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FDA may be letting medical device makers fudge safety reports, study finds
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Summer optimism wilts as contagious Delta variant rages in unvaccinated
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Olympians offer golden insights on the importance of mental health for all
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$140 billion in medical debt slams patients, especially the poor and uninsured
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Big Pharma is hard to rein in. Just look at two drug cases grabbing headlines.
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For nursing homes, a different kind of infection and unvaccinated staff raise alarms
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Vexation rises as unvaccinated dig in and pandemic surges with Delta variant
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Surgical robot’s maker sued over business practices — but not patients’ care?
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Worse than feared: Drug overdoses rose 30% to record levels during pandemic
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Sharp reminders of the need to watch out for dangerous doctors
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CDC official sees a ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’ as coronavirus cases surge
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Hospitals gouge poor and uninsured patients with top prices, cost data show
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As opioid drug-case settlement advances, fentanyl deaths spike in D.C. area
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FDA puts the brakes on use of new Alzheimer’s drug and asks for outside investigation of its own hasty OK
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With 4 million deaths, pandemic’s persistent peril is clear globally. But in U.S.?
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For the vulnerable and injured, more proof that civil lawsuits provide key way to obtain justice
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U.S. advances key new protections for patients from ‘surprise’ medical bills
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Pacific Northwest-scorcher shows climate change can create big health risks
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Independence holiday shadowed by viral variant and deep national divides
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For a fun and safe Fourth, don’t fire off guns or blow up fireworks, please
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Nursing home deaths spiked 32% in 2020 due to pandemic, U.S. watchdog finds
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High-tech tools can boost blacks’ cancer warnings — and be racially biased
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As delta variant rises and vaccinations fall, stubborn virus digs in for summer
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Hospitals look mighty craven in deep digs into their draconian debt collection
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Who can’t see problems in medical device makers paying surgeons billions?
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U.S. likely to miss July 4 vaccination goal, with concern rising about variants
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Dozens of tuberculosis infections, including northern Virginia, tied to putty used in orthopedic surgeries
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Tens of millions keep Obamacare as justices toss a GOP suit for a third time
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14 million +1 reasons why sexual abuses of young athletes can’t be ignored
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Prince George’s County finally gets new hospital to replace 75-year-old facility
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Speedy OK of Alzheimer’s drug creates a big mess for patients and taxpayers
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Covid shots are voluntary. Mostly. But pressures are growing on unvaccinated.
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Beer, donuts, childcare, rides, lotto prizes — will vaccination incentives work?
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U.S. consumer agency cracks down on baby sleepers tied to dozens of deaths
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Plaintiffs’ fortitude: It’s an admirable must when battling corporate fat cats
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Top medical journals, ob-gyns, and NFL all face tough reckoning with racism
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Congresswoman discloses her health emergency to warn against OTC drugs
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In quelling pandemic, officials confront perilous chasm with the unvaccinated
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Whoa, summer sneaked in! Here’s how to make it a safe, healthy, fun time
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New health care leader looks to clean up the nursing home mess
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Hospitals rip patients with draconian debt collection and costly parking fees
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Big Pharma, battling over sky-high prices, called out on big fib on R&D costs
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Virginia Ob-gyn sentenced to 59 years in prison for harming patients and ripping off insurers
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In the rush to return to normality, reasons abound why it just doesn’t feel that great
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‘The Crime of the Century’ documents our lethal opioid tragedy
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D.C. will spend $10 million to battle increasing traffic injuries and deaths
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Investigators rip University of Michigan for failing to halt decades of sexual abuse of young men
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Easing of public health guidelines signals big progress in quelling pandemic
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All U.S. patients need a primary care doctor, panel of top experts recommends
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Hospitals called out for performing too many low-value tests and procedures
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Big reconsideration under way for long-term care as coronavirus toll eases
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U.S. targets July 4 for independence from grip of coronavirus pandemic
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Whether by stars or letter grades, D.C. hospitals again rank so-so at best
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U.S. will ban targeted health menace of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars
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U.S. ends confusion and expands prescribing of opioid-fighting medication
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As the world begs for vaccine doses, millions in U.S. shun the shots
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Drivers are speeding with dire consequences. And a crackdown is coming fast.
