
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More disturbing data on over-prescription of powerful pills to seniors
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Obnoxious doctors hurt patients
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Will lawmakers on break get an earful over GOP’s outline for Trumpcare?
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New way to vape shows why e-cigarettes can be an unhealthy drip
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A quarter of U.S. adults may suffer from significant hearing woes, CDC says
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High anxiety at FDA over leadership, faster drug and medical device oversight
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NHL goes low with anti-science blows as it battles players concussion suit
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Floundering GOP gets its ACA repeal-replace architect and tries ‘repairs’
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Pot may be more legal and common, but it’s still unwise for pregnant moms
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As patients sue over insulin’s skyrocketing costs, Trump thunders, confuses
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Health care takes some good steps forward
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“Repeal and replace” Obamacare? GOP now talking about ‘repairing’ health act
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With all the craziness of new year, what’s a good Rx? Exercise. Get moving.
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Will missteps undercut public confidence in a new course on health care?
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Today is Last Chance for Many to Enroll in Health Insurance
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Why you should care about radical Medicaid changes
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GOP plans to repeal, replace Obamacare may divide nation in disturbing ways
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Savvy consumers of health news must be skeptics with common sense
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Big Pharma found to exploit ‘orphan’ drug law to jack up product prices
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Uncertainty rises about leadership in nation’s top health posts
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Rhetoric and reality: Will GOP strip up to 32 million of health insurance?
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By 2020, will we get our health care at home, not at hospitals?
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Women challenged by disparities in many parts of their health care
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Negative spotlight stays on Big Pharma, its hefty prices and risky products
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In Cleveland and in DC, a new outbreak of ridiculousness on vaccinations
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As GOP tries to repeal Obamacare, will Price be architect of its replacement?
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U.S. cracks down on abuse of valuable antibiotics to promote livestock growth
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Seven questions for Congress on Obamacare
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MD’s tips on retail-clinic care offer a reminder of medical records’ importance
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What do we know about best baby care? Peanuts, salve, pills raise questions
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Researchers see ways Obamacare helped to cut costs, improve patient care
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FDA warns hospitals, doctors about fire hazards with medical cart batteries
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Are dire circumstances helping to renew focus on stigmatized mental health?
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Questions grow about rise in aggressive surgery for early breast cancer
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More spent on health care in U.S. than on everything in Britain
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Will Congress rush into an unwarranted attack on the rights of injured patients to sue for medical harm?
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Baby boomers’ big demand for knee replacements challenges Uncle Sam
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U.S. Senate committee rips drug makers for predatory price-gouging
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At home and abroad, Big Pharma has been flooding narcotic pills into markets and spreading opioid drug abuse crisis
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Happier new year? Don’t overdo holiday eating, drinking, travel, socializing
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Star-power reconsidered: What’s the cost of celebrities’ cancer commentaries?
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20 states, U.S. take aim at collusion claims, soaring prices for generic drugs
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New cautions issued on babies and anesthesia, newborn screenings
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Hospital study finds big gaps between best and worst but won’t name names
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Some hospitals play nice, others Scrooge patients over deductibles
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Merry, merry, and happy, happy? Some ideas to keep the holidays safe, healthy
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Novel therapies may be intriguing, but let’s be clear about their pros and cons
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Americans’ life expectancy declines and opioid drug deaths rise
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Did Big Pharma & medical device makers win most in 21st Century Cures Act?
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Uncle Sam, citing safety and health concerns, bans smoking in public housing
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$1 billion verdict in lawsuit against maker of metal-on-metal hip replacements
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Psychedelic drugs gets serious clinical consideration in PTSD, cancer care
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Congress weighs approval for sweeping, $6.3 billion 21st Century Cures Act
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Women need better care, research on head trauma, advocates say
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3 DC-area teaching hospitals rate poorly on preventing central line infections
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Dementia rates are dropping, but a key Alzheimer’s drug fails
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Be wary of counterfactual assertions about Obamacare, Medicare, Medicaid
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For Kentucky’s sick and poor, health policy controversies are harsh realities
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With 1 in 5 ER patients affected, it’s time to stop ‘surprise’ medical bills
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Flurry of new heart health research requires careful, skeptical reading
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Quick tips for a safe and healthy Thanksgiving
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The eyes have it: Young athletes may need more protection against eye injury
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As cancer care advances, costs and concerns keep rising, too
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Adults’ cigarette smoking declines more but its health toll remains huge
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Voters said a big no to Big Soda, yes to pot and Big Pharma. And Obamacare?
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Tired parents shouldn’t stress out about baby’s sleep, SIDS safety advisory
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Strong emotion, high exertion found to increase risk of first-time heart attack
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Surgeon jailed in Dallas, as details unwind still of his terrible spine surgery spree
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