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By Charles Settles The ICD-10 mandate may be delayed another year, but providers and EHR vendors shouldn’t view the reprieve as an opportunity to relax. ...

Patients using medicine to treat high blood pressure, asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were likely to buy cigarettes while filling prescriptions at pharmacies, according ...

By Julie Watson ASSOCIATED PRESS When a Dallas County sheriff’s deputy who had entered the apartment of the first patient to die from Ebola in ...

By Brad Broker Concerned about the growing popularity and use of electronic cigarettes, physicians are calling on the entertainment industry to stop glamorizing and endorsing ...

By Phil Galewitz A new survey finds the public has a lot to learn about how the Ebola virus is transmitted, which could help explain the growing ...

By April Dembosky, KQED Troy and Alana Pack had spent the day at their neighborhood Halloween party in Danville. Ten-year-old Troy went as a baseball player, ...

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Oct. 15, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Malpractice reform may not keep physicians from ordering unnecessary and expensive tests, a practice known ...

By Karen Rizzo, MD Many of us suspected that there would be a day when Ebola would arrive in the United States and indeed it ...

By Emily Schmall and Nomaan Merchant ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS (AP) — A second health care worker at a Dallas hospital who provided care for the ...

By Mark Sherman ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked key parts of a 2013 law in Texas that had closed ...