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People in state high-risk insurance plans often feel left behind
The federal health law set up new plans that are cheaper and more comprehensive than the older ones run by states but consumers need to go without insurance for six months to qualify.
Author Archive: Richard Knox
Cheap pill may save lives when given before surgery
Surgery patients at risk of a heart attack can cut their death risk 35% by simply taking a drug called a beta blocker. Cost? $1
Lung cancer screening often raises costly, scary false alarms
An analysis of lung cancer screening results in 3,200 people finds that 21% to 33% of the suspicious nodules found by CT scans are not really cancer.
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