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Most Americans now support aggressive regulation to keep health care costs in check -- including price caps on drugs

Poll: Americans Want Health Care Costs Kept in Check

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Suggestions include price controls on drugs, hospitals, and doctors
A new treatment for HIV has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Genvoya -- a tablet containing elvitegravir

FDA Approves Genvoya to Treat HIV-1 Infection

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Medication contains a new form of tenofovir not previously approved by the FDA
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's latest tracking suggests that although gonorrhea resistance to the antibiotic treatment cefixime declined between 2011 and 2013

CDC: Gonorrhea Showing More Resistance to Cefixime

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Other effective treatments remain available, but finding is cause for concern
More Americans than ever are taking prescription drugs

Prescription Medication Use on the Rise in the United States

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Many adults take five or more medications, often for preventable ills
Panel management

AMA: 6 Steps to Help Ensure Patients Get Preventive Care

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Panel management helps physicians provide preventive and chronic care to all patients
Financial and other factors should be considered before physicians change career direction

Doctors Should Consider Financial Factors Before Career Change

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Issues to consider include cost of career change, ability to use Internet to monetize skills
Low-fat diets are no more effective than other types of diets for long-term weight loss

Adherence, Not Diet Type, Predicts Long-Term Weight Loss

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Low-fat diets no more effective than higher-fat diets, researchers say
Women who experience a big increase in hours of sleep each night may face an increased risk of type 2 diabetes

Sleep Patterns May Affect a Woman’s Diabetes Risk

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Researchers say adding two or more hours of sleep each night might be a warning sign
Severe obesity is putting a huge financial strain on both the U.S. Medicaid system and severely obese patients themselves

Severe Obesity in Adults Costs Medicaid $8 Billion Annually

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And health care expenses for heaviest adults is nearly $2,000 more a year per patient
New electronic health record regulations modify Stage 2 of the meaningful use program and finalize requirements for Stage 3

New Electronic Health Record Regulations Released

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New regulations modify Stage 2 of meaningful use program and finalize requirements for Stage 3