Life With a Dog: You Meet People

The health benefits of owning a pet, particularly a dog, are well documented and wide-ranging, from cardiovascular to social.
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Life With a Dog: You Meet People

ICD-10 delay creates headaches

Killing ICD-10 would have made a lot of doctors happy, despite all the money wasted preparing for the transition to the new diagnosis and medical billing codes. Delaying it for a year may be a relief to them, as well, but it’s nothing but grief for ICD-10 project leaders. Though a...
ICD-10 delay creates headaches

Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to Disease in Two Big Studies

The new research, however, doesn’t show whether low levels are a cause of illness or are simply an indicator of overall health.
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Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to Disease in Two Big Studies

CBS: Healthcare.gov Chief Project Manager Kept in Dark About Website Problems

CBS: Healthcare.gov Chief Project Manager Kept in Dark About Website Problems.
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CBS: Healthcare.gov Chief Project Manager Kept in Dark About Website Problems

Think Like a Doctor: Running in Circles

Dr. Lisa Sanders challenges readers to solve a tough medical mystery involving a 23-year-old man with uncontrollable episodes of aggressive, manic behavior.
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Think Like a Doctor: Running in Circles

CT screenings for lung cancer misleading

Nearly one in five patients with a history of cigarette smoking who is diagnosed with lung cancer with recommended CT screening don’t have a clinically significant disease and are overdiagnosed. But scientists don’t yet have any way of knowing which ones.
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CT screenings for lung cancer misleading

Turning Up the Heat on Fruit

Not too sweet, not too fussy, fruit compotes are a way to take advantage of the apples, pears and citrus available before the arrival of stone-fruit and berry season.
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Turning Up the Heat on Fruit

Think Like a Doctor: Running in Circles Solved!

Dr. Lisa Sanders reveals the diagnosis in a mysterious case of an agitated young man with uncontrollable manic behavior.
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Think Like a Doctor: Running in Circles Solved!

Health Care Reform: Your 90-Second Video Guide

WebMD explains the key issues in the U.S. Supreme Court’s review of the 2010 Health Care Reform Act.

Health Care Reform: Your 90-Second Video Guide

America's New Brainpower Cities

Brainpower rankings usually identify the usual suspects: college towns like Boston, Washington, D.C.,  and the San Francisco Bay area. And to be sure, these places generally have the highest per capita education levels. However, it’s worthwhile to look at the metro areas that are gaining ...
America's New Brainpower Cities

Ask Well: Ankle Replacements

A reader asks: If they can replace knees and hips, why not ankles?
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Ask Well: Ankle Replacements

Reform Update: Officials from troubled state exchanges emphasize enrollment success

Several officials from troubled state insurance exchanges Thursday focused on damage control, seeking to put a positive spin on their efforts when they trudged up Capitol Hill to testify about their operational problems.
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Reform Update: Officials from troubled state exchanges emphasize enrollment success

The Hospital-Dependent Patient

Some fragile survivors of intensive, expensive treatments are like a house of cards, their health collapsing under even a minor stress.
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The Hospital-Dependent Patient

Health Care Reform

I read a great article in Time Magazine about American health care reform. The author, Fareed Zakaria, quoted statistics from a study by the International Fe…
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Health Care Reform

Hobby Lobby Invested In Numerous Abortion And Contraception Products While Claiming Religious Objection

In what just may be the most stunning example of hypocrisy in my lifetime, Mother Jones has uncovered numerous investments on the part of Hobby Lobby’s retirement fund in a wide variety of companies producing abortion and contraception related products.
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Hobby Lobby Invested In Numerous Abortion And Contraception Products While Claiming Religious Objection

How Exercise Can Help You Live Longer

An encouraging new study finds that exercise may slash your risk of heart disease, regardless of your cholesterol numbers or waist size.
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How Exercise Can Help You Live Longer

Bill O'Reilly: Universal Healthcare Is Communist

Bill O’Reilly opened his show Tuesday night claiming that Obamacare is just an element of the ideal society liberals have in mind for the U.S.: a socialist s…
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Bill O'Reilly: Universal Healthcare Is Communist

Why are doctors crazy enough to accept health care’s status quo?

We believe integrated will triumph fragmented every time. -Steve Jobs
Two articles recently got my attention. The first was an interview by Dr. Robert Pearl, CEO of the Permanente Medical Group with my favorite author and thinker Malcolm Gladwell. On...
Why are doctors crazy enough to accept health care’s status quo?

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Quick Gains After a Smoking Ban

Measures of children’s health improved around the world just a year after smoking prohibitions were enacted, researchers say.
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Quick Gains After a Smoking Ban