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New Tool May Help Identify Adults at Risk for Sudden Cardiac Arrest New Tool May Help Identify Adults at Risk for Sudden Cardiac Arrest New Tool May Help Identify Adults at Risk for Sudden Cardiac Arrest New Tool May Help Identify Adults at Risk for Sudden Cardiac Arrest

New Tool May Help Identify Adults at Risk for Sudden Cardiac Arrest

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Are Backyard Chicken Coops Causing Salmonella Outbreaks?
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Are Backyard Chicken Coops Causing Salmonella Outbreaks?

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A Healthy and Healing Meditation for the Solar Eclipse
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A Healthy and Healing Meditation for the Solar Eclipse

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The Challenges of Having a Baby in Rural America
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The Challenges of Having a Baby in Rural America

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We Escaped the City for Farm Sanctuary
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We Escaped the City for Farm Sanctuary

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5 Things Your Personal Trainer Wishes You Knew
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5 Things Your Personal Trainer Wishes You Knew

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Health Care

New Program Aims to Keep OB/GYNs in Rural America New Program Aims to Keep OB/GYNs in Rural America New Program Aims to Keep OB/GYNs in Rural America New Program Aims to Keep OB/GYNs in Rural America

Program Aims to Keep OB/GYNs in Rural America

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CVS Charges More for Generic Drugs Paid for With Insurance, Lawsuit Claims

CVS Accused of Jacking Up Drug Cost for the Insured

U.S. news
Puerto Rico's Exodus of Doctors Adds Health Care Strain to Dire Financial Crisis

Doctors Are Fleeing Puerto Rico Amid Debt Crisis

Latino
United Apologizes, Reverses Truvada Policy After HIV Activists Push Back

United Apologizes, Reverses Policy for HIV Prevention Med

NBC OUT
Government-Run Health Care: Democrats' New Litmus Test

Government-Run Health Care: Democrats' New Litmus Test

Democrats vs. Trump
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Mental Health

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Can Your Instagram Photos Reveal That You're Depressed? Can Your Instagram Photos Reveal That You're Depressed? Can Your Instagram Photos Reveal That You're Depressed? Can Your Instagram Photos Reveal That You're Depressed?

What Your Instagram Photos Say About Your Mental Health

Mental Health
Try This Healing Meditation During the Solar Eclipse

A Solar Eclipse Meditation for Health and Healing

Mental Health
Psychology of the Eclipse: Feeling 'Connected With Everybody'

Can 'Great American Eclipse' Bring Us Together?

TODAY.com
How to Tell If Someone is Lying, According to Behavioral Experts

How to Spot a Liar (From Experts Who Do It for a Living)

Mental Health
'Depression Naps': Are They Unhealthy?

'Depression Naps': Are They Unhealthy?

TODAY.com
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Men's Health

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Plunging Sperm Counts a 'Major Public Health' Crisis Plunging Sperm Counts a 'Major Public Health' Crisis Plunging Sperm Counts a 'Major Public Health' Crisis

Men, Your Sperm Count Has a Problem

Men's Health
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Nearly Untreatable Gonorrhea Spreading Globally

Nearly Untreatable Gonorrhea Spreading Globally

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Free Sunscreen Dispensers Pop Up Across U.S.
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If the Sunscreen Is Free, Will Beachgoers Use It?

Cancer
9 Common Myths About Food Poisoning

9 Common Myths About Food Poisoning

TODAY.com
Want to Lose Weight? Weigh Your Food for a Week

Want to Lose Weight? Weigh Your Food for a Week

Men's Health
This Is What Keeps Modern Dads Up at Night

Survey Reveals 'Dad Guilt' May Be on the Rise

Men's Health
Want to Lose Weight? Weigh Your Food for a Week

Want to Lose Weight? Weigh Your Food for a Week

Men's Health
Fluid Leaking From Brain into Ear is Linked to Obesity

Fluid Leaking From Brain into Ear Linked to Obesity

TODAY.com
Fluid Leaking From Brain into Ear is Linked to Obesity

Fluid Leaking From Brain into Ear Linked to Obesity

TODAY.com
Teens Don't Know Enough About Love, Sex or Misogyny, Study Finds

Teens Don't Know Enough About Love, Sex or Misogyny, Study Finds

College Game Plan
More Proof Exercise Is the Elixir Your Body Needs to Stay Healthy

More Proof Exercise Is the Elixir Your Body Needs to Stay Healthy

TODAY.com

Women's Health

New Program Aims to Keep OB/GYNs in Rural America New Program Aims to Keep OB/GYNs in Rural America New Program Aims to Keep OB/GYNs in Rural America New Program Aims to Keep OB/GYNs in Rural America

