Health Care

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How to get a cheaper prescription before leaving the doctor’s office

Trump signs executive order to overhaul nation's kidney program

Kidney Trump Order

WHO updates medicine and diagnostic test recommendations for more than 150 countries

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Philly-based NeuroFlow, Jefferson Health team up on better mental health treatment

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American medical students less likely to choose to become primary care doctors

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New Jersey's CarePoint Health planning layoffs despite owners' sizable earnings

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Health care price transparency: Fool's gold, or real money in your pocket?

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Surgeons who mistreat co-workers put patients in danger, study finds

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Jefferson exec's health care vision shaped by unique obstetrics career, wife's cancer battle

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Cancer patients first face physical hardships, then financial struggles as survivors

cancer survivor medical bills

Former GSK facility in Upper Merion becomes world's largest co-working space

Discovery Labs Upper Merion

Harvard researchers posed as drug addicts to illustrate the struggle for treatment

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New Jersey 'Patient Protection Act' sparks battle between Philly and Jersey health systems

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24 million insured Americans are spending a big chunk of their income on medical bills

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Comcast is the latest corporate giant to jump on the health tech train

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The U.S. could have ended up with a British-style health care system: Here is why it didn’t

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These are the non-negotiable health care screenings all women should be getting

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IBX Foundation celebrates National Nurses Week

IBC Foundation national nurses week

Robotic health care is coming to a hospital near you

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'Hospital openness' can lead to lower mortality rates and improved patient safety, study finds

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Summer bummer: A young camper’s $142,938 snakebite

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Is insulin’s high cost keeping diabetes patients from taking their medicine?

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Does most of your paycheck go to rent? That may be hurting your health

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Medicaid work requirements: Is there a path forward that could help the poor, not harm them?

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UPS teases new venture into at-home health care, vaccinations

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There’s an entire television series based on this controversial mental illness

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Health Insurance

There’s a new ‘Medicare-for-all’ bill in the House. Why does it matter?

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Dying while black: Perpetual gaps exist in health care for African-Americans

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Burned-out, depressed doctors are thinking about suicide

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Alternative Medicine

Walgreens, Microsoft teaming up to offer new digital health care services

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Most caregivers of people with dementia are family members, and they need help

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Compassionomics 101: How kindness can make a big difference in health care

Carroll - Dr. Stephen Trzeciak Cooper

Adenovirus outbreak at New Jersey medical center shows communication errors, still no known source

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A new study predicts global insulin shortage by 2030, leaving 40 million diabetics without

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Jefferson collaboration creates first international medical degree

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These are the safest — and least-safe — hospitals in the Philadelphia area

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Amazon to offer new line of at-home health care devices and accessories

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