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What costliest drugs cost commercial insurance plans in 2014 AP A new study from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill examining usage of and spending for specialty prescription drugs by […]

Apple wants to make it easier for you to become an organ donor USA Today Apple says iOS 10 will let users register to be an organ, eye and tissue […]

New Weight-Loss Tactics for the Moderately Obese Wall Street Journal The Food and Drug Administration has recently approved a host of new weight-loss interventions that make millions more people eligible […]

N.Y.’s preposterous single-payer fantasy: Doing the math on Richard Gottfried’s health-care overhaul New York Daily News Proponents of a single-payer health plan for New York pitch it as a cure-all […]

Bikini Medicine No More a Joke With Investment in Women’s Health Bloomberg More female entrepreneurs and investors are focusing on largely unmet medical needs: their own. Read the full article […]

Cuomo and Billy Joel Ride for Breast Cancer Awareness New York Times It is probably safe to say that in the history of bill signings by governors in the State […]

How Telemedicine Is Transforming Health Care Wall Street Journal After years of big promises, telemedicine is finally living up to its potential. Read Full Article Safety-net bill nobody saw coming […]

Many patients at risk for stroke get wrong medicine Reuters More than a third of patients with a heart rhythm problem that can cause a stroke are incorrectly given aspirin […]

U.S. Health-Care Law Just Got Even More Confusing Bloomberg The Supreme Court is supposed to take appellate cases to make the law clearer. Today’s opinion on health-care fraud had the […]

High senior drug costs call for changes Albany Times Union Calling the rising cost of drugs “unsustainable,” congressional advisers on Wednesday recommended major changes to Medicare’s popular outpatient prescription program, […]