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A smartphone app that lets Medicare patients access their claims information. Giving consumers a share of drug company rebates for their prescriptions. Wider access to websites that reliably compare cost and quality of medical tests. The Trump administration is taking…
In the not-too-distant future, your health insurance, your prescription drugs and some of your treatment may come from the same company. Insurers are dropping billions of dollars on acquisitions and expansions in order to get more involved in customer health.…
A new report says mistakes and mismanagement are to blame for the exposure of workers to radioactive particles at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state. Contractor CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. on Thursday released its evaluation of what went…
John Sulston, a Nobel Prize-winning British scientist who helped decode the human genome, has died. He was 75. The Wellcome Sanger Institute, the successor to the cutting-edge genomic research center he once founded and directed, confirmed Friday that Sulston had…
Sometimes help can be found in unexpected places and dressed as a fictional cartoon character. A man dressed in a costume of Princess Elsa from Disney’s animated movie Frozen helped push a police car out from a snow ditch in Boston. The
Atletico Madrid defender Jose Gimenez has found his “new idol” during his trip to Moscow: a half-naked janitor. Jose Gimenez uploaded a video to his Instagram stories showing a half-naked janitor cleaning away snow in Moscow. The footballer was impressed with the janitor…
