Don’t Catch What Ails Your House

It doesn’t take a flood to encourage the growth of mold in a home. A moist environment will do. A runny nose, coughing and all the rest typically follow.
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Don’t Catch What Ails Your House

AMA proposes Medicare pay for end-of-life counseling

The American Medical Association has proposed a new Medicare billing code for physicians who provide counseling for patients who want to write end-of-life directives, the New York Times reports.
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AMA proposes Medicare pay for end-of-life counseling

Skin Problems — Doctors On Call WVU Healthcare and WV Public TV

Skin problem, from common rashes to wrinkles and cancer, affect millions of Americans. Two experts answer questions about skin problems on this episode of Do…

Skin Problems — Doctors On Call WVU Healthcare and WV Public TV

CMS offers holiday sale on audit appeals

In a pre-Labor Day weekend bid to lower its backlog of contentious payment disputes, the CMS late Friday offered to pay hospitals 68% of all medical claims appealed by the service providers after having been rejected by outside auditors.
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CMS offers holiday sale on audit appeals

In Plastics and Cans, a Threat to Women

BPA worries scientists for a number of reasons, but evidence is gathering for one concern in particular: infertility.
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In Plastics and Cans, a Threat to Women

Fixing the Wrong Healthcare Problems - PT. 2/2

If you happen to believe what the right wing talking heads are telling you, then you probably believe that our government cant run a healthcare system, and t…
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Fixing the Wrong Healthcare Problems - PT. 2/2

Just Add Farro

Wheat berries like farro, spelt and kamut are usually associated with cold weather. But they can be used for summer dishes, too. Farro is softer and good for stuffing vegetables. Spelt works well in salads.
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Just Add Farro

Transforming Cancer Care

Leaders from UNC Health Care are driving outcomes and patient engagement through a multidisciplinary model.
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Transforming Cancer Care

Ask Well: The Problem with Bunions

Non-surgical treatments can reduce the pain or discomfort from a bunion and keep it from worsening.
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Ask Well: The Problem with Bunions

Forming Attachments Near and Far

An unforeseen benefit of living with cancer is the intimacy it creates with individuals we barely know.
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Forming Attachments Near and Far

Singapore Healthcare: Building a healthy nation

Singapore healthcare begins with building a healthy population – to live well, live long and with peace of mind. Our healthcare financing system aims to ensu…
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Singapore Healthcare: Building a healthy nation

Washington Consensus Encloses Ukraine

Source: michael-hudson.com – Monday, August 04, 2014 The Real News Network West looks to ramp up gas production, as Vice President Biden’s son named leader in Ukrainian gas company Burisma – August 4, 2014 JESSICA DESVARIEUX, TRNN PRODUCER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Jessica Desv...
Washington Consensus Encloses Ukraine

In Sickness and in Health

People make sacrifices for each other when it comes to health, just as they do with family and careers. When both partners develop cancer, it is no exception.
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In Sickness and in Health

What Is So Special About Iyengar Yoga?

This week the international yoga community said goodbye to B.K.S. Iyengar, a favorite teacher credited with bringing yoga to the Western world. One of his students, Carrie Owerko, a New York yoga teacher, talked about what makes Iyengar yoga so...
What Is So Special About Iyengar Yoga?

Mars Petcare US Announces Voluntary Recall of 22 Bags of PEDIGREE® Brand Adult Complete Nutrition for Dogs Sold at Dollar General in Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee and Louisiana

Today, Mars Petcare US announced a voluntary recall of 22 bags of PEDIGREE® Adult Complete Nutrition dry dog food products due to the possible presence of a foreign material. The bags were produced in one manufacturing facility, and shipped to one retail customer
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Mars Petcare US Announces Voluntary Recall of 22 Bags of PEDIGREE® Brand Adult Complete Nutrition for Dogs Sold at Dollar General in Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee and Louisiana

A Tipping Point for Too Much Talent

What happens when you pack a sports team with top players at every position?
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A Tipping Point for Too Much Talent

What Kids Say - Testimonial - Inspiring - HealthCare Problems

Inspiring testimonial of “What Kids Say” about HealthCare Problems from http://patientcenteredplan.com ______ CONNECT WITH ME: Website – http://george…
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What Kids Say - Testimonial - Inspiring - HealthCare Problems

Is Breakfast Overrated?

