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Some hospitals have been using low-dose CT scans in recent years to screen patients at high risk for lung cancer even though most payers, including the CMS, still don't reimburse for the tests.
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Science has spoken: Enter a grocery store on an empty stomach at your peril. You are more likely to buy foods with a high calorie count than more healthy options when you're hungry, according to the results of a study published by JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Close your eyes and imagine a world where you could receive a liposuction, magically extract specific cells from the tumbler of excess fat and then inject them into your heart tissue to repair the muscle damage that causes your coronary artery disease.
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Kentucky's Medicaid program will expand to cover hundreds of thousands of additional people, Gov. Steve Beshear said Thursday.
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A controversial new proposal from the Urban Institute to help curb deficit spending by capping the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health coverage could save hundreds of millions of dollars annually, but skeptics say the savings would come at the expense of dramatically altering the health...
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The spreading obesity epidemic, greater intensity of medical care and greater prevalence of chronic disease contributed the most to health spending growth during the better part of the last quarter century, according to new research released this week.
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Many of the current projects at the Boston-based Northeastern Personal Health Informatics program are aimed at giving individuals—particularly people with limited resources—more opportunities to take charge of their health.
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Testing doctors involved in patient deaths or serious complications for drug and alcohol influence should be part of hospitals' procedures for investigating critical incidents, according to a report published by Johns Hopkins researchers in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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A new genetic test can help distinguish between aggressive and low-risk forms of prostate cancer, a study suggested, offering a tool that could enable men to delay or forgo surgery.
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New Medicaid research that garnered widespread attention from national health policy experts has not yet affected the expansion debate at the state level, but it could bolster national policy changes in the program.
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