Program Aims to Keep OB/GYNs in Rural America

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Women Open Up About Hair Loss: 'It's Not Spoken About'

Women Open Up About Hair Loss

TODAY.com
Federal Judge Blocks Stricter Arkansas Abortion Law Before Restrictions Take Effect

Federal Judge Blocks Stricter Arkansas Abortion Law

U.S. news
Abortion Fight Rages in Kentucky, Where Only 1 Clinic Remains

Abortion Fight Rages in Kentucky, Which Only Has 1 Clinic

U.S. news
Battling Dementia: A Mother and Son's Incredible Journey

Son Charts Mom's Heartbreaking Descent Into Dementia

U.S. news
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Kids Health

Katie Cameron
High Blood Pressure Diagnoses Could Increase Among Teens, Kids High Blood Pressure Diagnoses Could Increase Among Teens, Kids High Blood Pressure Diagnoses Could Increase Among Teens, Kids

Hypertension: 'Silent Killer' on the Rise Among Teens, Kids

Nightly News
New Program Aims to Keep OB/GYNs in Rural America

Program Aims to Keep OB/GYNs in Rural America

Nightly News
After Daughters' Deaths, Moms Urge Parents to Consider Meningitis B Vaccine

Meningitis B Killed Their Daughters. Now These Moms Have a Message

College Game Plan
Teens Risk Eye Infections With Contact Lens Habits, CDC Says

Most Contact Lens Wearers Have Bad Habits - CDC

TODAY.com
OpEd: Dear Black Parents, Investing in Swimming Lessons Saves Lives

OpEd: Dear Black Parents, Invest in Swimming Lessons

NBCBLK
Teen Drug Overdoses Doubled From 1999 to 2015, CDC Reveals

Teen Drug Overdoses Doubled From 1999 to 2015, CDC Reveals

America's Heroin Epidemic
OpEd: Dear Black Parents, Investing in Swimming Lessons Saves Lives

OpEd: Dear Black Parents, Invest in Swimming Lessons

NBCBLK
How to Stop Helicoptering and Start Disciplining Your Kids Effectively

Why We Need to Let Our Kids Fall, Scrape and Fail

Kids' Health
How Parents Can Keep Teens Eating Healthy After Leaving Home

How Parents Can Keep Teens Eating Healthy After Leaving Home

College Game Plan
Ear Infections Are Way Down and This Vaccine May be the Reason

Ear Infections Are Down and Vaccine May Be Why

TODAY.com
Kids as Young as 4 Find Safe Space at Transgender Day Camp

Children Find Safe Space at Transgender Day Camp

NBC OUT

Parenting

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11 Things I Wish You Knew About My Child-Free Marriage 11 Things I Wish You Knew About My Child-Free Marriage 11 Things I Wish You Knew About My Child-Free Marriage 11 Things I Wish You Knew About My Child-Free Marriage

What I Wish You Knew About My Child-Free Marriage

Parenting
7 Surprising Benefits of Being Older Parent

The Surprising Perks of Being an Older Parent

Parenting
Latino Kids Lag in Math Skills, But Here Are Ways to Narrow the Gap

Latino Kids Lag in Math Skills, But Here Are Ways to Narrow the Gap

Latino
Eye Injuries Linked to Liquid Laundry Packets Surge Among Kids

Child Eye Injuries Linked to Laundry Pods Surge

TODAY.com
How Much Does It Cost to Have a Kid? Try $13,000 a Year

Here's How Much It Costs to Raise a Child These Days

Health news
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Cold & Flu

College-Bound? It's Time to Get Your Shots and Have 'The Talk' College-Bound? It's Time to Get Your Shots and Have 'The Talk' College-Bound? It's Time to Get Your Shots and Have 'The Talk' College-Bound? It's Time to Get Your Shots and Have 'The Talk'

College-Bound? It's Time to Get Your Shots and Have 'The Talk'

College Game Plan
Needle-Free Flu Vaccine Patch Works as Well as a Shot

Needle-Free Flu Patch Works as Well as a Shot

Health news
Caterpillar-Grown Flu Vaccine Protects Better Than Egg-Incubated Vaccine