Researchers are questioning the assumptions behind morning meals.
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Is Breakfast Overrated?

Consider BURGER KING for Silva

Source: forums.sherdog.com – Wednesday, January 01, 2014
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The Decisive Marriage

New research shows that couples who are decisive before marriage appear to have better marriages than those who simply let inertia carry them through major transitions.
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The Decisive Marriage

Healing Healthcare Problems

Distinguished Professor Ron Rardin, holder of the John and Mary Lib White Systems Integration Chair in Industrial Engineering, explains some of the logistica…
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Healing Healthcare Problems

3 keys to mobile marketing for health care pros

Mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets, are shaking up the world of health care.
For example, the Glassesoff app helps train your eye to overcome the need for reading glasses, and the Kinsa Smart Thermometer plugs right into your iPhone so you can take a quick temperature...
3 keys to mobile marketing for health care pros

Healing Teenage Cancer’s Scars

Even with an excellent chance of being cured, teenagers with cancer face myriad emotional, educational and social concerns, especially missing out on activities and losing friends who can’t cope with cancer in a contemporary.
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Healing Teenage Cancer’s Scars

PSN Down As Sony, Blizzard, Riot And Others Are Under Siege By Hackers

If you’re trying to play a game on PSN today, you may be running into some issues. Despite routine maintenance set for tomorrow, over the weekend Sony’s PSN service has been hit by a series of crippling attacks from a hacker/vandal collective known as “Lizard Squad.” The...
PSN Down As Sony, Blizzard, Riot And Others Are Under Siege By Hackers

Healthcare Reform: Measuring and Improving Quality of Care

Dana Safran Senior Vice President Performance Measurement and Improvement Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Westlake Forum III April 12, 2011 Emory Uni…
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Healthcare Reform: Measuring and Improving Quality of Care

Food and the Dying Patient

The medicalization of food deprives the dying of some of the last remnants of the human experience: taste, smell, touch and connection to loved ones.
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Food and the Dying Patient

California Firm Recalls Chicken Caesar Salad Kits For Possible Listeria Contamination

APPA Fine Foods, a Corona, Calif. establishment, is recalling approximately 92,657 pounds of fully cooked chicken Caesar salad kit products due to concerns about possible Listeria monocytogenes.
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California Firm Recalls Chicken Caesar Salad Kits For Possible Listeria Contamination

Ask Well: Are Spray-On Sunscreens Safe?

A reader asks: Spray-on sunscreen has airborne particles that can spread or be inhaled, or can get into one’s eyes. Is this safe?
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Ask Well: Are Spray-On Sunscreens Safe?

Healthcare Management Salaries Explored

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Healthcare Management Salaries Explored

Growth Hormone for Children May Increase Stroke Risk

Childhood treatment with human growth hormone is strongly associated with an increased risk for stroke in early adulthood, a new study has found.
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Growth Hormone for Children May Increase Stroke Risk

The Doctor's Office, August 2014

The Doctor’s Office, August 2014
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The Doctor's Office, August 2014

Vegetarian Taco Night

Summer produce and corn tortillas combine for a bounty of meatless tacos.
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Vegetarian Taco Night

Spine Problems — Doctors On Call WVU Healthcare and WV Public TV

Millions of Americans suffer with back pain. What can you do about it? Two experts answer questions about spine problems in this episode of Doctors On Call.
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Spine Problems — Doctors On Call WVU Healthcare and WV Public TV

The secret committee behind our soaring healthcare costs

In 2012, national health care spending in the United States reached $ 2.8 trillion, or more than 17 percent of the country’s gross domestic product — more than any other industrialized country. And yet overall our citizens aren’t healthier than those in other industrialized...
The secret committee behind our soaring healthcare costs

One Moment You See, Then You Don’t

One second. That’s all it took to lose my vision. And my world changed.
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One Moment You See, Then You Don’t

Texas Health Resources sees better Q2 amid investment losses

A boost to revenue and non-operating gains helped Texas Health Resources’ second quarter of 2014 outpace its first. But even with the improved performance, the not-for-profit system fell short of where it was this time last year.
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Texas Health Resources sees better Q2 amid investment losses

Fish as Brain Food

Eating fish is associated with an increase in brain volume, but it is apparently not because of its omegaDž content, a new study of older adults has found.
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Fish as Brain Food

