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From 'god-like' to team huddle: Training doctors for a new health care future

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Dan Gorenstein
Mar 15, 2013
At medical schools across the country, more than 30,000 aspiring doctors are meeting their matches and finding out where they will spend the next several years as residents.
Posted In: doctors, Match Day, health care
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A warning about the price of generic drugs

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David Lazarus
Mar 8, 2013
Drug manufacturers can charge very different prices for essentially the same generic medicine.
Posted In: generic drugs, prescription
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The costs of living with HIV: One man's story

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David Lazarus
Mar 8, 2013
How does living with a disease like HIV affect one's financial choices?
Posted In: HIV, health care, AIDS
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Everyone pays the high cost of diabetes

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Jeff Tyler
Mar 7, 2013
New research says diabetes cost the nation a record $245 billion in 2012, up more than 40 percent in the past five years.
Posted In: diabetes, American Diabetes Association, obesity, disease
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The Medicaid question: To expand or not expand

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Dan Gorenstein
Feb 21, 2013
For states considering not to expand Medicaid, the program for the poor and disabled, it's all a numbers game.
Posted In: medicaid
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Florida Medicaid switcheroo: Rick Scott backs down

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Dan Gorenstein
Feb 21, 2013
One of the Affordable Care Act's fiercest critics, Florida's Republican Governor Rick Scott has reversed courses and is dropping his opposition to expanding Medicaid.
Posted In: health care, Affordable Care Act, medicaid
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The economic benefits of mapping the human brain

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Dan Gorenstein
Feb 18, 2013
President Obama wants to fund a project to look at how brain activity works. A decade of research could help create new devices and procedures.
Posted In: brain
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How to fix hospital horror stories that start in the ICU

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Dan Gorenstein
Feb 14, 2013
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore is pioneering the ICU of the future to help keep the sickest patients from getting sicker.
Posted In: ICU, hospital
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Animal health firm is biggest IPO since Facebook

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Ethan Lindsey
Feb 1, 2013
Animal health care is the fastest growing sector of health care. Medicine for the pets we love and the livestock we eat is a more than $4 billion business for Zoetis, a company spun off by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
Posted In: Zoetis, pharmaceuticals, veterinarian
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More hype than science behind some cancer screenings

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Jeff Tyler
Jan 30, 2013
A new report from Consumer Reports finds some cancer screenings are over-sold to the public.
Posted In: cancer tests, consumer reports, Agus

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