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More than 70 percent of New Orleans residents say some progress has been made in the availability of medical services since the storm. Still, most say care for the poor continues to lag.
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As consulting a doctor exclusively by phone, text or video becomes more popular, the Texas Medical Board moves to restrict these e-visits. Is the real battle over patient safety, money or turf?
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A study suggests that coordinated care, led by a family doctor who is judicious about referring patients to specialists, leads to cost savings.
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Americans spend billions of dollars every year on annual physicals. But there's little evidence that a yearly checkup helps healthy adults. Some doctors are telling patients to skip it.
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Fewer than one in five doctors has a solo practice these days. But one physician in Virginia saw an opportunity to keep his practice and treat an under-served group of patients: long-haul truckers.
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In January, Medicare started paying primary care providers for non-face-to-face care coordination for parents with two or more chronic illnesses. Care…
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If you've ever made a doctor’s appointment because of severe neck pain, exhaustion, or sinus pressure, only to be told that your symptoms are “normal” or…
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On this week's edition of Sound Medicine, we hear from palliative care physician Larry Cripe on how his daughter's life-threatening injury changed his…
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To most patients in the U.S., the way Dr. P.J. Parmar runs his primary care clinic for refugees in Aurora, Colo. may seem strange: "When a patient walks…
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Primary care providers (PCPs) report many challenges to integrating genetics services into routine primary care, according to research published today in…