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What’s Lost: Trump Whacks Tiny Agency That Works To Make the Nation’s Health Care Safer

The AHRQ collects data on U.S. health care expenditures and outcomes and funds research aimed at improving the safety and delivery of care. >

Social Influencers Pushing Unnecessary Health Tests

Influencers are using frightening personal narratives to promote costly medical tests of questionable benefit that can lead to misdiagnoses. >

Helping Doctors Better Meet the Needs of Patients with Disabilities

People with disabilities often find health providers are clueless about the kind of care they need. It just takes a few simple adjustments. >

Payments to Investors Add $Trillions to Healthcare Costs

Healthcare sector companies bent on maximizing shareholder wealth engage in policies that add big costs to the price of health coverage. >

Bariatric Surgery Tightens Belts Two Ways

When overweight diabetics had bariatric surgery, not only did they lose weight, they cut their health care and medication costs in half. >

Do Medicare Advantage Plans Deliver?

Medicare Advantage plans offer things like hearing, eye, and dental coverage that Medicare doesn't. Researchers looked at how they stack up. >

The High Value of An Ounce of Prevention

The ACA made it possible for more Americans to be proactive about their health. A recent study reveals how big the benefits have been. >

Top Health News of 2024: A Call to Arms Against Bird Flu

Avian influenza has recently begun to infect humans. Scientists are developing vaccines against it to prevent a possible pandemic. >

Removing a Splinter? Treating a Wart? If a Doctor Does It, It Can Be Billed as Surgery

Minor interventions have been rebranded and billed as surgery, for profit. These tiny interventions add up to tens of millions of dollars. >

Disappearing Pharmacies

Have you lost a local drug store? About a third have closed. Some counties have lost every store. Here's what you can do to support them. >

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