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By Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News Some consumers who use health insurance copays to buy prescription drugs are paying far more than they should be and ...

By Carrie Feibel Abortion is one of the more common procedures performed in the U.S., more common even than appendectomy. But as clinics in Texas close, finding a place ...

A certain type of medical scan can be used to help spare some Hodgkin lymphoma patients from the severe side effects of chemotherapy, a new ...

The U.S. House of Representatives voted this morning in favor of a measure that would allow Veterans Administration doctors to recommend medical marijuana for their patients in ...

By Scott Shapiro, MD Recent data for Pennsylvania shows that 10,394,466 prescriptions for opioid medications were filled by patients in 2015.  In other words, there ...

Veterans are still waiting to see a doctor. Two years ago, vets were waiting a long time for care at Veterans Affairs clinics. At one facility in Phoenix, for ...

Feminine products are having a moment. With some calling for a red wave to take the taboo out of menstruation, politicians across the country are trying to ...

Researchers from Fox Chase Cancer Center and Temple University have developed a cellular programming approach that creates alloreactive T cells that are able to eliminate ...