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‘Angelina Jolie op’ is given to women it cannot help: Surgeons are pushing...
Dr Fiona MacNeill, a surgeon at London’s Royal Marsden Hospital, said medics were ‘driving the removal’ of the health just to give patients ‘peace of mind’ US study shows a patient’s surgeon’s opinion...
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Amid Opioid Crisis, Insurers Restrict Pricey, Less Addictive Painkillers
ProPublica and The New York Times analyzed Medicare prescription drug plans covering 35.7 million people in the second quarter of this year. Only one-third of the people covered, for example, had any...
View ArticleWhy Hurricanes Are Like Health Care
As Congress continues to struggle with health insurance reform, members should be ruminating on the scenes of “recovery” beaming in from East Texas and Florida, where the majority of households — many...
View ArticleTillerson Says US May Close Cuba Embassy Over Health Attacks
A closing of the embassy, were it to occur, would be less a political statement than one of concern over the risks that employees face in Havana. The American Foreign Service Association reported this...
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US Senate to hold hearing on Republican health-care proposal
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View ArticleUnder Armour Is Now The Largest Digital Health And Fitness Company On Earth
Under Armour used to be known primarily for its moisture-wicking t-shirts. In the 21 years since the company was established in founder and CEO Kevin Plank’s grandmother’s basement, the company has...
View ArticleBlue Cross official authors health IT article in New England Journal of Medicine
Advances in health care information technology and greater use of electronic health records and digital tools will drive better decision making and improve patients’ health, according to Blue Cross and...
View ArticleNew health-care plan stumbles under opposition from governors
Senate Republicans and the White House pressed ahead Tuesday with their suddenly resurgent effort to undo former president Barack Obama’s signature health-care law, even as their attempt was dealt a...
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Now is the time to be bullish about digital health, according to this investor
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View ArticleBill and Melinda Gates Grade the World’s Health
At 61, he could speak with the avuncular magniloquence of a professor emeritus; instead, he layers on supporting data like a star pupil seeking an A-plus. He rebuts skeptical inquiries and insists on...
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How the Latest Obamacare Repeal Plan Would Work
In the meantime, analysts say, the individual insurance markets could face enormous changes. The legislation rolls back popular consumer protections in Obamacare, leaving each state to decide what...
View ArticleOnly One of the Two New Health-Care Proposals Qualifies as ‘Extreme’
Will the real moderate party please stand up? On the same day that socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) introduced his “Medicare for All” health-care plan, Senators Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) and...
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DC Health Department Cracks Down on Dogs on Bar and Restaurant Patios
Andy Pants has been evicted from his beer garden dog house. Peyton Sherwood, owner of the Midlands in Park View, says a DC Department of Health inspector paid him a visit yesterday and told him that...
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The GOP Bill Forces States to Build Health Systems From Scratch. That’s Hard.
The language of the bill provides them with a nearly unlimited range of policy options to use the money in the service of providing health care access, and no templates or fallback options. Republican...
View ArticleJimmy Kimmel’s Failed Test
‘This is not my area of expertise.” That’s the first intelligent thing Jimmy Kimmel has had to say about health-insurance reform. Kimmel is a late-night comedian and the father of a beautiful...
View ArticleCVS Health Moves to Limit Access to Opioid Painkillers
One of the largest managers of pharmaceutical benefits in the U.S. says it will start limiting the duration and dose of some prescriptions for opioid painkillers, in an effort to combat widespread...
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McCain Announces Opposition to Republican Health Bill, Likely Dooming It
For months, Mr. McCain has lamented a Senate legislative process that avoided hearings or formal bill-drafting procedures and excluded Democrats. On Friday, he said those tactics were intolerable. “We...
View ArticleCost of healthy foods may explain heart risks linked to ‘food deserts’
(Reuters Health) – Living in an area with little access to fresh and nutritious foods has been linked to high heart disease risk, but a new study suggests that it’s the inability to afford a healthy...
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Mosquitoes spread deadly diseases, and public health experts hope to fight...
Mosquitoes are more than a spoiler of backyard barbecues. They threaten more than half the world’s population with their disease-spreading bites. In fact, mosquitoes are deadlier — by far — than sharks...
View ArticleAs Deadline Looms For GOP Health Care Push, Colorado Governor Talks Own...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Let’s talk more about the subject we just raised, which happens to be one of this country’s most pressing policy debates. That is, how to provide health care for Americans at a...
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