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Insurer Signals Confidence in Criticized Cholesterol Drug
United Health Group said it will recommend patients continue using Vytorin, despite cardiologists’ caution that patients use the drug only if others have failed. -
Seeking Alternatives to Animal-Derived Drugs
Concern about the possibility of animal viruses has led to a renewed search for synthetic replacements for certain crucial medicines that are still derived from animal parts. -
Reynolds Ads Say Tobacco Oversight Is Burden F.D.A. Doesn’t Need
The tobacco giant is attacking the F.D.A. as weak and overextended amid a Congressional effort to empower the agency to regulate the tobacco industry. -
National Standards to Rank Physicians Planned
The agreement represents a truce between doctors and health insurers in their longstanding dispute over how health plans rank physicians’ efforts in taking care of patients. -
Vital Statistics: TB Declines, but the Toll Is Still ‘Severe’
The decline in the nation’s tuberculosis rate is slowing. -
Vital Signs: Regimens: Drug Samples Found to Affect Spending
Having doctors distribute free samples of medicines may do encourage patients to spend more money on drugs. -
Insure Me, Please: The Murky Politics of Mind-Body
Mental health insurance parity raises all sorts of tricky questions. Is an ailment a legitimate disease if you can’t test for it? -
Health Plans: Lacking Cure, a New Tack on a Muscle Disease
Rather than concentrate only on a cure for a common form of muscular dystrophy, researchers are now intent on alleviating its effects. -
Managing Outcomes Helps a Children’s Hospital Climb in Renown
The Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has used its focus on rare or complex conditions to emerge as a national name in pediatric medicine, drawing patients from distant cities. -
In Bid for Better Care, Surgery With a Warranty
A hospital group is trying a radically new method to avoid costly mistakes, charging a flat fee that includes follow-up care. -
F.D.A. Reviewing H.I.V. Drugs for Heart Risk
The Food and Drug Administration said that recent data show patients taking H.I.V. drugs from GlaxoSmithKline and Bristol-Myers Squibb may have increased risk of heart attack. -
If Elected ...: Clinton Details Premium Cap in Health Plan
Hillary Rodham Clinton said she would like to limit the cost of health insurance to no more than 10 percent of Americans’ income, a significant reduction for some families.
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