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Heavy marijuana use by pregnant women can harm babies, big California study finds
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UVA health system will curb decades of hounding patients over medical bills
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Will the reluctant and resistant trip up the campaign to quell the pandemic?
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Sexually transmitted infections spike for sixth year in a row, CDC reports
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Biden urged by NAACP and black health groups to ban menthol in cigarettes
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Alarms sounding as opioid-overdose crisis worsens, especially with fentanyl
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Pandemic numbers do add up — to a complex and persistent health menace
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With malpractice claims constrained, injured Florida kids and families struggle
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Questions aplenty about medical device-makers paying doctors $3.6 billion
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Racism? CDC calls it a threat. Prominent doctors need a kick to recognize it.
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Battle stays bumpy against an uneven pandemic, fueling further uncertainty
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State license boards warn doctors of consequences for sexual misbehavior
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Can U.S. billions keep seniors at home and out of problem nursing homes?
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From Medicare seniors, lessons on delayed care and importance of insurance
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U.S. teeters between vaccines’ rising successes and pandemic’s fourth wave
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Though the pandemic curtailed vehicle travel, pedestrian fatalities skyrocketed
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Biden extends special sign-up period for Obamacare with increased subsidies
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USC to pay $1.1 billion to settle gynecologist’s hundreds of sex abuse cases
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The data could not be clearer: Stubborn pandemic demands caution still
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With kids’ return to sports, a reminder about serious risks of head trauma
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Plutocratic clan offers $1 billion more in bankruptcy bid to end opioid suits
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Cancer experts seeing advanced cases with care delayed by pandemic fears
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Battle to quell coronavirus pandemic opens up yet more troubling divides
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Mizzou pays $16.2 million to 22 over knee surgeries involving veterinarian
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U.S. nursing-home rating system ‘broken’ by gamed data and poor oversight
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$1.9-trillion Biden law takes major steps to reshape U.S. health and health care
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A year after pandemic began, mourning and reasons for guarded optimism
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Nursing homes’ lethal health-staffing problem: Churn rates as high as 300%
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Is killer opioid crisis an ‘afterthought,’ as U.S. struggles with many problems?
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Insurers and employers could save $352 billion if hospitals stuck to Medicare rates
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While experts say pandemic is far from over, ‘Neanderthal thinking’ booms
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Panicked over prediabetes? For older patients, more evidence to say: Not to worry
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As virus threat eases, alarms sound on hedge funds owning nursing homes
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Vet, with aid from Congress, forces VA to increase disclosures in malpractice cases
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In the battle to defeat the coronavirus, a tough winter test of nation’s fortitude
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$1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill also carries big boost for health care coverage
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To rein in health costs, experts focus on $1.2 trillion in U.S. hospital spending
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Big freeze heats up need for emergency plans for individuals and institutions
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Weather delays and public confusion keep rollout choppy for virus vaccines
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As vehicle makers race into future, whither road- and product-safety issues?
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Big Pharma’s twist: Billions in opioid settlements convert into huge tax breaks
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Nursing home coronavirus cases and deaths decline as vaccinations increase
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U.S. offers guidance on school re-opening, redoubled individual safeguards
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Beware of toxic heavy metals in baby foods, congressional group warns
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Consultant to pay $573.9 million as consequence of its sketchy opioid advice
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As coronavirus vaccinations gain momentum, equity challenges increase, too
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Hospitals profiteer on injured car wreck victims with sky-high bills and liens
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Battle against coronavirus may be boosting rise of drug-resistant superbugs
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Companies duck and dodge on safety, liability, cost of products and services
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Biden orders expand access and affordability of health care for millions
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U.S. seeks to boost vaccine supply and use. Why wasn’t this done already?
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When end-of-life wishes get ignored, courts see another kind of malpractice
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Nursing home staffing plunges as shots go up in long-term care facilities
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Pardon spree frees rogues gallery of health care crooks who stole billions
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Job One for Biden: Ending pandemic
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A study finds black babies survive better when treated by black doctors
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Knee and hip surgeries offer a glimpse into disparities in health care costs
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Only in America: Desperate patients raise billions in online donations to pay for crushing medical costs
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Exiting Trump officials create confusion and stoke anger on vaccination plans
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Speeding, distraction, intoxication: Why U.S. roads turned so lethal in 2020
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In nursing homes, Covid-19 deaths and infections spike, as vaccinations lag
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Rich investors buy up MD practices and seek to strip patient safeguards
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U.S. must take more honest shot at battling this pandemic
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With driving and wrecks still virus limited, do insurers owe customers more?
