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One in four seniors doesn't discuss end-of-life care
(HealthDay)—More than one-quarter of American seniors have never discussed end-of-life care, a new study finds.
Oct 31, 2016
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Obamacare 2017: A peek behind the numbers
(HealthDay)—As President Barack Obama prepares to leave the White House, his administration is gearing up for another open-enrollment period under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), perhaps the hardest-fought initiative of ...
Oct 31, 2016
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Obamacare 2017: Higher prices, fewer choices
(HealthDay)—Just days before the next enrollment period for health plans offered through the Affordable Care Act, many Americans were jolted by the Obama administration's announcement of a 25 percent price hike, on average, ...
Oct 31, 2016
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Report: More Americans getting health care under Obamacare
(HealthDay)—Even as double-digit hikes in the cost of health plans offered under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) loom for many Americans, a new federal study finds that gaps in access to medical care have been shrinking since ...
Oct 28, 2016
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Cars vs. health: Lancet series on urban planning, public health
Automobiles—and the planning and infrastructure to support them—are making our cities sick, says an international group of researchers now publishing a three-part series in the British medical journal The Lancet.
Oct 13, 2016
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Medications
Steep rise in price of older cancer drugs
(HealthDay)—Many older cancer drugs took a bigger bite out of Medicare and older Americans' wallets last year than five years earlier, a new analysis finds.
Oct 7, 2016
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New paper outlines ways of reducing impacts of pollution, climate change, noise and crime
A new study from Washington University in St. Louis suggests eight interventions that will help create healthier and more sustainable cities of the future, built to reduce the negative impacts of pollution, climate change, ...
Sep 26, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Congress struggles to finish Zika aid, prevent shutdown (Update)
Congressional negotiators on Monday pressed to wrap up a must-do spending bill to prevent an election-season government shutdown and finally provide money to battle the threat of the Zika virus, but numerous sticking points ...
Sep 19, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
CDC may lift Zika travel advisory for Miami neighborhood
(HealthDay)—America's top public health agency could lift its Zika virus travel advisory for the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami as early as Monday, officials said Thursday afternoon.
Sep 16, 2016
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Medications
The pluses and minuses of drugmakers' discount cards
Facing public furor for the price of its emergency allergy shot EpiPen, Mylan Pharmaceuticals quickly pointed to a familiar industry solution: copay discount cards.
Sep 14, 2016
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