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Coffee appears to be good for your health
In the category of almost too good to believe, coffee appears to be good for your health. The...
Does Pfizer care about malfunctioning EpiPens?
The New York Times reports that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accused Pfizer of...
Beware of researchers with conflicts of interest
When reading about health care, it’s sometimes hard to know who’s telling the truth and...
Why won’t insurers cover some generic drugs?
Some people are finding that they cannot fill their prescriptions for generic drugs at the...
What are Accountable Care Organizations?
Medicare has been experimenting with new payment models to bring down health care costs, improve...
New leukemia drug will cost $475,000
The cost of cancer care now averages over $100,000. That’s more than twice the cost...
Talking to your kids about your stuff
There are so many important conversations for families to have as parents and children get older. A...
Medicare and Medicaid are more cost effective than commercial...
In his latest post for the New York Times, Austin Frakt makes the case that both Medicare and...
What to do if your in-network doctor goes out of network?
It used to be that our health care system valued continuity of care. Insurers covered care from...