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Knee replacement surgeries double
Sep 26, 2012
In recent years Americans have been replacing their knees at an remarkable rate.
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Health care spending grows 4% after downward trend
Sep 24, 2012
Study finds growth in healthcare spending has reversed its post-recession slump.
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Moving from very poor neighborhoods improves health
Sep 20, 2012
Researchers have found that while moving out of poorer neighborhoods improves a person's health and general happiness, moving to a better-off region did not improve families' income.
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Alabama on the fence about taking money for Medicaid
Sep 18, 2012
Alabama joins a slew of lawmakers who are ambivalent about taking funds from the Fed to cover the millions more people who will become eligible for Medicaid under Obamacare.
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Employers embrace wellness plans
Sep 17, 2012
More employers, public and private, are including wellness plans in their benefits to help employees become more fit, lowering health insurance costs.
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Massachusetts and the high price of health care
Sep 11, 2012
Six years after sweeping health care reform, Massachusetts is still struggling to lower the cost of care.
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Drug companies cash in on curing animals
Sep 3, 2012
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 the pharmaceutical company Pfizer.
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Walmart arms itself with vaccines
Aug 23, 2012
The giant discounter will soon begin offering a slew of shots aimed at boosting its health care business.
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Aetna buys Coventry Health Care in a Medicaid land grab
Aug 20, 2012
The $5.7 billion deal with let Aetna double its number of Medicaid members.
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Aetna to buy Coventry Health Care for over $5.5 billion
Aug 20, 2012
Shares of the insurance giant Aetna are looking awfully healthy this morning. Acquiring another insurer is likely providing a bit of a shot in the arm. It's the latest in a stream of health insurance mergers we've been charting -- many of them happening for the same reasons.
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Marketplace and health reporter Dan Gorenstein look at the business and economics of health care.
