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(PND) – As the cost of health care rises, insurance companies don’t want to pay the difference any more than the patients or the providers ...

By Nomaan Merchant ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS (AP) — The first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States died Wednesday morning in a Dallas hospital, according ...

By FRED MOGUL, WNYC It was September 2012 and it was life-long smoker Paula Faber’s third cancer in a decade, but she did not hesitate. ...

By MATT SEDENSKY WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — Americans suffer needless discomfort and undergo unwanted and costly care as they die, in part because ...

By Susan Jaffe An increasing number of seniors who spend time in the hospital are surprised to learn that they were not “admitted” patients — even ...

Medicine is a referral business. While some may say online ratings may not be the best place to go shopping for a doctor, it’s really ...

A routine, but highly sensitive, blood test may be able to detect cancer.  Researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine have found a way to ...

By Brad Broker “Missed, wrong, and delayed diagnoses have been underappreciated by internal peer review, autopsy reports, and examination of malpractice claims.” That is according ...

By Richard Amerling, MD Now that Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the law of the land, we need strategies to safeguard the doctor-patient relationship ...