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Hospitals start to roll out newly required data on prices and confidential deals
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U.S. rejects expert advice, keeps its diet-nutrition guidelines mostly the same
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Pandemic exposes how push for profits can imperil nursing home residents
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Auld Lang Syne’s melancholy? This go-around it may be a tragic, viral dirge
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U.S. suit accuses Walmart of fueling deadly opioid crisis via its pharmacies
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How does U.S. improve its health care if the president excuses wrongdoing?
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Coronavirus vaccinations lag behind plan as experts track contagious variant
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A wish for this somber holiday: gratitude for those who helped others, and an end to the attacks on science
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Patients get unexpected year-end cheer — new curbs on surprise medical bills
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With virus toll grim and shots starting, knowledge about vaccines can be key
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Plutocratic Sacklers say sorry but not our fault, when taken to task in hearing
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Fraudsters boost senior-care nightmares with ‘audacious’ hospice scams
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Consultants apologize for opioid hype, as pharma payments take more fire
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Federal (dis)services: skipping product inspections and shielding corporations from legal accountability
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Exposure to the bug, not genetics, explains why the coronavirus has hit black and brown communities so hard
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U.S. collars owners’ outlandish claims for flying ’emotional support’ animals
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U.S. long hoped to reduce health spending. Now it’s happened, but it may not be good.
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U.S. drug policy and treatment is shifting, even as opioid crisis surges
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Home cooks get new warnings on burn dangers, as crockpot also is recalled
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Covid-19 pandemic hits a grim U.S. milestone: 100,000+ nursing home deaths
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Coronavirus metrics grim as winter sets in and U.S. awaits political transition
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Heartfelt words from prominent moms on losing their pregnancies
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U.S. health watchdog issues fraud warning about doctors’ speaker programs
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UC offers $73-million settlement in class-action suit over abusive gynecologist
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Even as the pandemic hits grim phase, we have much to be thankful for
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Neglect-and-abuse deaths send nursing homes’ pandemic toll from bad to worse
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Gynecologist guilty on U.S. charges, but questions linger about his practices
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Grim reprise in nursing homes: four-fold infection hike and doubling deaths
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Americans urged to redouble infection preventions as pandemic rips nation
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Weary justices skeptical about GOP plan for high court to kill Obamacare
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Patients finally gaining new access to medical records and doctors’ notes
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Caregiver staffing a key issue in shielding vulnerable in nursing facilities and in their own homes
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D.C. voters join a growing push to reconsider use of hallucinogenic drugs
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As nation focused on vote tallies, coronavirus cases and deaths kept soaring
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Colorectal screening may need to start at age 45, U.S. panel advises
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As virus burned through nursing homes, inspectors cleared most of infection violations
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Will covid-stressed health providers ever account for U.S. aid and high costs?
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Optimize November: Vote with care, plan holidays, scrutinize health coverage
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As traffic resumes its crush, look out for big and little concerns on the road
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Vulnerable, especially in nursing homes, unsafe in covid’s community spread
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$8.3 billion in opioid fines but no criminal charges for execs and family owners
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‘Turning a corner’ on pandemic? The hard numbers disagree.
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For nursing homes, a quarter lack PPE, half have infected staff, study finds
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It was avoidable. Its harms can be lessened. Fall’s Covid surge is under way.
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Virginia gynecologist’s fraud trial surfaces hundreds of mistreatment claims
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Centuries of restraint fall: Top journals assail Trump’s science denialism
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The health insurance mess: Worker costs jump anew, as kids’ coverage falls
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Will plutocrats pay $3 billion to keep $13 billion and elude opioid charges?
