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First Opinion

Hospitals can save money on drugs without Washington’s help

By Patrick Yoder

Alex Azar - Senate Finance Committee hearing
Politics

Azar makes case for revamping hospital drug discounts — to hospitals defending them

By Erin Mershon

Health

Sepsis is the third leading cause of death. Can a new blood test change that?

By Karen Weintraub

End-of-life health care spending
Health

Are we spending too much on the dying? New research challenges this widely held view

By Orly Nadell Farber

Atul Gawande Ariadne
Health

Inside Ariadne Labs, Atul Gawande’s testing ground for new ideas in health care

By Ike Swetlitz

Lamar Alexander 340B
Politics

Key lawmaker calls for more scrutiny of hospitals using drug discount program — but no broader changes

By Erin Mershon

Sick Watson
Exclusive

IBM Watson Health hampered by internal rivalries and disorganization, former employees say

By Casey Ross and Ike Swetlitz

Health

A new cancer care dilemma: Patients want immunotherapy even when evidence is lacking

By Casey Ross

Doctor Recording
Health

More patients are taking home recordings of their doctor visits. But who else could listen?

By Casey Ross

Medical Form
In the Lab

Researchers mine emergency contacts to discover genetic clues to disease

By Elizabeth Cooney

Lamar Alexander 340 B
Politics

Taking aim at 340B drug program, lawmakers target both hospitals and pharma

By Erin Mershon

Business

Experts puzzle over Partners-Harvard Pilgrim merger talks

By Priyanka Dayal McCluskey — Boston Globe

Trump healthcare leaders
Politics

Partners, Mayo Clinic among hospital systems quietly advising Trump on improving VA

By Priyanka Dayal McCluskey — Boston Globe

Teaching Hospital Safety
Special Report

The next generation of doctors may be learning bad habits at teaching hospitals with many safety violations

By Max Blau

Health care cost
Hospitals

How to reduce health care costs? Experts say lots of ideas, few successes

By Elizabeth Cooney

Surgery
Hospitals

Survey finds female surgical residents grapple with balancing training, motherhood

By Priyanka Dayal McCluskey — Boston Globe

The Capitol Dome - fog
Politics

Drug makers jostle over potential Medicare changes in congressional spending deal

By Erin Mershon

Empty intravenous pole
Hospitals

Hospitals are confronting a new opioid crisis: an alarming shortage of pain meds

By Casey Ross

Chuck Grassley
Politics

Grassley joins the debate over drug discounts with bill pushing hospitals to disclose payments

By Erin Mershon

Infusion
Health

What’s in the IV bag? Studies show safer option than saline

By Associated Press

Clostridium difficile
Health

Fecal transplants move into the mainstream to treat difficult infection

By Elizabeth Cooney

Boston Children's
Health

Use of placebos on children in study draws researcher’s ire

By Liz Kowalczyk — Boston Globe

Bitcoin
Hospitals

Some clinics allow patients to pay in bitcoin — but find little demand

By Leah Samuel

Hospitals

Hospitals are revolting against the generic drug market. Here’s why

By Casey Ross

Dan Liljenquist
Hospitals

In Utah, an unlikely crusader fights the generic-drug industry with his own free-market approach

By Casey Ross

Hospitals

Why do hospitals bare butts when there are better gowns around?

By Bob Tedeschi

Mayo Clinic-Albert Lea
Hospitals

Paying more and getting less: As hospital chains grow, local services shrink

By Casey Ross

Dave Williams - astronaut
Hospitals

From Rockette, teacher, or astronaut to doctor: When medicine is a second career

By Leah Samuel

2018 flu prep
Hospitals

A severe flu season is stretching hospitals thin. That is a very bad omen

By Helen Branswell

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