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Medicare paid at least $1.5 billion over a decade to replace seven types of defective heart devices, a government watchdog says. The devices apparently failed ...

“The cost of medicine in this country is outrageous,” President Donald Trump said at a rally in Louisville, Ky., two months after his inauguration. He ...

About 20 veterans commit suicide every day. The primary enemy most veterans face after service is not war-related trauma but loneliness, according to a new ...

By Alan Lyndon Many of the nation’s medical associations were glad to see the end of the Graham-Cassidy health care legislation, which sought to repeal and ...

By Fran Kritz Seven-year-old Quinn Gerlach got a gift certificate from his grandpa a few years back — not for a toy, a book or ...

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez When Crawford Clay discovered blood on his shorts at the end a routine run in the spring of 2014, he did ...

As part of its program aimed at educating physicians and other health care professionals on the benefits and limitations of genomics and precision medicine, the ...

By Laurie E. Ingwersen When planning for retirement, you are likely familiar with IRAs, 401(k)s and pension plans as the traditional path to retirement savings. But ...