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A mechanical pump can be life-saving for heart failure patients or it can cause dangerous complications. Doctors can do a better job at explaining the reasons some patients may want to opt out.

Pharmaceutical companies like Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, often win patents for incremental changes with debatable value. Now there’s a twist involving an opioid addiction treatment.

The overdose antidote naloxone could soon be available in more public places. The Veterans Administration is adding it to its automated defibrillator cabinets. Other institutions are following suit.

Medevac helicopter companies are on the congressional radar, as a funding bill for the Federal Aviation Administration nears passage. Consumer protections against deceptive practices could become law.

Many hospitals that serve a large share of low-income patients will benefit from Medicare’s less punishing approach to penalties for patient readmissions.

After an accident in an all-terrain vehicle crushed a doctor’s left arm, he was whisked by air ambulance to the closest trauma center for specialized care. Soon he was fighting over the $56,603 bill.

After an accident in an all-terrain vehicle crushed a doctor’s left arm, he was whisked by air ambulance to the closest trauma center for specialized care. Soon he was fighting over the $56,603 bill.

NPR is looking at when and why obstetricians and gynecologists put patients on bed rest. If you’ve been pregnant in the past year and were advised to stay on bed rest, we’d like to hear from you.

Chair design shifted dramatically about a hundred years ago, and it hasn’t been good for our backs. Our daily lives are filled with chairs that make our posture worse. Luckily, we’ve got hacks.

NPR’s Michel Martin interviews former second lady Jill Biden about the Biden Cancer Initiative and its effort to bring together health care providers, researchers drug companies and patients.