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Hospital Owned Practices Increases Spending for Privately Insured

Over the course of the past decade the medical industry has witnessed a trend that has disturbed many health insurers and health economists concerned with the health care spending for privately insured patients: An ever-growing number of hospitals are purchasing

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Un-necessary Surgery for Back Pain a Huge Problem in the US

Five times as many operations for back pain are done in the US, compared with the UK, and twice as many as are done in Canada and Europe. The US has far more neurosurgeons per capita than these areas of

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Do Multiple Sclerosis Drugs Work?

Dr. Rowe reacts to a recent study, which is reporting that the MS drugs widely used to reduce relapses or MS flare-ups, specifically interferon beta, do not slow progression toward disability. 

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