Health
Need hospital care or tests? Some ways to get cost estimates
Want to know how much your hospital is going to charge for that knee surgery?
Jan 16, 2019
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Medications
Rising drug costs can be traced to price hikes for older, brand-name medicine
Anyone keeping tabs on how much they spend at the pharmacy knows that drug costs are rising, but what exactly is driving prices upward is often a mystery.
Jan 11, 2019
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Health
Pre-Medicare years bring health insurance worries for many, poll finds
With the dawn of a new year, most Americans have just started a new health insurance coverage period—whether they receive their coverage through a job, buy it themselves or have a government plan.
Jan 3, 2019
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Medications
Health insurers want you to try cheaper drugs first, but that can hurt you
Few people are familiar with the term "step therapy," but most Americans have health insurance policies that adopt it. Step therapy programs, also known as "fail first policies," require patients to try less expensive treatments ...
Jan 3, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Study: Genetic testing guidelines for breast cancer are outdated
Genetic testing guidelines for breast cancer are out-of-date and miss nearly half of patients diagnosed with the malignancy, doctors found in a new analysis of who gets tested and who doesn't.
Dec 13, 2018
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Medical economics
Even among the insured, cost of illness can be devastating, Harvard-backed poll finds
Despite the Affordable Care Act's much-touted expansion of health coverage in the U.S., a first-ever poll of America's seriously ill demonstrates that insurance alone isn't enough to protect against the high cost of care.
Dec 10, 2018
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Health
Improving medical device tracking a slow, imperfect process
For nearly two decades, health advocates have pushed to standardize the way medical devices are tracked and studied.
Nov 26, 2018
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Diabetes
Diabetes patients with high deductible health plans experience delays in seeking care
Research from the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute finds that a population of people with diabetes who were switched to high-deductible health plans ...
Nov 19, 2018
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Neuroscience
Keeping cost from getting in the way of stroke prevention
People who survive a stroke in their 40s, 50s or early 60s may still have decades to live—but only if they take blood thinners, blood pressure drugs and other medications that can reduce their risk of a second stroke.
Aug 27, 2018
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Health
Despite ACA, lesbian, gay and bisexual adults still have trouble affording health care
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly known as Obamacare, has reduced the number of Americans without health insurance from 18 percent to about 13 percent, statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Aug 9, 2018
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