How Caterpillars Could Help Fight Killer Flu

Health news
CDC Still Stumped by Cause of Mystery Paralysis in Kids

CDC Still Stumped by Mystery Paralysis in Kids

Health news
The Frog Slime Cure for Flu

Frog Slime Compound Kills Flu

Health Care
Most Kids Who Died of Flu Weren't Vaccinated, Study Finds

Most Kids Who Died of Flu Weren't Vaccinated: Study

Health news
CDC Concerned by H7N9 Bird Flu's Sudden Spread in China

CDC Concerned by H7N9 Bird Flu's Sudden Spread in China

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Flu Vaccine Protects About Half the Time, CDC Says

Flu Vaccine Protects Only About Half, CDC Says

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Spread of H7N9 Bird Flu Worries Officials in China

H7N9 Bird Flu Worries Officials in China

Health news

Body Odd

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Surgeons Remove Parasitic Twin From Baby Girl Surgeons Remove Parasitic Twin From Baby Girl Surgeons Remove Parasitic Twin From Baby Girl

Surgeons Remove Parasitic Twin From Baby Girl

Body Odd
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How to Protect Your Scalp From Sunburn

How to Protect Your Scalp From Sunburn

TODAY.com
6 Important Things Your Body Might Be Trying to Tell You

6 Important Things Your Body Might Be Trying to Tell You

TODAY.com

Patient Gets Seizure From Solving Sudoku Puzzle

Body Odd
#GOTscience: 'Game of Thrones' Plot Raises a Grisly Burning Question

#GOTscience: 'Game of Thrones' Raises Burning Question

Weird Science
Sun Salute: Millions Around World Bend and Twist for Yoga Day

Sun Salute: Millions Bend and Twist for World Yoga Day

World
#GOTscience: 'Game of Thrones' Plot Raises a Grisly Burning Question

#GOTscience: 'Game of Thrones' Raises Burning Question

Weird Science
Smell You Later! The Surprising Reason We Shake Hands

Sniff Test: The Surprising Reason We Shake Hands

TODAY.com
Germs of the New York Subway: Scores of Mysterious Microbes Found

What's Riding the NY Subway? Scores of Mysterious Microbes

Health news
'War Game': Mom Sues Pop Warner Football Over Son's Suicide

'War Game': Mom Sues Pop Warner Over Son's Suicide

U.S. news
This Is How Much Sleep You Should Be Getting
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This Is How Much Sleep You Should Be Getting

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Aging

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Glen Campbell a 'Striking Example' of Alzheimer's Quirks Glen Campbell a 'Striking Example' of Alzheimer's Quirks Glen Campbell a 'Striking Example' of Alzheimer's Quirks Glen Campbell a 'Striking Example' of Alzheimer's Quirks

Glen Campbell's Alzheimer's Didn't Change Him

TODAY.com
Here's How Sleep Loss Can Affect Alzheimer's

Here's How Sleep Loss Can Affect Alzheimer's

Health news
Shingles May Raise Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke, New Study Finds

Shingles May Raise Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke

TODAY.com
Black, Gray and Gay: The Perils of Aging LGBTQ People of Color

Black, Gray and Gay: The Perils of Aging LGBTQ People of Color

NBCBLK
What Can Prevent Alzheimer's? Here's What the Evidence Shows

These Three Things May Be Best Hope for Delaying Memory Loss

Nightly News
Medicare Starts Replacing Social Security Numbers on ID Cards

New Medicare Cards Won't Carry Social Security Numbers

Health Care
Alzheimer's Disease Deaths Up 55 Percent in Recent Decades

Alzheimer's Disease Deaths Up 55 Percent

Health news
Taking Care of Aging Parents: The Legal and Financial Details You Need to Know

Taking Care of Aging Parents: The Legal and Financial Details You Need to Know

Personal Finance
Diet Sodas May Raise Risk of Dementia and Stroke, Study Finds

Could Diet Sodas Raise Risk of Dementia and Stroke?

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Heart Health

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The Century Old Heart Test That May Predict Sudden Cardiac Death The Century Old Heart Test That May Predict Sudden Cardiac Death The Century Old Heart Test That May Predict Sudden Cardiac Death

An Old Heart Test May Help Prevent Sudden Cardiac Death

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Too Many People Stop Their Lifesaving Statins, Doctors Say

Why Are So Many People Stopping Their Statins?

