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WASHINGTON — Both Democratic and Republican senators who oversee federal spending seemed skeptical of proposed cuts to health research and public health in the White House’s budget, potentially teeing up a congressional

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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will ask states to create new plans to verify medical providers paid by federally funded health care programs as part of a broad effort to combat fraud

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In outpatient medicine, decisions move quickly. A prescription is sent to a pharmacy. A referral goes out to a specialist. A test is ordered. From the patient’s perspective, the process feels immediate.

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SAN DIEGO — Alison Cameron spent close to a decade fighting to keep her myeloma under control. She’d been diagnosed with smoldering multiple myeloma, a precursor to cancer, and received infusions to

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SAVANNAH, Ga. — For Nikolas Indigo, the road to freedom was lined with warnings against a life of sin. Neither the road nor the message was a metaphor. Along nearly 250 miles