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By Joseph M. Gorrell Opioid abuse is becoming epidemic in the U.S., with more than 90 people dying each day of overdoses. A significant factor ...

By H.G. McKinnis In my early twenties, I lived with a hoarder I’ll call Mae. When I moved in, I saw she had loads of stuff, and I knew instantly ...

By Laurie Udesky Allen Barron scrunches up his tiny face and wails as his mother gently tips him backward onto the lap of Jean Calvo, a ...

The incidence of sudden cardiac arrest, an often deadly loss of heart function, declined significantly among previously uninsured adults who acquired health insurance through the ...

By Chad Terhune Among all the reasons for rising health insurance premiums, this one might be the most obscure: A long-term care insurer in Pennsylvania ...

By Jay Hancock As a drug salesman, Mike Courtney worked hard to make health care expensive. He wined and dined doctors, golfed with them and ...

By Liz Szabo In the past four years, Bruce Mead-e has undergone two major surgeries, multiple rounds of radiation and chemotherapy to treat his lung ...

Chest pain patients in the emergency department whose attending emergency physicians received lab results delivered direct to their smartphones spent about 26 minutes less waiting ...

By Steven Findlay Tameka Henry takes care of her disabled husband, her 87-year-old grandfather and her four children, ages 10 to 16. Two of her ...

By Julie Rovner So the Senate has voted to start debate on a bill to replace the Affordable Care Act. Now what? Well, it gets ...