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Debate is intensifying in Washington over the Obama administration’s health care ambitions. While President Obama has made it clear he wants to use the power of the federal government to make health care available and affordable for all Americans, what exactly such a plan would look like is less clear.

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President Obama wants to overhaul health care reform in the U.S. to aid the 46 million Americans who are currently uninsured. But his plan needs major funding. Some argue that one of the ways to pay for the proposed reform is to tax health care benefits. NPR health policy correspondent Julie Rovner explains what the [...]

A new ad by a major activist group blames the health care system’s ills on greedy insurance companies and promotes a government-backed insurer as the cure. But the diagnosis is flawed.

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atients who have a heart attack and receive clot-busting drugs do better if they are transferred as soon as possible to a hospital that can perform angioplasty, a procedure to open blocked arteries, according to a new study.

For the second time this month, researchers report success using a novel type of anti-cancer pill to curb the growth of inherited tumors that often defy standard treatment.

Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis has confirmed that Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive officer, got a liver transplant there recently.