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Check your medical records for dangerous errors

Congress targets misuse of hospice drugs

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Children's Health

Eat, toke or vape: Teens not too picky when it comes to pot’s potpourri

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Biorhythms and birth control: FDA stirs debate by approving ‘natural’ app

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Health Insurance

How genetic tests muddy your odds of getting a long-term-care policy

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How soon is soon enough to learn you have Alzheimer’s?

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Out-of-pocket costs put HIV prevention drug out of reach for many at risk

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Under pressure, California lawmakers ban soda taxes for 12 years

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When erratic teenage behavior means something more

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Domestic violence’s overlooked damage: concussion and brain injury

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When is insurance not really insurance? When you need pricey dental care

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Opioid overdoses are rising faster among Latinos than whites or blacks. Why?

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Living apart together: a new option for older adults

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For the babies of the opioid crisis, the best care may be mom's recovery

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Hoping to see your doctor via telemedicine? Here’s a quick guide

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As proton centers struggle, a sign of a health care bubble?

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Tax-funded mental health programs not always easy to find

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‘Rapid autopsy’ programs seek clues to cancer within hours of death

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Hospitals lure diabetes patients with self-care courses, but costs can weigh heavily

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In a Puerto Rican mountain town, hope ebbs and health suffers

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Barbara Bush’s end-of-life decision stirs debate over ‘comfort care’

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‘Scary’ lung disease now afflicts more women than men in U.S.

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What we know and don’t know about memory loss after surgery

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Is there such a thing as normal aging?

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How a drugmaker turned the abortion pill into a rare-disease profit machine

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Health Insurance

Medicare Advantage plans cleared to go beyond medical coverage — even groceries

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Older Americans are hooked on vitamins despite scarce evidence they work

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‘Nightmare bacteria’ stalk U.S. hospitals

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Patient advocacy groups take in millions from drugmakers. Is there a payback?

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Staying alive: How to fight an opioid addiction

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‘Aggressive’ new advance directive would let dementia patients refuse food

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Omissions on death certificates lead to undercounting of opioid overdoses

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Women in medicine shout #MeToo about sexual harassment at work

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Are there risks from secondhand marijuana smoke? Early science says yes

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Medicaid is rural America’s financial midwife

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Medical Condition

Of ‘miracles’ and money: why hemophilia drugs are so expensive

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From the ER to inpatient care — at home

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Machine Learning

The training of Dr. Robot: Data wave hits medical care

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Changing the way we look at dementia

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Postpartum Depression

Nurse calls cops after new mom seeks help for depression. Right call?

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As states target high drug prices, pharma targets state lawmakers

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As marijuana laws relax, doctors say pregnant women shouldn’t partake

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What’s next for ‘safe injection’ sites in Philadelphia?

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States face costly conundrum: how to treat inmates with hepatitis C

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Home care agencies often wrongly deny Medicare help to the chronically ill

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When you need a breast screening, should you get a 3-D mammogram?

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Hospital honchos hone new message in wake of opioid epidemic: expect pain

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