Hospitals and Insurers Join to Cut Health Care Costs
Insurers, hospitals and doctors say they are forming partnerships and creating programs to find ways to slow the growth in the nation’s $2.7 trillion health care bill.
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POSTED 05/24/2012 at 02:10 AM -- 
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Many Individual Health Policies Fall Short, a Study Says
Researchers found that employer-provided insurance is likely to continue to be more generous even if the new health care law is upheld.
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POSTED 05/24/2012 at 12:46 AM --
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F.D.A. Panel Votes Against Expansion of Anticoagulant
The Food and Drug Administration said concerns over bleeding outweighed the evidence that Xarelto reduced the risk of blood clots.
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POSTED 05/24/2012 at 12:43 AM --
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Phys Ed: Phys Ed: Are Marathons Bad for the Heart?
The death from heart attack of the ultramarathoner Micah True has raised awareness about the safety of marathon racing and training. But the science suggests that distance running and racing are extremely unlikely to kill you -- except when, in rare instances, they do.
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POSTED 05/23/2012 at 04:55 PM --
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Well: The Raw Meat Diet for Pets
A vocal minority of pet food owners are willing to pay a premium for raw pets foods, believing they are healthier for their dogs and cats than commercially prepared foods.
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POSTED 05/23/2012 at 01:35 PM --
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Native Americans Struggle With High Rate of Rape
The assault rate on tribal lands is higher than the national average, and reservation residents who report being attacked often confront gaps in medical and legal help.
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POSTED 05/23/2012 at 02:37 PM --
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Well: The Doctor's Remedy: Biofeedback for Stress
Patients aren't the only ones interested in alternative and complementary medicine. In a new series, Well talks to doctors across the country to find out what nontraditional medicines or therapies they sometimes recommend or use themselves.
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POSTED 05/23/2012 at 10:18 AM --
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Tailoring Treatments for Alcoholics
Some addiction experts envision a near future in which patients will be able to choose a drug that best suits them, and couple it with therapy and other tools to achieve long-term recovery.
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POSTED 05/22/2012 at 04:17 PM --
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Well: New Data on Harms of Prostate Cancer Screening
In a controversial finding, a government task force concluded that the harms of the simple blood test far outweigh any potential benefit.
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POSTED 05/23/2012 at 04:54 PM --
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Advertising: Band-Aids and Muppets Soothe Child’s Scrapes
A free app for iPhones and iPads linked to Muppets Band-Aids makes a Muppet character appear to emerge from the bandage to console the injured child.
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POSTED 05/23/2012 at 03:30 PM --
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Recipes for Health: Stuffed Collard Greens — Recipes for Health
With herbs, tender rice and a lemony sauce, these rolls will have you thinking of the Mediterranean.
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POSTED 05/22/2012 at 03:14 PM --
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Direct Primary Care Providers Lower Cost of Concierge Services
Direct primary care providers, which were once most associated with concierge health services for the rich, are reaching out to small businesses and the working class.
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POSTED 05/23/2012 at 03:20 PM --
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Gains in Health System Seen as Lasting by Some
The new health care law has improved the system for patients, and those gains will survive any Supreme Court decision, some Democratic officials said.
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POSTED 05/23/2012 at 05:18 PM --
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Katie Beckett, Who Inspired Health Reform, Dies at 34
Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, called Ms. Beckett “an inadvertent pioneer in the civil rights movement for people with disabilities.”
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POSTED 05/23/2012 at 03:37 PM --
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Jean Pakter, Women’s Health Advocate in New York, Dies at 101
As head of the city’s maternity services bureau, Dr. Pakter supported a law that legalized abortion in New York before Roe v. Wade, and one of her studies led to a breakthrough in care for premature babies.
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POSTED 05/23/2012 at 11:59 PM --
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Secret Clinics Tend to Bahrain’s Wounded
Amid an uprising, “no one goes to the hospital,” one protester said. The police are there.
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POSTED 05/22/2012 at 02:15 PM --
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Global Update: Fake and Substandard Drugs Grow as Threat to Fight Malaria
About a third of the drug samples from Southeast Asia and Africa failed in testing, according to a report by an American agency.
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POSTED 05/22/2012 at 05:00 PM --
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A Long View on Health Care: Think Like an Investor
A conversation with the economist Dana Goldman, who believes that prevention should drive health care reimbursement.
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POSTED 05/22/2012 at 04:48 PM --
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Well: Sleep Apnea Tied to Increased Cancer Risk
Two new studies associate a common disorder of sleep that causes pauses in breathing with a higher risk of cancer.
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POSTED 05/21/2012 at 05:27 PM --
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Catholics File Suits on Contraceptive Coverage
Forty-three groups are challenging the Obama administration’s rule that employees receive health insurance coverage for contraception.
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POSTED 05/22/2012 at 03:00 PM --
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