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UA alum, her husband, both lose lower left legs in Boston bombing
Only the most seriously injured of the 188 marathon bombing patients remain hospitalized. UA graduate Jessica Kensky Downes and her husband, Patrick Downes, are among them.
Boston bombing: UA grad, husband face amputation rehab together
Only the most seriously injured of the 188 marathon bombing patients remain hospitalized. Patrick Downes and Jessica Kensky Downes are among them.
Doctors delivering babies early much less often, survey finds
WASHINGTON - Doctors have been warned for decades about the dangers of delivering babies early without medical reasons, but the practice remained stubbornly persistent.
The costly side of pill coupons
A magazine ad for the testosterone drug AndroGel shows a discount card that allows consumers to pay "as little as $10 per month" for the medicine.
Walk-in clinics grow in popularity, but trend raises care concerns
When Emily Auerswald and her children need care for minor illnesses or injuries, they head to a shopping center near Annapolis, Md., that has a Starbucks, a Five Guys hamburger joint and an urgent care center.
US medical system is ill-equipped to treat addiction
They are seen every day in doctors' offices, outpatient clinics and hospital emergency rooms: men in their 50s with bleeding ulcers; young adults pulled from car crashes; middle-aged women fighting a losing battle against chronic pain.
Medicare's evaluations prompt hospital worry
Patients flock to many of America's teaching hospitals seeking the most advanced treatments for serious and complex diseases. But once there, they are at heightened risk for preventable complications, according to Medicare's first public evaluation of hospitals' records on patient safety.
Can Walmart revamp primary care?
In-store medical clinics like those at Walmart established a beachhead with relatively healthy patients looking for convenient, low-cost care for simple problems.
'Compact' seen as way to thwart health laws
WASHINGTON - State governors and legislators opposed to the federal health-care law are eyeing a novel approach to escape its provisions: joining an "interstate compact" that would replace federal programs - including Medicare and Medicaid - with block grants to the states.
Vote turns tables for conservative seniors' group
WASHINGTON - Legendary crooner Pat Boone, the national spokesman for the 60 Plus Association, a self-described conservative seniors group, announced in early May that GOP congressional candidate Jane Corwin had won the group's Honorary Guardian of Seniors' Rights award.
How new health bill may affect you
WASHINGTON - Now that the Senate has passed a hotly debated health-care bill, Congress is headed to the next step: House of Representatives-Senate negotiations in January to hammer out a final version.
Reduce costs by improving health
As President Obama and Congress struggle to bend the rising cost curve in order to make health care available to all Americans, the history of the first great expansion of health-care coverage when Lyndon Johnson drove Medicare and Medicaid through Congress in 1965 offers critical lessons.
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