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Many Individual Health Policies Fall Short, a Study Says
Researchers found that employer-provided insurance is likely to continue to be more generous even if the new health care law is upheld.
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Gains in Health System Seen as Lasting by Some
The new health care law has improved the system for patients, and those gains will survive any Supreme Court decision, some Democratic officials said.
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Direct Primary Care Providers Lower Cost of Concierge Services
Direct primary care providers, which were once most associated with concierge health services for the rich, are reaching out to small businesses and the working class.
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Katie Beckett, Who Inspired Health Reform, Dies at 34
Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, called Ms. Beckett ?an inadvertent pioneer in the civil rights movement for people with disabilities.?
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Catholics File Suits on Contraceptive Coverage
Forty-three groups are challenging the Obama administration?s rule that employees receive health insurance coverage for contraception.
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A Long View on Health Care: Think Like an Investor
A conversation with the economist Dana Goldman, who believes that prevention should drive health care reimbursement.
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Army to Review Its Psychiatric Evaluation Process
Congress put pressure on the military after hearing complaints about reversed diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Global Update: Fake and Substandard Drugs Grow as Threat to Fight Malaria
About a third of the drug samples from Southeast Asia and Africa failed in testing, according to a report by an American agency.
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F.D.A. Panel Backs Easier Home H.I.V. Test
An advisory body recommended that the Food and Drug Administration approve the OraQuick test, which uses a mouth swab to give a result in 20 minutes.
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Romney Medicare Plan Draws Stark Contrast With Obama?s
Mitt Romney says President Obama has no workable plan to prevent Medicare from going bankrupt, and that he is offering ?a dramatic change in perspective and philosophy.?
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News Analysis: Taking Truvada to Prevent H.I.V. Also Comes With Risks
Taking Truvada daily can help people in at-risk groups prevent H.I.V. infection, but the consequences of loose adherence go beyond contracting the virus.
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Whooping Cough Epidemic Hits Washington State
Efforts in Washington State to address a resurgent childhood ailment have been hobbled by years of recession-induced budget cuts that have hollowed out public health departments.
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Economic View: Slippery-Slope Logic vs. Health Care Law - Economic View
The court debate over the new health care law offers yet another example of worrying about imaginary risks.
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Finding a Match and a Mission, to Help Blacks Battle Cancers
Seun Adebiyi launched Nigeria?s national bone-marrow registry, a potential lifesaver for black cancer patients, after experiencing firsthand the difficulty of finding donors for those of African descent.
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Diet Drug Wins Approval of F.D.A. Advisers
Government advisers recommended that the F.D.A. approve the weight-loss drug lorcaserin.
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F.D.A. Panel Backs Preventive Use of H.I.V. Drug Truvada
With 50,000 new H.I.V. cases each year in the United States, government advisers said Truvada, an antiviral medicine, should be approved for use in healthy people at high risk of infection.
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Dialysis Rule Changes Followed by Transfusion Increases
A shift by the federal government in how it pays for drugs for dialysis patients may have had an unintended and potentially dire consequence, researchers say.
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Christie Vetoes Health Insurance Exchange for New Jersey
In rejecting the online marketplace, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey cited a pending Supreme Court challenge to the Affordable Care Act, but his move was largely symbolic.
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Well: New Cautions About Bisphosphonates
The Food and Drug Administration published an analysis that suggested caution against long-term use of the drugs, but fell short of issuing specific recommendations.
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Pfizer?s Rheumatoid Arthritis Pill Wins Federal Panel?s Approval
A federal advisory panel recommended approval of a rheumatoid arthritis pill known as tofacitinib, but several members expressed concern about its safety.
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Senate Panel to Examine Painkiller Makers? Financial Ties
The inquiry is studying financial ties between producers of prescription painkillers and pain experts, patient advocacy groups and organizations that set guidelines on use.
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D.S.M. Panel Backs Down on Diagnoses
In a rare step, doctors revising psychiatry?s diagnostic manual have retreated from two controversial proposals that would have expanded the number of people identified as having psychotic or depressive disorders.
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Signs of Support as Cuomo Outlines Agency for Disabled Care
Politicians from both parties, and even labor, expressed openness to an agency to fight abuse of disabled patients.
