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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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Intoxicated drivers keep killing too many. New, targeted tactics may be needed.
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When those medical bill slips and errors add up, honestly, isn’t it just fraud?
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As Americans struggle with soaring medical costs, top health officials bicker over their expense reports
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Active duty military personnel near a small win on medical malpractice claims
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How does science advance on brain injuries? One star’s grim diagnosis at a time.
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Top experts, by failing to disclose conflicts of interest, shortchange taxpayers
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Hospitals’ preventable patient deaths add to big concerns in mental health care
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Investigations rip FDA for laxity on asbestos-tainted talc and medical devices
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Samoa, a Pacific speck, provides a big and sad lesson about vaccinations
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As life expectancy and fertility rates decline, health politics more key than ever
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Grim way to increase nursing home profit: Toss out frail seniors and disabled
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With new heat on THC and CBD use, will zeal for marijuana keep growing?
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Virginia hospital assailed for seeking court actions to strip patients of decisions on care
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On the road, in the kitchen, at the table — have a safe, healthy holiday!
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Ignore doctors’ malpractice claims history? The U.S. did. 66 patients died. It cost $55 million.
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On vaping, gun violence, and health insurance, the big talk flows, but action, not so much
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For safety’s sake: Pedestrians, put down the phone! Bikers, put on the helmet!
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U.S. orders price postings in hopes of curbing hospitals’ trillion-dollar costs
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Superbugs’ deadly rise has plunged planet into risky ‘post-antibiotic’ era
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Drugs are better for heart patients than surgery (except in mid-heart attack), study finds
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13 million and one reasons why simultaneous operations should be barred
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Big Pharma under fire over quality, safety, and patents on costly brand drugs
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New doubts cast on a key safety tool: police roadside alcohol-testing devices
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Hospital tries to stick ER nurse with $1 million in debt for her preemie’s care
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‘Any One of Us’ shows harsh realities and hope for spinal cord injury patients
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Heart failure deaths spike as nation ages and diabetes and obesity abound
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Secrecy in drug and medical device lawsuits can imperil patients, experts say
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Raging wildfires and major power shutoffs: Big tests in Calif. raise questions for the rest of us
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Too many spoons full of sugar going down in kids’ drinks
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For patients, a glimpse into data on the quality and safety of surgery centers
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Who will step up to deal with dementia and Alzheimer’s?
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As FDA warns of implant perils, new questions arise about 3D mammograms
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Lawmakers order schools to give teens more time for California dreaming
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Seniors are getting urine over-tested and joints over-injected
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Caveat emptor: It’s not only an open season ‘for’ but also ‘on’ health coverage
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Billions from landmark opioids case? It’d be just a start in dealing with crisis
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Flu shot urgency rises with warnings from Down Under and vaping illnesses
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Get ready, Washingtonians — 20,000 scooters soon may be part of cityscape
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In U.S. health care, experts assail $1 trillion-plus in waste, fraud and abuse
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$8 billion Risperdal verdict? It’s not the money, it’s the message, Big Pharma
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Vulnerable nursing home residents face yet another hazard: sickening food
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Safety concerns grow over cars’ high-tech braking and summoning features
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FDA oversight looks shaky with drug recalls, rising vaping deaths and injuries
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Where’s the beef? Experts chew on meat-eating: Bad for you, unknown, or what?
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With data and disclosures, experts, families, and friends battle suicide’s toll
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Health insurance? It’s now about the price of a new car each year.
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Health care plagued by cases of a persistent pathology — unmitigated gall
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Is Sanders’ plan to erase $81 billion in U.S. medical debt really all that crazy?
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A toast to clear and simple advice: Parents, it’s just milk and water for the kids
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While it’s still warm and sunny, saunter in for that annual flu shot
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Administration actions give us all plenty of reasons to not breathe easy
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It’s a season to get ripe view of money-grasping Big Pharma and plutocrats
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Nursing homes and long-term care facilities may be infection ‘cauldrons’
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There hospitals go again: UVA Health backpedals on draconian debt collection
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With GOP still tearing at ACA, uninsured rate rises for first time in decade
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Trump administration now seeks to vaporize vaping, banning candy flavorings
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Home care for the aged has become a quiet calamity for all involved
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Go figure: In era of Big Data, numbers and statistics still bedevil medicine
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Consumers blame, shame and prod corporations to win health safeguards
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As deaths and lung damage cases rise, isn’t it clear that vaping is unhealthy?
