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What happened to the family doctor?

Primary-care doctors take care of the young, the old and the in-between; the sick, the well and the dying. Ideally...

Second person denied AZ transplant coverage dies

A second transplant candidate denied coverage because of state budget cuts has died, and hospital officials say the...

Doctor will Skype you now:More MDs use Web for house calls

Web camera doctors' appointments have their benefits and their drawbacks. Free online video-chat services let doctors...

Repealing the new federal healthcare law will put power back in the hands of insurance companies and take away new...

US alters rule on paying for end-of-life planning

The Obama administration, reversing course, will revise a Medicare regulation to delete references to end-of-life...

More than 2 million Medicare beneficiaries have failed to sign up for a program that could save them thousands of...

A bid to expand eligibility for weight-loss surgery

A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel last month recommended allowing doctors to use the Lap-Band, a less...

Tech turns hospitals into concert halls, diseases into songs

What if, instead of an operating room cluttered with electronic beeps and tones, it were just filled with music? If...

--> Doctors completed the region's first double-hand transplant Wednesday, replacing a man's burned...

Healthcare law backers plan counteroffensive

After months of being pummeled by Republican attacks on the new healthcare law, the Obama administration and its allies...

As the healthcare industry implements reforms that will penalize hospitals for readmissions deemed unnecessary, it’s...