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By Michelle Andrews KAISER HEALTH NEWS In the past year, new hepatitis C drugs that promise higher cure rates and fewer side effects have given ...

By Brad Broker Brittany Maynard, the terminally-ill woman who moved to Oregon to legally take her own life under the state’s Death with Dignity Act, ...

By Brad Broker Should travelers returning from Ebola-stricken countries be subjected to a mandatory quarantine? New Jersey, New York and several other states say yes. ...

As Halloween approaches, so does encouraging news regarding memory loss and chocolate. A small study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience has found that natural memory loss ...

(PND) – As the cost of health care rises, insurance companies don’t want to pay the difference any more than the patients or the providers ...

By Lisa Gillespie KAISER HEALTH NEWS Family medicine doctors are joining forces to win a bigger role in health care – and be paid for ...

By Marilynn Marchione AP Chief Medical Writer Starting Monday, millions of people who have avoided colon cancer screening can get a new home test that’s ...

By Alan Lyndon Primary care doctors have a message for all of the potential patients out there: Let us help you! Family Medicine for America’s ...

By Michelle Andrews KAISER HEALTH NEWS Take a break from worrying about Ebola and get a flu shot this fall. While the Ebola virus has ...

By Jonathan Lemire ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — A doctor who became New York City’s first Ebola patient was praised for getting treatment immediately ...