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How Chicago is improving HPV vaccination rates
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As health program turns 50, study finds long-term benefits of childhood Medicaid
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As Pa. plans closer scrutiny of prescribing painkillers, help sought for addicted patients
Pennsylvania is planning a prescription drug-monitoring program that allows doctors to check a patient’s history with other health ...
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Two years ago, doctors declared obesity a disease, but critics say, “Don’t pathologize my size!” Two years after the ...
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Coordinated breathing may protect the heart during cancer treatment
The risk for heart trouble after radiation therapy is small, but thousands of breast-cancer patients are exposed. Radiation therap ...
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Delaware lawmaker stepping dow to lead Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Delaware state Rep. Michael Barbieri is used having state officials report to him. On Aug. 4, the tables turn. After eight years a ...
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Mandatory health coaching is sometimes the ‘price’ for lower-cost health coverage
As workplace wellness programs become more popular, some employees are having second thoughts about the bargain they’ve made. ...
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Affordable Care Act achieves birth-control savings
A provision of the Affordable Care Act that was designed to lower the cost of birth control seems to be working. The health law re ...
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Health care collaboratives aim to help Medicaid enrollees in three NJ cities
Three health care collaboratives in New Jersey now have state approval to share patient information in an effort to improve the health of ...
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With help from U.S., Camden to clean up three brownfield sites in city
Camden has new money to clean up three more of the nearly 150 “lightly contaminated” brownfield sites scattered across the ci ...
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Documenting root causes of Philadelphia’s high maternal mortality rate
Philadelphia first began tracking the deaths of new mothers and pregnant women in the 1930s when illegal abortion, blood infections and e ...
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