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Europe is seeing a ‘dramatic resurgence’ of measles, and the U.S. may not be far behind
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Let’s put a halt to this killer traffic trend: Blown red lights rise by 31%
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Transplant patient’s nightmares illustrate why patients fear and loathe medical bills
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Big Pharma flinches in opioids suits: a J&J loss in Okla. and a Sackler bid
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When young adults outgrow their pediatricians, tough life lessons may follow
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U.S. task force refines guidelines for women’s genetic cancer screening
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For women, medicine can be about miscommunication and mistreatment
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Americans spend billions on illicit and recreational drugs. Their toll is rising.
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To fight smoking and drug abuse, Uncle Sam will try gross images and screenings
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Do health care’s perverse incentives lure MDs into deliberate misdiagnosis for profit?
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Glimmers of hope in new therapies to battle killer Ebola and lethal TB strain
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As NFL talks up lesser head harms, study shows repeated slams injure brains
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Safety concerns more than skin deep with consumer products like sunscreens
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For patients’ sake, U.S. must slap down Big Pharma chiseling on tests, trials
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Would workers really be sad if health insurers didn’t grab a third of their pay?
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Gun violence is a public health crisis. Research and treatment are needed now.
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Another abuse scandal may change ‘The Talk’ with college-bound students
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Loneliness, debilitation, and depression blamed for seniors’ rising suicides
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$14k to treat iron-poor blood? That’s rich. As is politicians’ health care frenzy.
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Defense bill may offer active service personnel a way to win back key rights
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Government watchdog, finding abuse complaints doubled, criticizes nursing home oversight
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Juul denies it’s like Big Tobacco. But it just got caught targeting kids. Again.
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Voluntary recall of textured device raises more alarms about breast implants
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Can lives be saved with lessons learned from a space pioneer’s botched care?
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For patients facing high-risk operations, an alarm on hospital surgical volumes
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Waste, fraud, and abuse? For health insurers, fat profits matter more
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As overdose deaths dip, new outrages disclosed on Big Pharma and opioids
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Rising antibiotic resistance elevates all-too-common UTIs as health concern
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U.S. must boost hospice oversight, watchdog warns, citing serious lapses
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Cutting resident doctors’ hours doesn’t harm quality of patient care, study finds
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Will GOP attack on Obamacare foil good plans to better kidney disease care?
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Taming Big Pharma profiteering is no snap, White House learns in dual defeats
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A harsh reminder of hospital infection risks: outbreaks in areas treating kids
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Critics fear a key watchdog’s decline as FDA eases up its regulatory actions
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53 million Americans suffer ‘second-hand’ harms from booze, study finds
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A $229-million Baltimore malpractice case? It’s worth digging into this news
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San Francisco, Beverly Hills blaze new regulatory path with e-cigarette bans
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Suffering of rural poor a reminder of how much health policy debates matter
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Courts, by too readily sealing records, contributed to opioid crisis, report finds
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Nonprofit hospitals hound patients with draconian debt collections
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‘Grass-roots’ vaccination foes funded by wealthy few
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Concerns rise over costly emergency intervention — a ‘bridge to nowhere?’
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With 2020 race kicking into next gear, voters have lots to ponder on health care
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Opioid crisis? ‘Not my fault,’ say surgeons and drug maker’s heir
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Pleas for ‘wellness’ moderation: Foods aren’t dirty, bad, or a cause for shame
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Is this any way to learn you’re dying — hearing MDs chat outside exam room?
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UCLA ripped for poor handling of another scandal over a staff physician
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For Insys, infamy in two opioid crisis firsts: convicted founder and bankruptcy
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As temperatures rise, so can dangers to kids and pets locked in hot cars
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With seniors, special focus can be beneficial — in tough surgeries and more
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Faith-based charity as the answer to crushing medical debt? Only in America.
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Uncle Sam forced to disclose secret list of 400 poorly performing nursing homes
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In season of higher risk for kids, cautions about mowers and pool chemicals
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Hospitals raise legal concerns by lavishing pay and perks on staff doctors
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Can we avoid getting dopey about hype, use, regulation of dope-derived CBD?
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As doctors warned UNC about heart surgery program, kids kept dying
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FDA’s dubious oversight of heart devices: hidden complaints and shaky tests
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Congress and White House find a bipartisan target in medical bills and prices
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Prescriptions for this painkiller abound. Evidence of its effectiveness doesn’t.
