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By DIANA ZUCKERMAN A major proposed law that alters the way the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves drugs and medical devices has been wending its way through Congress since 2014.  Momentum is building on Capitol Hill to pass the legislation...

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by Marshall Allen and Olga Pierce This story was co-published with The Daily Beast. Over the course of her lifetime, Paula Schulte survived painful scoliosis that contorted her spine, a head injury that left her in a coma for weeks, and cancer that...

A new book lays out the very real dangers each of us faces whenever we enter a hospital. (The following is excerpted from Killer Care: How Medical Error Became America's Third Largest Cause of Death, And What Can Be Done About It by James B. Lieber...

A New Jersey man says his local emergency room charged an arm and a leg to heal a minor cut. Bayonne Medical Center billed Ryan Edgerton and his insurance company just more than $17,000 to treat a 2-inch cut with "five or six stitches" after he accidentally...