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Nevada offers key lessons in challenge to U.S. virus tests for nursing homes
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Infection doesn’t deter President from tub-thumping for yet another unproven drug
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Prosecutors, pandemic or no, crack down on billions in health care frauds
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House Democrats rip Big Pharma execs over prescription drug price-gouging
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Government indicts malpractice lawyer for allegedly trying to extort millions from Baltimore hospital
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Maryland adds testing and leads area in allowing nursing homes to re-open
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McConnell push for immunity from lawsuits would protect big insurers, not small businesses
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Unchecked Covid-19 pandemic gives U.S. a new reason to hold its breath
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In the midst of a crisis, Trump administration throws billions at giveaways to favored political targets
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For stressed-out patients, yet more and tougher warnings about ‘benzos’
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Senate Democrats rip White House and GOP for inaction on nursing homes
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City Council approves package of measures to increase safety of DC streets
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Nursing homes’ continuing crisis inflicts big toll on residents with dementia
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As D.C. Council considers more scooter laws, is it time to require helmets?
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Here are 7 big reasons why Americans should worry a lot about health care
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White House infects Covid-19 battle with yet more potent doses of politics
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Nursing homes failing to fix well-known infection-control fundamentals
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Opioid crisis worsens during pandemic, and vaping shrinks to its hard-core
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With speeding vaccine clinical trials, a pause that may prove reassuring
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A viral confession: ‘This is deadly stuff … I wanted to always play it down.’
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California, calling drug price rises unbearable, leaps into making generics
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As fans miss fall games, experts see decline in kids’ ER visits for head harms
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Federal pandemic response marked by yet more uproars and confusion
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Many Maryland nursing homes fined in state’s pandemic-related check-up
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A gut check in an acclaimed actor’s sad death and a leader’s abrupt resignation
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With conventions over, who will support or tear down crucial health supports?
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As White House gets its way, CDC and FDA chiefs shred their agencies’ credibility
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Maryland inspects 226 nursing homes and slaps three with six-figure fines
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Pandemic prompts more focus on junk foods, shots, domestic abuse, booze
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Ethics clarity would benefit D.C. deal for new hospitals for underserved wards
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Nursing homes, still coping poorly with Covid-19, turn to lobbyists to shield them from legal accountability
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Are kids wrong in describing the pandemic school chaos as a ‘cluster …’ ?
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Loneliness and fear taking big toll on locked down elderly, sick, and injured
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Surgeons prosper anew as primary care doctors and pediatricians struggle
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Big Pharma is laying out big cash to try to paint election results red
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With as many as 200,000 U.S. dead already, grimmer days may still be ahead
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U.S. showered sketchy nursing homes with millions in Covid emergency aid
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Missouri the latest state to show big backing for Medicaid and Obamacare
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As world takes note of historic nuclear horrors, U.S. Covid carnage surges on
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With 18 billion reasons to doubt Big Pharma, president’s fiats seem iffy, too
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The big Alzheimer’s puzzle: Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV. Blood, too?
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Time for nursing homes to pay for staff tests, Maryland and other states say
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VA ripped for ER abuse of suicidal vet and ‘Covid cocktail’ at state homes
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With Covid-19 surge unchecked, testing, tracing, and key data teetering, too
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Road toll, gun violence, heat risks, pesky skeeters — yipes, the perils abound
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Patients to hospitals: Please quit, already, with the grubbing for donations
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As stakes soar for Covid-19 vaccine, concerns rise about this one big bet
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600 of 15,000 nursing homes get gear as U.S. demands virus tests for staff
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Video evidence casts harsh light on authorities’ use of excessive force
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VA hospital care under fire again after aide pleads to killing seven patients in West Virginia
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57,000 reasons why U.S. needs to fire the top U.S. nursing home watchdog
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Maryland malpractice case gives a reminder about the ugly underside of secrecy in our public courts
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The doctor is in. Still. For now. But science denial and the pandemic rage on …
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Lung-cancer test may be advisable for more smokers and quitters, experts say
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Big Pharma’s pandemic response: Jack up drug prices, set up big vaccine bill
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Aged, ill, and injured get shabby treatment at ‘care’ facilities across country
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As Covid-19 infections soar and deaths rise, should kids go back to school?
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For Big Pharma, a $648M bribery settlement and heat over anti-viral’s price
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Opioid abuse and overdoses surge anew, worsened by Covid-19 pandemic
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Concerns spike as police seek to medicalize tactics that end in arrest deaths
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With half of a terrible ’20 now done, can federal torpor on pandemic change?