Comprehensive Solutions to Healthcare System Problems Video 3 Part 2

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Comprehensive Solutions to Healthcare System Problems Video 3 Part 2

Feeding Your Canine Athlete

Humans and dogs fuel exercise very differently. So if you’re taking your dog out for a run, take note.
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Feeding Your Canine Athlete

Infographic: Emergency room overcrowding

How is your emergency department holding up these days?
Although the opposite was expected, under the Affordable Care Act emergency rooms have seen an increase in patients this year, according to USA Today and other sources.
Some hospitals post ER wait times online, but beyond that, what...
Infographic: Emergency room overcrowding

Talking to Men About PSA Testing

Despite recommendations against widespread screening for prostate cancer, many doctors continue to routinely offer PSA testing because it’s easier than explaining the pros and cons.
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Talking to Men About PSA Testing

Weighing Pradaxa’s Risks

Despite recent sharp criticism and a $ 650 million settlement, hundreds of thousands of consumers with atrial fibrillation continue to take the blood thinner.
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Weighing Pradaxa’s Risks

A Day in the life of a Nursing Assistant/Healthcare Support Worker

Nursing Assistants doing what they do day in day out! Thank you to all staff and patients for helping us highlight the varied and valuable work these staff p…
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A Day in the life of a Nursing Assistant/Healthcare Support Worker

Palmetto Health feels squeeze from high-deductible plans

Revenue at Palmetto Health, a four-hospital system based in Columbia, S.C., increased a modest 1.9% in the first nine months of its fiscal 2014, which ended June 30. The nationwide shift toward high-deductible health plans was a factor in lower…
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Palmetto Health feels squeeze from high-deductible plans

Struggling to the Finish: An Insider’s Guide to CrossFit

What makes CrossFit appealing to members and confusing to outsiders is that it’s more than a workout — it’s a cultural identity. A new book on the subject may also only appeal to the initiated.
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Struggling to the Finish: An Insider’s Guide to CrossFit

Picking Apart Objections to Eating Fish

Fish is good for you, better than heart-damaging red meat and even better than lean poultry. Even so, it is not a popular choice in the kitchen — but there are ways to overcome opposition to it.
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Picking Apart Objections to Eating Fish

Hey Cynics, Hold That Cold Water: Why The Ice Bucket Challenge Worked

A pitcher of cold ice water. A social media account. And a smart phone. Those are the elements of philanthropy’s feel good hit of the summer – the Ice Bucket Challenge, starring a millennial near you and almost every celebrity you can name.
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Hey Cynics, Hold That Cold Water: Why The Ice Bucket Challenge Worked

Ask Well: How Do You Use a Heart Rate Monitor?

Heart rate monitors can be a useful tool during exercise for new and experienced runners and other athletes.
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Ask Well: How Do You Use a Heart Rate Monitor?

David Barash: "Healthcare Problems are Complicated. Solutions Don't Need to Be"

David Barash, Executive Director, Global Health Portfolio and Chief Medical Officer, GE Foundation, presents at Unite For Sight’s 2014 Innovators Forum.
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David Barash: "Healthcare Problems are Complicated. Solutions Don't Need to Be"

New Goals, New Alliances

The historically adversarial relationship between providers and payers is shifting toward cautious cooperation as both sides recognize that they must implement structural and strategic changes to ensure their mutual survival.
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New Goals, New Alliances

Best Way to Brush Your Teeth? Experts Disagree

A review of the dental literature found no randomized trials of brushing technique, and very little agreement on how to go about cleaning teeth.
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Best Way to Brush Your Teeth? Experts Disagree

Healthcare Reform: Business Confusion

Were just weeks away from the next major step for health care reform. On October first the insurance landscape changes dramatically when the so called health…
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Healthcare Reform: Business Confusion

Number of providers facing Stage 2 EHR hurdle puts billions at stake

Billions of dollars in federal electronic health-record incentive payments appear to be in jeopardy as hospitals, physicians and other eligible professionals who got an early start on the payment program face a more stringent set of criteria this…
Modern Healthcare Breaking News

Number of providers facing Stage 2 EHR hurdle puts billions at stake

Cool Summer Fish

These refreshing summer dishes include two kinds of escabeche. You can cook fish like sardines, petrale sole and Pacific cod, then allow it to cool and serve it with a robust sauce or a marinade.
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Cool Summer Fish

