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By Marilynn Marchione ASSOCIATED PRESS Who survives Ebola and why? Health workers treating patients in Sierra Leone, including some who died doing that work, have ...

By Lisa Gillespie KAISER HEALTH NEWS Family medicine doctors are joining forces to win a bigger role in health care – and be paid for ...

By Alan Lyndon Primary care doctors have a message for all of the potential patients out there: Let us help you! Family Medicine for America’s ...

Patients using medicine to treat high blood pressure, asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were likely to buy cigarettes while filling prescriptions at pharmacies, according ...

By April Dembosky, KQED Troy and Alana Pack had spent the day at their neighborhood Halloween party in Danville. Ten-year-old Troy went as a baseball player, ...

By Anne D’Innocenzio ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart is taking one-stop shopping to another area: health insurance. The world’s largest retailer plans to ...

By JULIE APPLEBY When Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield became embroiled in a contract dispute with Exeter Hospital in N.H. in 2010, its negotiators came ...

By RON HOWRIGON It’s no secret that the healthcare system in this country needs to go on a diet when it comes to costs. Currently, ...

By Mike Stobbe AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Doctors in many U.S. hospitals are unnecessarily prescribing multiple antibiotics for several days when just ...

By Anju Sikka, M.D. A new study shows that changing the way insurers pay for cancer care can lower costs by 34 percent without affecting ...