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If you don’t have a regular doctor, you’ve got a few different options for finding medical care. In this week’s Health Minute, MarketWatch’s Kristen Gerencher looks at the advantages and disadvantages of urgent-care centers.
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At the risk of generalizing about the needs of working mothers, we think its fair to say that they not only want to find meaningful employment at a good salary, with comprehensive benefits but they also have specific needs that are unique to raising a family. Working mothers, across [...]
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President continues pressure on legislators to give overhaul plan an up-down vote.
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The cost of flood insurance is based on many factors. First and foremost, of course, is the location of the building. But the folks at the Federal Emergency Management Administration tell me that there are other considerations besides the potential for and estimated severity of flooding in a specific area. [...]
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I’m not the first one to note that health insurers’ use of the term “explanation of benefits” is an oxymoron. For my part, when I get an EOB in the mail, I scan quickly to the “patient owes” part and pretty much skip the rest.
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The earthquakes in Haiti and Chile remind us about how vulnerable our own homes may be in the event of an earthquake. While we have the good fortune to even have the option to buy earthquake insurance for our homes, there are some things you should know about this type of [...]
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Charlie Lichtman is on a crusade to lower his health-care costs and a quest for answers as to why they’re so high in the first place.
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A MarketWatch report on wireless medical devices gave the incorrect dollar figure for the value of the overall mobile health market. See corrected story.
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Each night before lying down to sleep in the cab of his semi, David Jesse straps a blood pressure cuff on his arm. The reading goes straight to his HealthPAL, a cell-phone-sized transmitter.
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Parents of overweight and obese children face a heavy burden in navigating a complex health-care system that does little to help them change their kids’ course. But a growing number of employers and health insurers are trying to make it easier to get such help.
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