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House Bill Offers Aid Cuts to Save Military Spending
A final House vote this Thursday amounts to a Republican bet that voters will reward the party for its tough-love priorities on spending.
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Connecticut Passes a Marijuana Bill
The Connecticut Senate passed a bill on Saturday legalizing the use of marijuana for medical purposes, with tight restrictions.
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Obama Concedes That Courts Can Review Acts of Congress
A federal appeals court had demanded that the administration explain the president?s remarks about judicial review of the health care overhaul.
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Republicans Examine Alternatives to Obama Health Plan
Optimistic about a possible Supreme Court ruling against the law, lawmakers are giving past proposals a second look, with lowering health costs a priority.
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In Hopeful Sign, Health Spending Is Flattening Out
The slowing of the growth rate is partly explained by the recession, but evidence suggests that changes in the behavior of health care providers and consumers also partly account for it.
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Doctor and Patient: Doctor and Patient: Medical Error and Its Aftermath
"Love Alone," a new play at the Trinity Rep in Providence, R.I., breaks the mold of the medical melodrama in its portrayal of the consequences of a devastating medical mistake.
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Well: Taking Calcium May Pose Heart Risks
In a large European study, people who were taking calcium supplements had nearly a 30 percent greater risk of heart attack over four years than those who were not.
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Life, Interrupted: The Beat Goes On
Oncology wards, more than anywhere else I know, are musicless places. But on one special day, my friends in the Stay Human Band brought music to my hospital room, writes Suleika Jaouad.
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Well: The Raw Meat Diet for Pets
A vocal minority of pet food owners are willing to pay a premium for raw pets foods, believing they are healthier for their dogs and cats than commercially prepared foods.
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Phys Ed: Phys Ed: Are Marathons Bad for the Heart?
The death from heart attack of the ultramarathoner Micah True has raised awareness about the safety of marathon racing and training. But the science suggests that distance running and racing are extremely unlikely to kill you -- except when, in rare instances, they do.
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Ina May Gaskin and the Battle for at-Home Births
Ina May Gaskin, the original home-birth evangelist, is finally winning converts in the mainstream.
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The Kabul Hospital That Treats All Sides
There is one hospital in Kabul that treats anyone, from any side, no questions asked. The horrors of the war blow through its doors every day.
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Global Update: AIDS Funds Don?t Detract From Rwanda?s Other Health Goals
The study compared 25 rural Rwandan clinics that offered AIDS treatment with 25 similar clinics that did not.
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Global Update: Pessary Delays Births In Mothers at Risk of Premature Delivery
A study has found that in women at high risk of premature birth, a pessary may delay birth until a newborn has a greater chance of survival.
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Global Update: Donating Used Eyeglasses Is a Poor Use of Resources
A study finds that it would be more effective to send money, since the cost of testing, sorting and shipping used pairs make the effort unfeasible.
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Global Update: Assessing Disease Risks at London?s Summer Olympics
Disease outbreaks should be monitored in cities with a lot of air travel to London as the Summer Games approach, authors in The Lancet Infectious Diseases say.
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Global Update: Dengue Virus May Make Mosquitoes Thirstier for Human Blood
Dengue virus appears to make the insects? antennae more sensitive to odors ? making them better at hunting humans, the virus?s only known mammalian host.
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Op-Docs: For the Uninsured, the Wait for Health Care
A composite day in the life of patients at Highland Hospital in Oakland, Calif.
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Op-Ed Contributor: A Judge?s Plea for Medical Marijuana
For cancer patients, marijuana is a medical and a human rights issue. New York should pass the medical marijuana bill this year.
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HEALTH: In Remission and on a Mission
Seun Adebiyi ? an Olympic hopeful, Yale Law School graduate and leukemia survivor ? is trying to start a public cord-blood bank in Nigeria.
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The New Old Age Blog: Managing Care Online
Caregivers are looking to the Web to help coordinate care for ailing family members.
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The New Old Age Blog: L.B.J. Was Wrong
As many as one-third of the elderly die owing more in medical fees than they have in assets, according to a new study.
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The New Old Age Blog: Revived by Music
A documentary director and a social worker hatch a new idea: personalized music for every nursing home resident.
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