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Free clinics and the uninsured are paying a heavy price for the nation's teetering recovery: More than half of the clinics are now time turning away eligible patients -- many for the first time -- according to an AmeriCares report published Wednesday.

When you were young, Mom and Dad gave you an allowance for doing chores. Now as an adult, can similar incentives get you to take your pills, quit smoking or lose weight? Or to put in another way, could some of the financial elements of NBC's The Biggest Loser get translated into real life? Those...

Most Facebook users debate about whether they should "friend" a co-worker or boss, but what about a doctor? While social networking and e-mail may offer easy access to a doctor who is typically hard to reach, getting too cozy online could carry some serious ramifications -- for both the patient and...

What do you call someone who graduates from medical school at the bottom of the class? Doctor. Yes, an old joke but it rings true. So how can you avoid the kind of surgical mistakes that plague one Rhode Island hospital? Find a hospital with an excellent safety records about their procedures. That...