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Look out, below: A load of dietary super bunk is raining down from celebrities
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Putting a little ‘heart’ into public investments in health really can pay off
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Why are medical bills soaring? Blame a 42% hike in hospital prices.
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OxyContin reformulation faulted in 222% spike in hepatitis C infections
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Anti-vaxxer nonsense fueling dangerous measles outbreaks, officials fear
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FDA ripped for failures on e-cigarettes and flavors for vaping and smoking
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For frail seniors, program offers choices and supports to keep them home
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Harsh reminder of opioid peril: A single smuggling bust seized fentanyl enough for 144 million fatal overdoses
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Will Rx drug costs fall if U.S. puts squeeze on middlemen and curbs rebates?
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Motoring madness is taking its toll on Americans in an array of ways
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Doctors ordering wasteful and excessive MRI and CT scans, experts say
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OK, you’re sick and hurting. Can’t we still hit you up about donating to our hospital?
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For too many women, an unending and painful tangle with surgical mesh
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What’s prodding contact sports’ big shifts on head trauma? Insurance companies’ ‘panic’
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Savvy Rx from a resident: Docs, know why and what you’re ordering, please
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Diabetes is serious. So why aren’t patients getting more treatment help?
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Rich family played big role in opioid crisis, court records show
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Pot harmless? No, and pro-con arguments over marijuana are ablaze, again
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Obesity and poverty may stall 25-year decline in cancer deaths, experts warn
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Overdose deaths soar among women 30+
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Cracking down on medical hype could cut $30 billion in wasted costs
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Add these to your 2019 health resolutions: Hearing, diet, and clutter
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Hospitals post price lists, but patients still cannot decipher what care really costs
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Inspections fail to halt flow of billions of doses of tainted and flawed drugs
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A clarion call for real safeguards for patients harmed by medical devices
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Who didn’t see this coming? Patient anger grows over knee surgery hype
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Patients put at risk by lax oversight at psych hospitals and surgery centers
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‘Bleed Out’ details how daunting the pursuit of justice can be for harmed patients
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Launch 2019 safe and healthy: Don’t drive while distracted or under the influence
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1.3 million reasons why vaping blunder should imperil FDA chief’s job
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With more disclosures like these, why would patients want robot surgery?
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In hectic holidays, don’t ignore cautions on food, teething toys, antibiotics
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As assisted living facilities increase dementia care, resident safety risks rise
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Price-fixing scandal ensnares ‘white-hat’ makers of lower-cost generic drugs
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30-year Swedish study boosts two approaches to prostate cancer care
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Johnson & Johnson hid knowledge of talc’s taint with asbestos, reports say
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D.C. residents can still get Obamacare. It’s the law of the land, despite Texas ruling.
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Simple toys are best for kids, pediatricians say
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Medicare is fining nursing homes when patients are readmitted too soon to hospitals
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Big Pharma settlements in kick-back cases fuel doubts on patient groups, too
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Medical debt is a horror. Charity is a help. But get that health insurance, now.
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Just the Facts, Ma’am: Medical malpractice lawsuits safeguard patients & improve health system
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When Johns Hopkins’ ambitions grew in Tampa, kids suffered, probe shows
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U.S. life expectancy dives as drug overdoses and suicides soar
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As media expose damaging medical devices, FDA unveils regulatory revamp
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Don’t let Grinches deter you: Get that health coverage, especially for kids
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Profiteering hospitals hit new low: billing and dunning women for rape tests
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Where do patients fit in, as hospitals get bigger, pricier, and advertise more?
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With these holiday gifts, health-conscious may need to add dose of skepticism
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NHL short-changes players and medical science in concussion settlement
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With road deaths already a concern, a new spotlight shines on bad tires
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Staying healthy, safe and thankful during the holidays
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FDA to play yet more catch-up to crack down on e-cigarettes and flavorings
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Misdiagnosis: a medical menace to quality and safety of patient care
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Harms of medical bunk are real, as $105 million verdict affirms
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Voters nationwide sent a powerful health care message. Will partisans heed it?
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Big Pharma shows off its big gall with risky products and dubious practices
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There they go again: Surgeons ‘innovate,’ but women patients get put at higher risk
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Gun violence takes terrible toll on kids too
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Tuesday’s a crucial health care day, and health coverage deadlines loom
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With boasts about foodstuffs’ health benefits, a grain of salt is needed, too
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Why are doctors and hospitals still bungling patients’ records requests?
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The downside of crowd-funding medical treatments for desperate patients
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Really? Trump embraces Europe’s price controls to fight high U.S. drug costs
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Health care advocacy group to expand ratings to include surgery centers
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31 heart studies retracted in latest failure for much-hyped stem-cell therapies
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USC bids $215 million to settle gynecologist scandal, with up to 17,000 claims
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Will counter-factual claims and Big Pharma cash sway critical midterm votes?
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Officials around the globe take steps to battle public health menace of suicide
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Hurricane Michael shows extreme planning may be key to protect medical care
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Hundreds of supplements for diet, muscle, and sex are tainted with risky drugs
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Will Supreme Court reconsider government’s immunity from medical malpractice suits by active-duty military?
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Unhappy meals: Fast food still tops out too many time-stressed eaters’ menus
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Congrats on the raise. Too bad it’s gone already. For health insurance.
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Not so noble: Big Pharma profiteering off the work of Nobel laureates
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Congress approves 650-page bill to attack opioid crisis, as doubts abound
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Big Pharma takes rare price cut on hepatitis C drugs, but other drug prices continue to march north
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As partisans scuffle, Medicare surprises by reducing per-patient spending
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Battle is on to bring down sky-high costs of emergency medical transport
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Why should we all get flu shots? 80,000 deaths, including 180 kids, in 2017
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In renewed call for baby walker ban, a reminder how hazards hang around
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A harsh reminder: Medical errors are so common, they savage celebrities, too
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‘Fat shaming’ plays ugly role in medicine’s failing campaign to treat obesity
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Doctors too readily provide dubious treatments to vulnerable seniors
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Hospitals slammed for ventures that exploit patients and violate their privacy
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When doctors fail to stay up-to-date, patients suffer serious consequences
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While it can offer hope, medical research proves anew to be a fraught field
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Chilling reprise of ‘Dr. Death’s’ bloody spree should shame hospitals and alarm lawmakers
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Is FDA’s new crackdown on e-cigarettes too little, too late?
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Common sense on kids and concussions, adult heart disease, frats and booze
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Maryland researchers set a new stage for clearer explanation of medical risks
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With a knee you can see: Yes, Obamacare helps to cut costs and improve care
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Nursing homes and assisted living facilities assailed for risky and shabby care
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Big Tobacco skunks regulators yet again in finding new ways to target teens
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As 2018 season kicks off, college football reckons with head trauma harms
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Sex gets riskier as syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia cases spike for fourth year
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Pool safety in question after near-drowning in DC public pool
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Exasperation abounds over lavish profiteering by doctors and hospitals
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Americans in their 60s and 70s struggle as caregivers for older relatives
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Can ‘sunshine’ of evidence-based facts dispel fog of diet and nutrition hokum?
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So, it’s true: Hospitals set steep surgery prices just by ‘spitballing’ costs
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As Pharma beefs about testing, tougher comparative studies may be key
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Millions of teens suffer concussions as experts link head trauma to suicide risk
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Doctors and hospitals tussle over surgery for less-invasive heart valve repair
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Maryland tragedy underscores need for tough safeguards for players’ health
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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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