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By Roni Caryn Rabin Saying that electronic health records distract doctors, take time away from care and make physicians less productive, an influential doctors’ group called ...

By JULIE APPLEBY When Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield became embroiled in a contract dispute with Exeter Hospital in N.H. in 2010, its negotiators came ...

By DAVID B. MANDELL and JASON M. O’DELL As advisors to physicians throughout the country, we are often asked to help doctors to protect assets ...

By MATT SEDENSKY WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — Americans suffer needless discomfort and undergo unwanted and costly care as they die, in part because ...

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A nonpartisan congressional agency is raising new questions about compliance with a key compromise on abortion that ...

By Alan Lyndon Apple’s plan to move into the healthcare market became a little clearer today.  Reuters reported that Stanford and Duke will host medical ...

By RON HOWRIGON It’s no secret that the healthcare system in this country needs to go on a diet when it comes to costs. Currently, ...

By HANNAH DREIER CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s chronic shortages have begun to encroach on a cultural cornerstone: the boob job. Beauty-obsessed Venezuelans face a ...

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Texas asked a federal appeals court Friday to allow the state to immediately enforce a law requiring all ...

By Susan Jaffe An increasing number of seniors who spend time in the hospital are surprised to learn that they were not “admitted” patients — even ...