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Pick Up Dry Cleaning, Buy Shoes, Get Stitches: Freestanding ERs Are Convenient

Pick up dry cleaning, buy shoes, get stitches: Freestanding ERs are convenient

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The speedier care offered at such facilities, which are springing up in many states including Texas, Florida and North Carolina, comes at a steep cost, however. Standalone ERs, which are often located near high-end shopping …. Worried that insurers …
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Bitter Pills series: Controlled Substances Reporting System remains underused

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But even as prescription drug overdoses continue to rise – killing more than 1,000 North Carolina residents in 2011 – doctors and pharmacists do not regularly use a system that could save lives. Fewer than one in three doctors and one in four …
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Cancer Outcomes Tied to Your Genes

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For this study, the researchers looked at 84 African American patients and 1,571 non-African American patients with CLL who were referred to two cancer centers in Houston, TX and Durham, NC. The patients were … The researchers also found that …
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