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With Obamacare in limbo, senators look for fix to stabilize health insurance market USA Today With a critical deadline fast approaching, senators began working this week to come up with […]

Fitness May Lower Breast Cancer Risk New York Times Aerobic fitness seems to alter the interior workings of cells in ways that may substantially lower the risk of breast cancer. […]

The Same Agency That Runs Obamacare Is Using Taxpayer Money to Undermine It New York Times The Trump administration said on Thursday that it would slash spending on advertising and […]

Trump Administration Sharply Cuts Spending on Health Law Enrollment New York Times The Trump administration is slashing spending on advertising and promotion for enrollment under the Affordable Care Act, a […]

F.D.A. Approves First Gene-Altering Leukemia Treatment, Costing $475,000 New York Times The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the first-ever treatment that genetically alters a patient’s own cells to […]

The High Cost of Prescription Drugs in the United States Huffington Post Spending on prescription medications is higher in the US, per capita, than in any other country in the […]

Newborns’ hospital care quality may be tied to race Reuters The quality of care provided to critically ill newborns is linked with multiple factors, including – in some hospitals – […]

Major Cuomo donor got state OK for huge health rate hikes Albany Times Union A company whose officials have been major donors to Gov. Andrew Cuomo – and which received […]

400,000 New Yorkers dodged Obamacare health insurance mandate New York Upstate More than 400,000 New Yorkers failed to obtain health insurance in 2015 and many were required to pay tax […]

U.S. study revives argument over mammogram screening Reuters Yearly mammograms starting at age 40 would prevent the most deaths from breast cancer, U.S. researchers reported on Monday in a challenge […]