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Are insurance policies saving patients money, or keeping them from the treatment they need?

(By Bob Tedeschi for ST A T) As science makes once-unthinkable treatments available, patients are increasingly facing a harsh reality:

(By Zhai Yun Tan for Kaiser Health News) It was a fourth of July weekend but Sharon O’ Brien ,

(By Eryn Brown for Kaiser Health News) MORENO VALLEY, Calif. — Alfredo David lay in bed, looking deflated under an

(By Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus for ST A T) W hen a bearded dude at a Brooklyn coffee house

(By Janice D. Walker, Catherine L. Annas, and Tom DelBanco for ST A T) T wenty years ago Sunday, President

(By Lindzi Wessell for ST A T) A new study finds striking metabolic differences between fat cells from obese and

(By Leah Samuel for ST A T) B ELMONT, Mass. — Staci Gruber vividly remembers her first hit of marijuana,

(By Sharon Begley for ST A T) Beneath the technical and legal jargon in the latest documents filed in the

(By Helen Branswell for ST A T) H ealth officials now believe the Zika virus is being transmitted by mosquitoes

(By Christine Vestal for The PEW Charitable Trust) AUBURN, Ala. — As the opioid epidemic surges, Alabama’s toxicologists are testing