U.S. split on "socialized medicine": poll
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Most Democrats say "socialized medicine" would be better than the current U.S. health care system, while most Republicans say it would be worse, a poll by the Harvard School of Public Health showed on Thursday.
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Do not always expect straight talk from your doctor about treatments he or she disapproves of -- 14 percent of physicians believe it is acceptable to withhold information about controversial topics, according to a study published on Wednesday.
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Race appears to be a factor in how doctors communicate with their patients, according to a new study of primary care visits conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine.
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A series of surprising findings about some of the most widely accepted assumptions in medicine has renewed debate about how aggressively doctors use drugs to prevent and treat some of the nation's leading health problems.
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MONDAY, Sept. 24 (HealthDay News) -- The vast majority (86 percent) of American parents participate in medical decisions made about their children while in hospital, a new study finds.
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Health care is the most popular stock   market sector among U.S. market strategists, who otherwise are   divided over the market's direction, Barron's reported in its   September 4th edition.
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Rising obesity rates and the number of people without health insurance are placing a drag on health gains for the American population, according to the results of a survey released Monday.
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Members of the American Medical Association&#39;s House of Delegates during an annual meeting in Atlanta on Sunday debated whether to endorse the reimportation of lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada and some other nations, the AP/San Francisco Chronicle
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WASHINGTON  - Rising obesity rates and the  number of people without health insurance are placing a drag on  health gains for the American population, according to the  results of a survey released Monday.
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GAITHERSBURG, Maryland  - A U.S. advisory panel on Friday was divided over whether current data warrant changes to drug-coated heart stent labels for their use in patients with more medical complications unapproved for the device.
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Question: If government and business leaders do their part to lower the cost of health insurance, should people be required to sign up?
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The United States has the best health care system in the world, but financial barriers prevent too many Americans from getting the affordable coverage they need.
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Just over 44 percent of Americans use at least one prescription drug, and nearly 17 percent take at least three, according to a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey released Thursday.
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Nearly 70 percent of Americans say they are careful about what they eat, and even more say diet is essential to good health, according to a new nationwide health poll in which
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It&#39;s time Gray Matters put up or shut up, instead of merely complaining about what passes for the American health care system.
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As the two parties brace for the coming debate over restructuring Social Security, polls and focus groups for both sides have shown that voters -- especially older ones, who vote in disproportionately heavy numbers -- distrust any change that has the word "private" attached to it.
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A new poll shows that the overwhelming majority of Americans favor allowing the government to negotiate prescription drug prices for the Medicare program, suggesting there will be considerable political pressure on the next Congress to do so.