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Researchers found that hospitalizations for employees and family members dropped dramatically, by 41 percent overall for six major conditions -- but increased outpatient costs erased those savings. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

Study: Workplace Health Care Program Increases Medicine Costs, Outpatient Visits

In what’s being called the most rigorous look yet inside the wellness trend, independent researchers found that hospitalizations for employees and family members dropped dramatically, by 41 percent overall for six major conditions — but increased outpatient costs erased those savings.

2013/03/04

File photo: A nurse attends to newborns in a hospital nursery. (credit: Patrick Lin/AFP/Getty Images)

Bill Would Raise Nurse Staffing Levels in DC

New legislation in the District of Columbia would increase nurse staffing levels at the city’s hospitals.

2013/02/05

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Flu Season Strikes Early and Hard

From the Rocky Mountains to New England, hospitals are swamped with people with flu symptoms.

2013/01/11

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