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Study: Doctors Order Fewer Lab Tests When They Know The Price

The findings of a new study indicate that doctors will order fewer laboratory tests for their patients if they know the cost of performing said tests.

2013/04/18

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

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Face Transplant Patient Doesn’t Get A 2nd Look Now

A Virginia man who received a full-face transplant says he is now able to walk past people without a second look.

2012/12/04

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A Welcome Let-Up In Health Costs That May Not Last

Americans’ spending on medical goods and services isn’t rising as quickly. Two of the past three years have seen the slowest growth on record. But will it last?

2012/06/18

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10,000 Germ Species Live In And On Healthy People

Scientists have mapped just which critters normally live in or on us and where, calculating that healthy people can share their bodies with more than 10,000 species of microbes.

2012/06/13

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FDA Delays Decision About Drug To Prevent HIV

Federal health regulators have delayed a decision on whether to approve the first pill shown to prevent HIV infection, the drug’s manufacturer says.

2012/06/08

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Planned Parenthood Clinic Sues Anti-Abortion Grandpa

Dick Retta stands outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in downtown Washington three days a week, trying to persuade pregnant women not to get abortions. The 80-year-old grandfather has been coming to the clinic for eight years and said he’s personally persuaded over 400 women to leave this clinic and others.

2012/04/04