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VA Choice Card, Do You Qualify?

A VA Choice Card allows some veterans who have been on “months-long” wait lists to see a VA doctor or

(by Jeff Cohen, WNPR for Kaiser Health News) HARTFORD, Conn. — Carolyn Rossi has been a nurse for 27 years,

(by Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News) A Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist and Harvard oncologist have a proposal to

Depending on whether or not you’re eligible for both programs, you may apply for both Social Security and Medicare simultaneously.

(By April Dembosky, KQED for Kaiser Health News) When California’s aid-in-dying law takes effect this June, terminally ill patients who

A retiree is faced with many decisions including whether or not to take Medicare to cover their healthcare needs. But

Medicare–like Social Security–is on a path to deplete its cash reserves even quicker than Social Security, yet it doesn’t seem

Despite passage of healthcare reform laws, forty-three percent of insured adults in the state of Massachusetts state health care costs

In this week’s issue of the journal Science , a team of genome scientist created a single-celled organism that has

The last of five defendants pleaded guilty for his role in a $33 million Medicare fraud scheme involving Detroit-area home