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Nursing homes ‘dumping’ residents and defying ordered safeguards
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As J&J ‘trims’ talc loss to $2.1 billion, Bayer sees $10-billion-plus Roundup fix
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GOP keeps insisting on a health care showdown. Voters may give it to them.
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Some thoughts about Independence Day in the thrall of a pandemic
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They’re called ‘nursing’ homes. But what medical care can they really offer?
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New twists with job-related health coverage for unemployed and vulnerable
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Concern rises over bias in race-based algorithms for medical decision-making
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Details build on authorities’ brutal use of ‘less lethal’ projectiles and tear gas
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Potomac River tragedies offer warning about summer water safety hazards
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With viral risks, a new chance to weigh in on obesity, diet and exercise
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Two million-plus reasons why the U.S. cannot falter in battling Covid-19
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Why does lethal bungling persist in fixing the Covid-19 nursing-home mess?
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As virus restrictions ease, MDs and hospitals urge patients to resume care
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Pillars of medical establishment wobbling under pandemic’s big stresses
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U.S. data show Covid-19’s terrible and unrelenting toll on nursing homes
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Saying a big ‘No!’ to racism, excessive police force, and health disparities
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Here’s another kind of needed safety distancing — with scooters and bikes
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As world focuses on Covid, Bayer pushes billions in Roundup settlements
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With U.S. virus response, taxpayers may need to keep demanding: Who benefits?
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Nursing homes, Covid-19 hot spots now, resisted emergency planning rules
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Buyer beware: J&J pulls its baby powder, as officials warn about vapeware
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Health disparities, laid bare by the virus, lead to loss of both lives and limbs.
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Officials’ shiftiness in pandemic response fuels public confusion and concern
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Human fault or act of nature in coronavirus’s deadly assault on nursing homes?
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Even with coronavirus lockdowns, reckless driving and violent attacks abound
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Virus may upend hospitals’ finances, but not dubious Big Pharma behavior
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Tough choices loom for all of us as states ease public-health restrictions
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As nursing home toll rises, many U.S. and state responses fall to new lows
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Researchers digging in to discover how novel coronavirus affects youngsters
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Ohio State Buckeyes will pay $41 million to settle some claims over twisted team doctor
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New hospitals may offer hope to D.C.’s poor, minority areas as Covid-19 rages
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U.S. botched testing. What about the next steps to fight Covid-19: tracing and isolating?
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Nursing homes across region failed to protect residents from Covid-19’s toll
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Bookmark deep digs into what’s next with Covid-19 and its impact on medicine
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Hope and skepticism go hand-in-hand with vital measures in Covid-19 battle
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When the fringe drives pandemic response, it’s not funny. It’s dangerous.
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Politicians seek a 100% immunity in coronavirus — from lawsuits seeking justice
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Guns, pot, booze, and ‘benzos’: Big concerns in the pandemic’s home stays
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Why allow authoritarians to silence MDs and nurses in midst of health crisis?
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It’s past time for full disclosure about the Covid-19 nursing home nightmares
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In war on a novel virus, declarations of a turning point in 30 days. Really?
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Celebrity doctors are shoveling loads of unfounded Covid-19 nonsense
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Haste to find disease remedies can lay waste to patient safety, history warns
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For doctors and patients, worries are rising about pandemic-delayed treatments for other conditions
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U.S. is steering blindly due to dearth of desperately needed Covid-19 tests
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Corporations love forced arbitration. Innovators hope to make them fear it.
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Pandemic and joblessness expose big problems in one health basic: food supplies
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What we know about Covid-19’s harms may help point out our next steps
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News gets worse on Covid-19’s grim toll in facilities caring for the elderly
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Global vaping snub suggests other nations are learning from United States’ bad example
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Zantac warnings offered early hint of big problems with Big Pharma practices
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With U.S. joblessness spiking, Obamacare once again stays front and center
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Rethinking end-of-life plans and nursing home care for ourselves and loved ones
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Child safety group assails U.S. consumer products agency for lax oversight
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Corporate titans faulted for playing dubious roles in opioid-overdose crisis
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With pandemic straining U.S. health care, what did ACA get done in a decade?
