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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.  (original article) OCTOBER 20, 2014 Federal officials announced new guidelines on Monday evening for the protection of hospital workers caring for patients infected with Ebola — guidelines that might have prevented the infection of two … Continue reading →

      Dear Friend of LLS, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) won’t rest until we find permanent cures for blood cancers. And to fortify that goal, LLS partners with both pharmaceutical and research organizations to fund promising studies … Continue reading →

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina inmate with mental illness who died of thirst was held in solitary confinement for 35 days and cited twice for flooding his cell, according to prison records. Inmate Michael Anthony Kerr was found … Continue reading →

By CHARLES ORNSTEIN SEPTEMBER 17, 2014 From NYTimes.com Health insurance companies are no longer allowed to turn away patients because of their pre-existing conditions or charge them more because of those conditions. But some health policy experts say insurers may be doing … Continue reading →

CreditRoman Muradov  From NYTimes.com Most news coverage of the new Kaiser Family Foundation annual survey on employer-sponsored health plans has focused on the fact that growth in premiums in 2013 was as low as it has ever been in the … Continue reading →

McBaine, a cancer detection dog. PENN VET WORKING DOG CENTER By JOSHUA A. KRISCH SEPTEMBER 10, 2014 PHILADELPHIA — McBaine, a bouncy black and white springer spaniel, perks up and begins his hunt at the Penn Vet Working Dog Center. His nose skims … Continue reading →

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE AUG. 10, 2014 SPARTA, N.J. — When Gail Morris came home late one night after taking her daughter to college, she saw her teenage son, Alex, asleep on the sofa in the family room. Nothing seemed amiss. An … Continue reading →

A new drug for the liver disease hepatitis C is scaring people. Not because the drug is dangerous — it’s generally heralded as a genuine medical breakthrough — but because it costs $1,000 a pill and about $84,000 for a … Continue reading →

When cases of a potentially fatal strain of meningitis began cropping up at Princeton last year, university officials trying to stop its spread could recommend little beyond precautions like frequent handwashing and not sharing beverage containers. Although a vaccine against … Continue reading →

The head of the Assembly Health Committee has blasted as unjustified the proposed double-digit rate increases New York insurers are requesting for new ObamaCare policies — and called for a probe into possible bait-and-switch tactics. Manhattan Assemblyman Richard Gottfried on … Continue reading →