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There is a seven-county stretch in North Central Florida –an area larger than Puerto Rico –where over the past two years every county health department…
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In addition to treating what ails you, a number of health care systems aim to sell you a health insurance plan to pay for it. With some of the most…
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Brenda Hummel’s 7-year-old daughter Andrea was born with severe epilepsy. Like many children with significant diseases or disabilities, she has health…
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NEW YORK – It is a busy Friday afternoon. Staff members check in guests at the front desk. Other employees lead visitors on tours of the upstairs…
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HARTSVILLE, Tenn. — Lynda Douglas thought she had a deal with Tennessee. She would adopt and love a tiny, unwanted, profoundly disabled girl named Charla.…
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Journalist Steven Brill has spent the last two years examining the question of why healthcare is so expensive in the United States, both in his series of…
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Though blacks still lag whites nationwide in health, disparities have been largely eliminated in the western states, a study finds. Kaiser Permanente's Medicare HMOs did best on that.