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04/03/2008 12:31 AM

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.

04/01/2008 02:21 AM

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.

04/02/2008 02:38 AM

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.

04/02/2008 12:16 AM

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.

03/31/2008 05:53 PM

Vital Statistics: TB Declines, but the Toll Is Still ‘Severe’

The decline in the nation’s tuberculosis rate is slowing.

04/01/2008 12:31 AM

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.

03/30/2008 11:15 PM

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?

02/21/2008 10:22 AM

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.

01/31/2008 12:58 AM

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.

09/24/2007 11:44 AM

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.

03/28/2008 01:09 AM

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.

03/30/2008 07:41 PM

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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