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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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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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