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By Brad Broker This is an unfortunate and real case study of medical ethics and basic morality.  Crystal Kelley was hired by a couple to ...

By Michael McKenna, MD Under health care reform, every hospital and health system is under the gun to deliver care more efficiently and cost-effectively. While ...

By Alan Lyndon States with the highest amount of gun laws have the lowest amount of gun-related deaths, according to a new study published in ...

By Brad Broker Two separate studies have been published advancing the health benefits of video games.  In the first study, playing action video games specifically ...

By Alan Lyndon “Anybody there can do CPR. Give them the phone, please. … This woman’s not breathing enough. She’s going to die if we ...

By Jordan Rau Kaiser Health News A panel convened by a major medical group is recommending that Medicare heal its physician payment shortfalls with “drastic ...

By Mary Agnes Carey Kaiser Health News Doctors serving Medicare patients. Scientists looking for a better way to treat diabetes. HIV patients who can’t afford to ...

More than 100,000 people have joined a fast-growing campaign asking the insurance giant Coventry Health Care to cover a life-changing surgery for 5-year-old Carson Rubin. Carson was ...

By Ankita Rao, Kaiser Health News Last year Dr. Michael Nusbaum introduced a mobile application in an effort to make scheduling a medical appointment as ...

By Mary Agnes Carey, Kaiser Health News The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee made clear Tuesday that finding a solution to the vexing ...