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High court leaves it to Congress to restore service members’ basic rights
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Walmart sees a bigger picture with costly imaging: frequent misdiagnosis
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Generic drugs ensnared in price-fixing and shoddy manufacturing claims
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Preventable hospital deaths’ terrible toll: at least 160,000 lives each year
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Terps draw new fire for staying mostly mum about a fatal viral outbreak
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For cancer patients in online support groups, another grief: illness fakers
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Hospitals rip employer health plans with prices up to 3 times what Uncle Sam pays
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Hundreds of moms die of preventable pregnancy-related complications
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Wave of hip implant, opioid, talc suits tarnish a famed ‘family’ brand
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Modern medicine may be great at making money but not at making sense
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Big Pharma executives convicted of criminal racketeering with opioid sales
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Did FDA just let Big Tobacco put another burn on Americans’ health?
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Bill takes aim at injustice for service personnel hurt by military medical care
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Climate change is worsening air quality, allergies, and Americans’ health
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Middle-class seniors won’t be able to afford assisted care when they need it
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Another front in war on opioids: Criminal charges for Big Pharma execs, MDs
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Measles outbreaks increase, with cases hitting highest level since 2000
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Case by case, constitutional rights are lost to corporations and forced arbitration
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8 billion indicators of how companies flounder with health care costs
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Ph.D. turns to Twitter to rat out too common species of medical research hype
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After thousands of lawsuits, FDA bans mesh used in pelvic prolapse procedures
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Concern grows over seniors taking their own lives in long-term care facilities
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Cost of medical billing soars to half a trillion dollars—and half may be wasted
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Telemarketing “free” back and limb braces for seniors adds up to a $1.2 billion Medicare fraud
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When hospitals battle superbug outbreaks, shouldn’t patients be informed?
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Wheel-dropping strollers and cars ablaze: Watchdog agencies retreat from protecting the public
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FDA battles sketchy stem cell claims, while big hospitals jump into unproven treatments too
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Concern rises about vaccination exemptions, as infectious diseases spread
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With costly medical over-testing, causes can be blurry, solutions complex
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Politicians disconnect from good sense, even as U.S. health care worries soar
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As GOP keeps slashing at health coverage, big strains of caregiving ignored
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$1 billion+ may seem like a lot of money. It still can’t resolve many questions.
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FDA ripped over breast implant safety as agency seeks mammogram change
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5 strikes and you’re not out? Only when you’re sued for bad medical care.
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Doctors retreat on low-dose aspirin advice, underscoring that one size seldom fits all
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Clinicians are facing up to the preventable harms that ICU’s inflict on many patients in the process of saving lives
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In battle for science and against anti-vacciners, experts reckon with social media’s sway
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Electronic records mess threatens patient safety, investigation finds
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Health care has its share of gaming by the deep-pocketed and powerful
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Rise in ‘medieval’ ills and other infections should send a big health warning
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$29 million jury verdict in talc case underscores need for asbestos regulation
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A lesson on vaping from sugary drinks of yore: Crack down on Big Tobacco
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In celebrity death and diagnosis, cautions for all on stroke and cancer
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Bureaucrats let medical device makers hide 1 million reports of patient harms
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For diabetics and dialysis patients, glimmers of better news on costs of care
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With FDA chief gone, doubts rise on battles on nicotine, opioids, drug costs
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Catching up on your sleep this weekend? It doesn’t work, researchers find
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If a news reporter can get named a ‘Top Doctor,’ how do patients find reliable info on good MDs?
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For soaring drug costs and overdoses, officials offer blame and shame
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FDA warns surgeons against experimental robot-aided cancer operations
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Young people have rampant stress, anxiety & depression, plus trouble getting help from adults
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Brokers pocket big bonuses for boosting cost of workplace health insurance
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Doctors, Big Pharma and FDA ripped for bungling control of potent painkillers
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Blood and spit, vampires and dead family secrets
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When Juul won ‘nicotine arms race,’ did it ace out FDA regulatory threats, too?
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Mothers get a big boost for counseling to help with childbirth depression
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Americans rely on health coverage from work. It’s not getting the job done.
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Plain Talk for Seniors: Supplements can’t ‘cure’ Alzheimer’s or cancer, or anything else
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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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