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Cancer researchers are growing increasingly enthusiastic about harnessing the body's own immune system to fight tumors.
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Scientists have finally recovered stem cells from cloned human embryos, a long-standing goal that could lead to new treatments for such illnesses as Parkinson's disease and diabetes.
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Telemedicine is nothing new, but advancements in technology have made it even more widely available. Neurologists can now treat Parkinson's patients from miles away, therapists can reach service members overseas, and general practitioners can work in rural areas without actually going there at all.
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The first time Jeff Shellan got a cardiac stress test for his troubled heart, the retail price was $2,166. His insurance company agreed to a discounted price of $885, of which Shellan paid $364. When his doctor suggested a retest a year later, the charge was $8,078, the discounted rate was $3,755,...
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New CPR technology put to the test at an Australian hospital has passed with flying colors after a man—clinically dead for 40 minutes—was brought back to life. And he later was discharged with a clean bill of health, absent any disability.
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Some restaurant operators are scaling back expansion plans because of uncertainty about the expense of insuring employees under the new federal healthcare law.
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Actress Angelina Jolie has focused public attention on breast cancer by announcing that because she carries a cancer-causing mutation, she has had a double mastectomy.
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State College, Pa.-based Mount Nittany Health joins a rising number of healthcare facilities nationwide in implementing a robust telemedicine program aimed at improving patient care and satisfaction, as evidenced by two programs that rolled out recently—TeleBurn and TeleStroke.
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Two North Carolina hospitals recently reported operating losses that they say are attributable in part to projected revenue that has been delayed related to problems rolling out their version of the Epic EHR system, particularly with billing, procedure coding and collections.
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Because of the program's history of low payments, fewer than half of U.S. doctors and other healthcare professionals accept Medicaid patients, according to a recent study. For those that do, getting an appointment sometimes can take months because of the high demand, particularly among specialists.
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