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By Chad Terhune Among all the reasons for rising health insurance premiums, this one might be the most obscure: A long-term care insurer in Pennsylvania ...
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Colon Cancer Rates Rising Among Younger White Adults
By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez When Crawford Clay discovered blood on his shorts at the end a routine run in the spring of 2014, he did ...
Read More »Paid Family And Medical Leave May Be The Idea That Transcends Politics
By Steven Findlay Tameka Henry takes care of her disabled husband, her 87-year-old grandfather and her four children, ages 10 to 16. Two of her ...
Read More »Who Knew Senate Health Bill Debate Could Be So Complicated?
By Julie Rovner So the Senate has voted to start debate on a bill to replace the Affordable Care Act. Now what? Well, it gets ...
Read More »AMA Urges Congress to Reject Efforts to ‘Repeal and Replace’ Obamacare
The American Medical Association (AMA) today outlined its opposition to current efforts in the U.S. Senate aimed at replacing or repealing the Affordable Care Act, ...
Read More »New Online Education Helps Docs Interpret Cancer Panel Testing
As part of its program aimed at educating physicians and other health care professionals on the benefits and limitations of genomics and precision medicine, the ...
Read More »Medicare Issues Update of Physician Fee Schedule
The American Medical Association (AMA) responded today to policies outlined last week in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) physician fee schedule proposed ...
Read More »The Case for Scrupulous Documentation when Prescribing Opioids
By Joseph M. Gorrell Opioid abuse is becoming epidemic in the U.S., with more than 90 people dying each day of overdoses. A significant factor ...
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