The Downside of Running With Others

I found fellow runners on Facebook and felt like I’d found a team. But running with others, I soon learned, can have its downsides.
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The Downside of Running With Others

Health Care: Sanders vs Paul

Senator Sanders and Senator Paul debate whether health care is a human right and the implications of that right. When commenting on this video, please comply…

Health Care: Sanders vs Paul

Vitamin D Tied to Alzheimer’s Risk

Low vitamin D is associated with an increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, according to a new report.
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Vitamin D Tied to Alzheimer’s Risk

When a debt collector tries to snag you in a Catch-22

Joyce finds herself in a debt-collection Catch-22. The following message was left on her answering machine:
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When a debt collector tries to snag you in a Catch-22

Deaf People in Ghana face a lot of problems in accessing healthcare

Deaf people in Ghana are routinely denied access to information and communication. Access to healthcare is one area that Deaf people are denied most. This fo…
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Deaf People in Ghana face a lot of problems in accessing healthcare

How Exercise Helps Us Tolerate Pain

The results of a new study remind us that the longer we stick with an exercise program, the less physically discomfiting it will feel.
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How Exercise Helps Us Tolerate Pain

Medical Training Gets a Second Life

The University of Michigan School of Nursing is using the online virtual world Second Life to help medical students hone their leadership and communication skills, and to do so with some degree of anonymity.
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Medical Training Gets a Second Life

Tactic in Alzheimer’s Fight May Be Safe, Study Finds

Research suggests that reducing or neutralizing one variety of the APOE gene would not harm the brain, while making Alzheimer’s less likely.
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Tactic in Alzheimer’s Fight May Be Safe, Study Finds

Top Doctors, Dead or Alive

Various directories and websites claim to compile lists of the best physicians, but who is deciding and how?
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Top Doctors, Dead or Alive

Problems persist on healthcare.gov

John Shainman reports.

Problems persist on healthcare.gov

VBP Program Impact, Incentives Questioned

A pay-for-performance researcher says Medicare’s value-based purchasing program has not shown improved hospital quality in its initial nine-month rollout period, probably because the financial incentives are too low. But Premier Inc.’s medical director challenges the...
VBP Program Impact, Incentives Questioned

Prostate Cancer Screening Still Not Recommended for All

A major European study has shown that blood test screening for prostate cancer saves lives, but doubts remain about whether the benefit is large enough to offset the harms caused by unnecessary biopsies and treatments that can render men incontinent...
Prostate Cancer Screening Still Not Recommended for All

Why Does Israel Keep Changing Its Story On Gaza?

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Think Like a Doctor: Losing It

A former state trooper begins wasting away, losing body hair and falling down. Can you solve a medical mystery that stumped the man’s doctors?
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Think Like a Doctor: Losing It

Obamacare/Affordable Healthcare Act, the problems and LIES!!!!! Part 2

Tim Conway Jr. talks to listeners about how they are being dropped from the current coverage they have even though President Obama said they could keep it!! …
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Obamacare/Affordable Healthcare Act, the problems and LIES!!!!! Part 2

Seeking work but lacking experience: Some tips that can help

The economy may be slowly improving, but that doesn’t mean there are jobs aplenty for all who want them. And finding a gig can be especially challenging for those without a lot of experience.
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Seeking work but lacking experience: Some tips that can help

Living With Cancer: Difficult Choices

A series of problematic choices confront anyone dealing with cancer.
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Living With Cancer: Difficult Choices

Think Like a Doctor: Losing It Solved!

Readers solve the case of a middle-aged man who loses weight, strength and the hair on his legs.
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Think Like a Doctor: Losing It Solved!

Change Delivered: The Road to Health Care Reform

www.dccc.org/obamacare?=youtube BREAKING NEWS: The Supreme Court just voted to uphold President Obama’s Health Care law. Republicans threw everything they ha…

Change Delivered: The Road to Health Care Reform

Training Physicians for Empathy

A pair of training programs exposes medical students to art and loss, teaches them about the emotional aspects of patient care, and helps them avoid burnout.
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Training Physicians for Empathy

Cook a Peck of Peppers

There will be a bounty of peppers mild and hot through October. Here are five new ways to prepare them.
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Cook a Peck of Peppers

Ask Well: Does Yoga Build Strength?

A reader asks: Is yoga sufficient strength exercise for optimal health, or do I have to lift weights in a fitness center?
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Ask Well: Does Yoga Build Strength?

