Nurse practitioner Martha Brinsko helps a lot of patients manage their diabetes at the Charlotte Community Health Clinic in North Carolina. “Most mornings when you check your ...
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On a recent trip to Chicago, Patti Broyles felt like she was looking at the world from the bottom of a fish bowl. “This weather ...
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Free means free. The Obama administration said Monday that health plans must offer for free at least one of every type of prescription birth control — ...
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Requiring patients to get blood work and other tests before undergoing cataract surgery hasn’t been recommended for more than a dozen years. There’s good reason ...
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By Victoria H. Johnson and Edward J. Cyran On February 3, 2015, the authority of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to deny ...
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Medicare’s troubled physician payment formula will soon be history. As expected, the Senate Tuesday night easily passed legislation to scrap the formula, accepting a bipartisan ...
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By Amy Norton, HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, March 30, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Random drug testing in schools may sound like a good way to keep kids off ...
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HARRISBURG, PA – While many states have pushed for new laws to legalize the use of marijuana for medical reasons, there are few well-controlled studies ...
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By Mary Agnes Carey With a deadline fast approaching, bipartisan negotiations are heating up in the House to find a permanent replacement for Medicare’s physician payment formula. But the tentative ...
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THURSDAY, March 12, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Raising the legal age to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21 would save hundreds of thousands of ...
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