Heart Health
New Heart Imaging Method May Predict Heart Attacks

New Imaging Method May Predict Heart Attacks

Health Care
Just About Every Major Medical Group Hates the GOP Health Care Plans

Why Medical Groups Hate the GOP Health Care Plans

Health Care
'Run4AllWomen' Inspires Women to Use Running to Foster Change

Alison Désir Says Running Is a Political Act

NBCBLK
Women Skip Doctor Visits and Miss Their No. 1 Health Risk

Women Skipping Doctor Visits To Lose Weight First

Health news
'Run4AllWomen' Inspires Women to Use Running to Foster Change

Alison Désir Says Running Is a Political Act

NBCBLK
Good Fats as Helpful as Statins Against Heart Disease, Group Says

Coconut Oil Isn't a Good Fat and Never Was

Health news
Heart Disease Risks Often Overlooked in Chinese Americans: Study

Heart Disease Risks Often Overlooked in Chinese Americans: Study

Asian America
Heart Attack Risk With Painkillers Starts Within a Week: Study

Painkillers Raise Heart Attack Risk Within a Week

Health news
Jimmy Kimmel Reveals Newborn Son Survived Heart Surgery

'Well Said, Jimmy': Obama Responds to Kimmel's Tribute to Ill Son, ACA

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Sexual Health

Dimitri O'Donnell
'Honest Talk' About Sex: This Colombian Teacher Turned the Tide on Teen Pregnancies 'Honest Talk' About Sex: This Colombian Teacher Turned the Tide on Teen Pregnancies 'Honest Talk' About Sex: This Colombian Teacher Turned the Tide on Teen Pregnancies 'Honest Talk' About Sex: This Colombian Teacher Turned the Tide on Teen Pregnancies

'Honest Talk' About Sex: Colombian Teacher Turns Tide on Teen Pregnancies

Latino
A Third of U.S. Men Use Condoms, but Not Every Time

A Third of Men Use Condoms, but Not Always

Health news
United Apologizes, Reverses Truvada Policy After HIV Activists Push Back

United Apologizes, Reverses Policy for HIV Prevention Med

NBC OUT
Teen Vogue's 'Guide to Anal Sex' Spawns Backlash

Teen Vogue's 'Guide to Anal Sex' Spawns Backlash

NBC OUT
Meningitis Vaccine Protects Against Gonorrhea, Too

Meningitis Vaccine Protects Against Gonorrhea, Too

Health news
Sexual Bullying May Lie Deep in Our DNA, Baboon Study Shows

Sexual Harassment May Lie Deep in Our DNA

Health news
Nearly Untreatable Gonorrhea Spreading Globally

Nearly Untreatable Gonorrhea Spreading Globally

Health news
Teens Are Having Sex Later, Using Contraception, CDC Finds

Teens Are Waiting Longer to Have Sex, CDC Report Finds

Kids' Health
Nonprofit Groups Battle Sexual Health Stigma in South Asian Community

Nonprofit Groups Battle Sexual Health Stigma in South Asian Community

Asian America

Allergies

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Scientists Home in on Eczema-Causing Germs Scientists Home in on Eczema-Causing Germs Scientists Home in on Eczema-Causing Germs

These Bacteria Might be Causing Eczema

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Allergists Warn About Shortages of Insect Sting Medication

Warning About Shortages of Insect Sting Extract

TODAY.com
Yes, There Really Are Millions of Tiny, Dead Bugs in Your Pillows

There Are Millions of Tiny, Dead Bugs in Your Pillows

TODAY.com
NIH Wants to Test New Bacteria Therapy for Eczema

Why the NIH Wants to Spray Germs on Kids' Skin

Health news
Allergic to Peanuts? Tree Nuts May Be OK

Think You're Allergic to Nuts? You May Not Be

Health news
New Eczema Drug Dupixent wins FDA Approval

FDA Approves New Eczema Drug

Nightly News
Allergic to Peanuts? Tree Nuts May Be OK

Think You're Allergic to Nuts? You May Not Be

Health news
New Peanut Allergy Guidance: Most Kids Should Try Peanuts

Feeding Babies Peanut Prevents Allergies: New Guidelines

Health news
How Bad Are Food Allergies? We Don't Know, Experts Say

Americans May Exaggerate Food Allergies

Health news
Mislabeled Ice Cream Recalled in 25 States

Mislabeled Ice Cream Recalled in 25 States

NBC New York
Could Generic EpiPen Actually Make More Money for Mylan?

Could Generic EpiPen Actually Make More Money for Mylan?

CNBC

Cancer

Lucas Jackson / Reuters file
Woman Gets $417 Million Verdict From Johnson & Johnson in Baby Powder Cancer Suit Woman Gets $417 Million Verdict From Johnson & Johnson in Baby Powder Cancer Suit Woman Gets $417 Million Verdict From Johnson & Johnson in Baby Powder Cancer Suit Woman Gets $417 Million Verdict From Johnson & Johnson in Baby Powder Cancer Suit

Johnson & Johnson Hit With $417 Million Verdict in Cancer Suit

Health news
Blood Test Finds Cancer Before Symptoms Start

Blood Test May Find Cancer Before Symptoms Start

Health news
Deaths From Colon Cancer Are up in Younger, White People

More Younger Americans Dying of Colon Cancer

Health news
McCain Flies Back to Senate. Is It Too Soon After Surgery?