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As virus slams U.S., courage and valor are on display — but some not-so-great behavior too
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With youngsters ages 10 to 14, a tragic and scary spike in suicides
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For 70+ women and their MDs, more reasons to rethink routine mammograms
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Trump storms into medical-ethics minefield by flogging drugs’ untested use
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As pandemic grips the globe, outbreaks, too, of ‘What were they thinking?’
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Alcoholics Anonymous can benefit many with drinking problems, research finds
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Don’t fall for malpractice malarkey: A briefing details medicine’s many harms
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Patients get rule-making boost to access and use important medical records
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Life grinds to a halt as Americans start to deal with gravity of Covid-19 spread
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Trump’s pick as top consumer product watchdog? Chemical industry insider
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High court, for third time, takes up a GOP effort to kill popular Obamacare
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All U.S. adults are urged to get hepatitis C test, as opioid crisis-infections spike
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As virus spreads, concerns surge about testing, hospitals, and nursing homes
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Routine cognitive tests for seniors? Not for now, blue-ribbon panel advises
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At the VA, concerns increasing about top leadership and outside meddling
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Drug maker to pay $1.6 billion to settle claims over its big role in opioids crisis
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Covid-19 shifts from health menace to a political and economic nightmare, too.
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For seniors, harsh realities about dying at home, dementia drugs, and job harms
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That $ —.99 sale isn’t a deal. ‘Left-digit bias’ isn’t great for health care, either.
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Fight against virus focuses on global clusters
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University of Michigan doctor accused of decades of sexual misconduct
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Safety roundup: New cautions on headlights, off-road vehicles, and groceries and food recalls
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Will voters buy $1 trillion in U.S. health care cuts, as ’21 budget proposes?
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When organs get shipped as cargo, delays and losses become disastrous
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Battle may be in new phase against the virus now named Covid19
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Federal regulators stumble with vaping, social media, talc, and kids car seats
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A top U.S. health official can’t get his. Which is why we need records reforms.
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Crucial doctor-patient relationships showing distressing signs of fraying
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As coronavirus pummels China, concern rises about U.S. health care supplies
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Deceptive software pushed MDs to prescribe opioids at overdose crisis’ peak
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With U.S. health care costs sky-high, why gouge programs to help vulnerable?
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Calif. wins $344M mesh case, but $215M may not settle harmed gymnasts’ suit
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As coronavirus spreads, aggressive safeguards — not panic — should, too
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Here’s why the U.S. surgeon general and WHO want smokers to quit, asap
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They’re not just ‘headaches.’ Traumatic brain injuries are real. And serious.
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California, Big Blues, and hospitals join the attack on sky-high drug prices
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A cause for global concern: an exploding viral outbreak in central China
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While policy makers engage in food fights, kids are getting fed dubious eats
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Yes, you may suffer heart disease, even in the most fitness-fanatical state of the union
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FDA reviews go faster — but with less proof drugs are safer or more effective
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On MLK Day, never forget his view: ‘Injustice in health is the most shocking …’
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Critics may howl. But with stubborn wrongs, big settlements may be necessary
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Spiking death rate a harsh reminder of alcohol’s risks, especially for women
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Good news on cancer shows why the battle against smoking matters. A lot.
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Here’s a cause for anger and despair: We’re all forced to pay $8,000 ‘health tax’
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Need simple, clear, and direct ideas to be healthier? Heed these 48 words
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Hospital mergers and acquisitions aren’t great for patients’ care, study finds
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A caution about rising hype for artificial intelligence in medicine
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With teens’ health at risk, White House plays politics with vaping
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A patient’s painful and powerful reminder of harms inflicted by drug diversions
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Here’s something as frightful as the weather outside: winter weight gain
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Some Grinch-y news about a few popular holiday gifts
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Big cash gives Big Pharma and device makers a dubious sway over doctors
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U.S. to require vapers and smokers to be at least age 21 to buy tobacco in any form
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New warnings on how Rx and illicit drugs can be deadly, especially if mixed
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While kids suffered harms, consumer agency cozied up to corporations
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GOP lawsuit hasn’t shoved health care off a cliff — not yet. But ACA in limbo helps nobody.
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