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WEDNESDAY, April 15, 2015 (HealthDay News) — A 65-year-old breast cancer patient ran into an unexpected problem with her bank: She was denied a transaction ...

By Victoria H. Johnson and Edward J. Cyran On February 3, 2015, the authority of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to deny ...

WEDNESDAY, April 15, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Delays in diagnosing and treating autism often occur when doctors ignore parents’ concerns about their child’s early development, ...

By Alan Mozes, HealthDay (HealthDay News) — Many college students send or receive text messages more than 100 times each day and at the most inappropriate times ...

Medicare’s troubled physician payment formula will soon be history. As expected, the Senate Tuesday night easily passed legislation to scrap the formula, accepting a bipartisan ...

By Dennis Thompson, HealthDay TUESDAY, April 14, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Drinkers who smoke marijuana as they imbibe are twice as likely to drive drunk compared with ...

Medicine has changed a lot in the past 100 years. But medical training has not. Until now.  Spurred on by the need to train a ...

By Tara Haelle, HealthDay MONDAY, April 13, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Seeing actors drink alcohol in movies seems to increase the likelihood that teens will drink and ...