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Hospital Night Shift Needs Attention
If you’ve ever had to stay in the hospital for a while, you know how different night and day can be. After sundown the doctors get scarcer, the nurses fewer and the waits for just about everything...

When Primary Care Slips From Less Pay to No Pay
“Every day, I spend at least an hour after my workday to call patients back, to discuss lab results, to discuss test results,” Ryan Mire said. “That’s not compensated.” Mire’s an internist based in...

Buffett Buys on Health Insurance Dips
Textbook Buffett: If shares are plummeting, it might be a good time to buy more. That, perhaps, explains Berkshire Hathaway’s additions to its holdings of UnitedHealth and Wellpoint during the firs...

AMA, Congressional Committe Challenge UnitedHealth Acquisition
A long-running fight over a UnitedHealth deal in Nevada revved up yesterday, with some marquee opponents filing court papers in DC in an effort to block the deal. The insurer’s $2.6 billion acquisi...

Why Are More Breast Cancer Patients Having Mastectomies?
The percentage of breast-cancer patients choosing to have an entire breast removed is increasing, and it’s not entirely clear why, Mayo Clinic doctors say. In 1990, the NIH said that for women with...