Why and how to do A/B testing on your health care website

The way your website looks and functions has an important impact on conversion rates.
 
That’s true whether you work in a doctor’s office or sell medical equipment, but before you make some big change to your website’s functionality—and invest that money in a redesign—it’s worthwhile to tes...
Why and how to do A/B testing on your health care website

Flanigan Lecture: Why Healthcare Reform Comes So Hard

Health care reform in America comes hard because we didn’t get to where we are by accident. That’s according to Dr. Steve Schroeder of the University of Cali…

Flanigan Lecture: Why Healthcare Reform Comes So Hard

Video is Critical to Online Healthcare Marketing

Video has rapidly become the single most engaging and clicked-on of all Internet media. Astoundingly, people view over four billion YouTube videos every day. So it makes perfect sense to use the power of video and social media – YouTube, Yelp, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google – to com...
Video is Critical to Online Healthcare Marketing

Religious Freedom and Healthcare Reform

For more on this event, visit: http://bit.ly/wPa57B For more on the Berkley Center, visit: http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu March 22, 2012 | The Health an…
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Religious Freedom and Healthcare Reform

Bring order to chaos in medicine: Stick with an organizational system

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Bring order to chaos in medicine: Stick with an organizational system

Community Health Systems pays $98M to settle DOJ claims

Franklin-based hospital company Community Health Systems will pay a total of more than $ 98 million to settle a Department of Justice investigation into the company’s billing practices. About $ 88 million of the settlement will go to resolve claims made by the federal government that...
Community Health Systems pays $98M to settle DOJ claims

Why We Should Know the Price of Medical Tests

Patients who were offered to have M.R.I. scans done at alternative locations for a lower price often opted to go there, saving money and driving down health care costs, a new study shows.
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Why We Should Know the Price of Medical Tests

Throwing Money at the Past

As medical groups debate a report finding shortcomings in doctor training programs, what’s missing is talk of lack of oversight in such programs, which receive generous public funding.
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Throwing Money at the Past

Healthcare Reform:Emptying a Flooded Basement without Turning off the Tap

In this presentation Dr. Harris will explain how government food policy is itself the cause of our rising rates of obesity and degenerative disease. He will …

Healthcare Reform:Emptying a Flooded Basement without Turning off the Tap

Tampa General sees improved quarter, helped by non-operating gains

Continued revenue growth, coupled with a decline in expenses, contributed to another improved quarter for Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital, which reported fiscal third-quarter results Friday.
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Tampa General sees improved quarter, helped by non-operating gains

CMS Confirms ICD-10 Deadline

October 1st, 2015, is the deadline for healthcare providers to implement the twice-delayed ICD-10 code set, federal officials confirm.
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CMS Confirms ICD-10 Deadline

Health care at half the cost: What will that actually look like?

Health care costs far too much. We can do it better for half the cost. But if we did cut the cost in half, we would cut the jobs in half, wipe out 9% of the economy and plunge the country into a depression.
Really? It’s that simple? Half the cost equals ...
Health care at half the cost: What will that actually look like?

Why HealthCare.gov is riddled with security problems

Cyber security experts say information on website is still at risk.
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Why HealthCare.gov is riddled with security problems

Ask Well: Do I Need a Measles Shot?

I haven’t been vaccinated against measles since I was a child in the 1950s. Should older adults get another vaccination?
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Ask Well: Do I Need a Measles Shot?

2015 HIX Premium Hikes May Top 7%

Average 2015 premium rate increases on the new health insurance exchanges are likely to stand in the high single digits, according to data collected from half the states.
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2015 HIX Premium Hikes May Top 7%

Fresh and Fruity Salsas

Creative ingredients, like watermelon or kohlrabi, can freshen up a summer salsa, writes Martha Rose Shulman in this week’s Recipes for Health.
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Fresh and Fruity Salsas

Healthcare.gov pre-launch email chain warned of website problems

A chain of White House emails indicated that Healthcare.gov was in danger of crashing on it’s first day of operation. Messages from Henry Chao, the top devel…
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Healthcare.gov pre-launch email chain warned of website problems

Filing bankruptcy? How to protect loved ones who cosign loans

Wanda says her daughter is the cosigner for two auto loans. Wanda also is considering a bankruptcy filing.
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Filing bankruptcy? How to protect loved ones who cosign loans