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The new health care bill passed last month by the House would decrease the number of insured Americans by 23 million over 10 years if ...

  By Julie Appleby New York Medicaid regulators aim to use the threat of imposing increased scrutiny of prescription drugs — such as eyeing their ...

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 Phil Galewitz The Trump administration has given states three extra years to carry out plans for helping elderly and disabled people receive Medicaid services ...

By Naomi Anderson The history of medical malpractice and its relation to the law is a lengthy one, spanning back thousands of years. Doctors and ...

By Michael F Myers, MD It is well known that many people are impacted when individuals kill themselves: family members, friends, coworkers, acquaintances, neighbors, to ...

By Phil Galewitz The AARP called the health bill that House Republicans narrowly approved Thursday “deeply flawed” because it would weaken Medicare and lead to higher ...

By Michelle Andrews On an afternoon a few weeks ago, Faithe Craig noticed that her temperature spiked to just above 100 degrees. For most people, the ...