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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN  (Original Article) Updated 4:30 PM ET, Wed May 4, 2016 Almost 20,000 people died of hepatitis C in 2014, an all-time high, the CDC says. Story highlights Almost 20,000 people died of hepatitis C in 2014, … Continue reading →

by Paul R. La Monica   @lamonicabuzz UnitedHealthcare, the biggest health insurer in the United States, said Tuesday that it plans to exit most of the Affordable Care Act state exchanges where it currently operates by 2017. The health insurer … Continue reading →

Original Article Here Brand name prescription medications are expensive. That fact shouldn’t be news to anyone. What is new is the rate in which these medications are going up in price. In the last few years the price of nearly … Continue reading →

Posted: 01/08/2016 5:38 pm EST Updated: 01/08/2016 5:59 pm EST (original article) A respected group of cancer specialists developed a chemotherapy program for a breast cancer patient. But then her insurance company denied the claim, so the cancer center stuck … Continue reading →

(Original Article) A photo of Ashley McElveen as a baby hangs on the wall to her left as Karen Driggers places a life-sized toy baby in her arms. On this February day, Ashley is 21, single and 15 weeks pregnant … Continue reading →

(Original Article) Babies in a broad swath of rural South Carolina come into this world with little better chance of survival than a child born in war-torn Syria. They face a toxic mix of poverty, chronically sick mothers, premature birth … Continue reading →

Dr. José Angel Sánchez, now in Paterson, N.J., saw his medical school training as a route out of Cuba to the United States. BRYAN ANSELM FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES By VICTORIA BURNETT and FRANCES ROBLES DECEMBER 19, 2015  (original article) As he came … Continue reading →

By SINDYA N. BHANOO DEC. 7, 2015 (original article) Moderate levels of exercise may increase the brain’s flexibility and improve learning, a new study suggests. The visual cortex, the part of the brain that processes visual information, loses the ability … Continue reading →

By KIRA PEIKOFFDEC. 7, 2015 (original article) Dr. Sam Parnia, the director of resuscitation research at Stony Brook Hospital, compared CPR to driving an outdated automobile. CreditUli Seit for The New York Times If you have a stroke, your odds … Continue reading →

JORDAN GALLOWAYNEW YORK DAILY NEWS 10/05/2015 12:26 PM ET  (original article) Seniors looking to make adjustments to their Medicare coverage during the annual open enrollment period, which takes place every fall from Oct. 15 to Dec. 7, are turning to … Continue reading →