The future is uncertain for a program that trains doctors in underserved communities as it tries to tackle a worsening shortage of primary care physicians.
The Congressional Budget Office released figures showing that the sweeping changes could add more than $140 billion to federal budget deficits in the coming decade.
The World Health Organization on Wednesday reported the lowest weekly total of new Ebola cases so far this year in the three nations of West Africa that have been afflicted by the deadly virus.
Senator Harry Reid of Nevada and other Democrats have begun to undermine what was poised to be a sweeping bipartisan solution to several policy problems that have long vexed Congress.
The patient, a street vendor who lived in a one-bathroom house shared with 52 others in a Monrovia suburb, had sold food last week at a school where more than 1,900 students are enrolled.
The pattern so far suggests a challenge in reaching the goal of enrolling 10 million more eligible people within the next few years.
Half of the households that received subsidies to help pay health insurance premiums last year under the Affordable Care Act will probably have to repay some of that money to the federal government, according to a new analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Reducing or containing Medicare and Medicaid prices can put downward pressure on the prices hospitals can charge to all customers.
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A recent study suggests that some people were able to use areas free of tsetse flies to travel south from East Africa more than 2,000 years ago.
When the disease killing residents of Benin turned out to be Lassa fever, the World Health Organization used protocols for Ebola to stem the illness.
The bacteria that causes the disease can survive for months in amoebae that are common even in human eyes and noses, Colorado State scientists found.
According to Save the Children, it would have cost $1.6 billion to bring health -care up to minimum standards in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
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