How Safe Is It for Sen. John McCain to Fly?

Cancer
New Drug Treats Same Type of Brain Cancer Sen. John McCain has

Could New Brain Tumor Drug Help Sen. John McCain?

Nightly News
What Is Glioblastoma? McCain's Brain Tumor Is an Aggressive Type of Cancer

What Is Glioblastoma? McCain's Brain Tumor Is an Aggressive Type of Cancer

Cancer
FDA Advisers Say Yes to Experimental Personalized Cancer Therapy

FDA Advisers Say Yes to Experimental Cancer Therapy

Nightly News
New Gene Therapy for Cancer Offers Hope to Those With No Options Left

New Gene Therapy Shows Promise for Dire Cancer Cases

Nightly News
Free Sunscreen Dispensers Pop Up Across U.S.
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If the Sunscreen Is Free, Will Beachgoers Use It?

Cancer

Diabetes

Andrew Harnik / AP File
Five Die While Using Obesity Devices, FDA Says Five Die While Using Obesity Devices, FDA Says Five Die While Using Obesity Devices, FDA Says

5 Die While Using Weight Loss Balloons, FDA Says

Health news
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Cancer Drug Gleevec Might Slow Type-1 Diabetes

Cancer Drug Might Slow Type-1 Diabetes

Health news
Lab Report: Gene Researchers Map Out Dog Family Tree

Dogs Get Their Very Own Family Tree

Health news
Diet Sodas May Raise Risk of Dementia and Stroke, Study Finds

Could Diet Sodas Raise Risk of Dementia and Stroke?

Nightly News
New in Wearable Health Tech: A Wrist Sensor That Works Up a Sweat

Wearable Health Tech: New Wrist Sensor Works Up a Sweat

Health news
What's Behind the Huge Spike in Insulin Costs? Insurers and Drug Makers Blame Each Other
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What's Behind the Huge Spike in Insulin Costs?

Nightly News
New in Wearable Health Tech: A Wrist Sensor That Works Up a Sweat

Wearable Health Tech: New Wrist Sensor Works Up a Sweat

Health news
Trump Budget Cuts to Scientific, Medical Research Would Have 'Devastating' Effect: Experts

'Devastating': Trump's Budget Slashes Medical, Scientific Research

Nightly News
New Obesity Gene Identified for Some People of African Descent

This Gene Makes Some African-Americans, Africans Heavier

Health news
These 10 Foods Affect Your Risk of Heart Disease the Most

These 10 Foods Affect Heart Disease the Most

Heart Health
Eat Around the Clock? Take Care, Heart Association Says

Americans Need to Time Their Eating, Heart Experts Say

Today.com

Obamacare

Lannis Waters / The Palm Beach Post via Zuma Press
Florida Drug Treatment Center Operators Busted in Crackdown Florida Drug Treatment Center Operators Busted in Crackdown Florida Drug Treatment Center Operators Busted in Crackdown Florida Drug Treatment Center Operators Busted in Crackdown

Florida Drug Treatment Center Operators Busted in Crackdown

Health Care
'Better Care' Act is No Such Thing, Top Medical Journal Says

'Better Care' Act No Such Thing, Medical Journal Says

Health Care
Graham Suspicious of GOP Senators Being Bought off Over Health Bill
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Graham Suspicious of GOP Senators Being Bought off Over Health Bill

Congress
Florida's Billion-Dollar Drug Treatment Industry Is Plagued by Overdoses, Fraud

The Rehab Capital of America Is Plagued by Overdoses, Fraud

NBC INVESTIGATION
Senate Republicans Weigh in on Pros, Cons of Health Care Bill
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Senate Republicans Weigh in on Pros, Cons of Health Care Bill

Congress
Republican Senators to Get Their Health Care Bill This Week

Republican Senators to Get Their Health Care Bill This Week

Congress
Obamacare Architect: Healthcare Law's Mistakes are Still Fixable

Obamacare Architect Points to Mistakes in Law

Meet the Press
The Senate's Health Care Bill Remains Shrouded in Secrecy

Senate Health Care Bill Remains Shrouded in Secrecy

Congress
GOP Health Care Law Could Cost Nearly 1 Million Jobs, Report Finds

GOP Health Law Could Cost Nearly 1 Million Jobs, Report Finds

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