Sign-Ups Surge in New York State’s Health Exchange

The burst of interest in New York continued even after the deadline, with enrollments rising to 241,522 as of Monday, officials said. Of those enrollments, 175,146 are in private commercial insurance plans, and 66,376 are in Medicaid, the government...

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The Week: Unsettling News on Knee Surgery, and a Striking Neanderthal Gene

"Houston, you've got yourself a new pump module," Col. Michael S. Hopkins said last Tuesday after some maintenance on the International Space Station. Repairs to the cooling system were needed after a valve malfunctioned, forcing astronauts to dim...

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Social Media as a Megaphone to Pressure the Food Industry

Brendan Bannon for The New York Times Renee Shutters with her son Trenton. She omitted all foods containing petroleum-based dyes from her son's diet a few years ago. Renee Shutters has long worried that food dyes — used in candy like blue M&M's...

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Second Official to Leave After Health Site Trouble

WASHINGTON — The No. 2 official at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, who supervised the troubled rollout of President Obama's health care law, is retiring, administration officials said Monday. The official, Michelle Snyder, is the...

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Roughed Up by an Orca? There’s a Code for That

Bill Starling for The New York Times "If you don't code properly, you don't get paid," said Dr. W. Jeff Terry, a urologist in Mobile, Ala. Know someone who drowned from jumping off burning water skis? Well, there's a new medical billing code for...

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A.D.H.D. Experts Re-evaluate Study’s Zeal for Drugs

Ramin Rahimian for The New York Times Stephen Hinshaw, a University of California, Berkeley, researcher in an influential 1990s study, said skills training should be a priority in A.D.H.D. cases. Twenty years ago, more than a dozen leaders in child...

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The Cancer Divide: India’s Efforts to Aid Poor Worry Drug Makers

NEW DELHI — Alka Kudesia needs an expensive drug to treat her breast cancer, but refuses to tell her children for fear they will take out loans to buy the medicine and spend the rest of their lives in debt. "We're barely able to afford the treatment...

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Well: With A-Fib Rhythms, Higher Odds of Stroke

When a lean, healthy, physically active person has a stroke, seemingly out of the blue, the cause may well be a heart rhythm abnormality called atrial fibrillation. Such was the fate of Pamela Bolen of Brooklyn, then 67, who said she collapsed last...

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The New Old Age Blog: Medicare to Cover More Mental Health Costs

For decades, older adults with depression, anxiety and other psychological conditions have received unequal treatment under Medicare. The program paid a smaller share of the bill for therapy from psychiatrists, psychologists or clinical social workers...

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Vaccine Aide Gunned Down in Pakistan

a Majeed/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Pakistani rescuers transported a health worker who was injured while on duty for an anti-polio vaccination campaign at a hospital in Peshawar on Saturday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A health worker supervising...

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Datapoints: Placing Odds on Your Health (and Its Cost)

What is the chance that you will rack up big health care bills in 2014? For the typical American adult under 65 who does not have health insurance, the total of all health care bills would be $2,700. That's according to calculations by Milliman, an...

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Prototype: A Second Wind From an Injured Knee

When Kim Gustafson moved to Vail Valley in Colorado more than a decade ago, he was 54 and had recently retired as an executive in the office-equipment business. But he wasn't ready to stop working. "I'm not the type of person who wanted to play checkers,"...

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Well: For Fitness, Intensity Matters

Phys Ed Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. This year, exercise science expanded and fine-tuned our understanding of how physical activity affects our brains, joints, hearts, and even genes, beginning before birth and continuing...

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Well: A Nurse Gains Fame in the Days of Polio

In the years after World War II, polls perennially showed that Eleanor Roosevelt was the woman whom Americans admired most in the world. But in a 1951 Gallup poll, that distinction went to an Australian nurse, Elizabeth Kenny, popularly known as Sister...

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Well: Adding Citrus to Salads and Desserts

I always stuff an orange or a tangerine into the toe of my son's Christmas stocking. He is more interested in the chocolate in his stocking and I usually end up eating his orange, but I'll never forego this European tradition that dates from a time when...

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The New Old Age Blog: Medicare to Cover More Mental Health Costs

For decades, older adults with depression, anxiety and other psychological conditions have received unequal treatment under Medicare. The program paid a smaller share of the bill for therapy from psychiatrists, psychologists or clinical social workers...

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Personal Health: How CPR Can Save a Life

Millions of people have been trained in CPR in recent decades, yet when people who aren't in hospitals collapse from a sudden cardiac arrest, relatively few bystanders attempt resuscitation. Only one-fourth to one-third of those who might be helped by...

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Infection Resulting in Amputation Raises Questions About Asian Immigrants’ IV Use

On a recent afternoon, she gestured with her thumb to the spot where the fluid, which was probably dextrose, a form of glucose, or sugar, was inserted. It is the only digit Ms. Jang, 61, has left. Doctors amputated most of her hands and both her legs...

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Vista Workers Told Their U.S. Health Plan Fails Test

Cheryl Gerber for The New York Times "It's as if the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing," said Abby Grosslein, a Vista volunteer in New Orleans. WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has told Vista volunteers and other AmeriCorps...

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Well: Ask Well: Is It Good to Sweat?

A "There's this entrenched idea that it's good to 'sweat things out,'" said Oliver Jay, an associate professor of exercise physiology and director of the Thermal Ergonomics Laboratory at the University of Ottawa in Canada, and by extension, that sweating...

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Well: For Fitness, Intensity Matters

Phys Ed Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. This year, exercise science expanded and fine-tuned our understanding of how physical activity affects our brains, joints, hearts, and even genes, beginning before birth and continuing...

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