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Today's vote by the House of Representatives is an important step toward repealing the 21.5 percent Medicare pay cut for doctors set to take effect next year, and moves to stabilize Medicare's payment system for doctors for the long term.

How do the House and Senate bills differ? What do they mean for you? Health care videos Weekend health fight looms for Senate A A Nov.

The Senate will hold its first vote on health care legislation on Saturday night and Democrats will need 60 votes to prevail.

People suffering from a form of incurable blindness could soon become the first patients in the world to benefit from a new and controversial transplant operation using stem cells derived from spare human embryos left over from IVF treatment.

As the U.S. Senate braces for a heated debate about its version of health care reform legislation unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid late Wednesday, U.S. Rep.

The Democratic-controlled House voted Thursday to add more than $200 billion to the deficit to prevent steep Medicare payment cuts to doctors, a move Republicans denounced as a political payoff.

Insurance companies contacted by USA TODAY say they will continue paying for annual mammograms amid widespread fears that new breast cancer screening guidelines from a federal task force could lead women to lose coverage for those tests.

A comparison of the health care bills before Congress: ___ The Senate Democratic bill : WHO'S COVERED: About 94 percent of legal residents under age 65 compared with 83 percent now.

Vaccine makers praised the U.S. response to the swine flu pandemic on Wednesday but said regulatory delays and public suspicion have held up innovative ways to speed and stretch the U.S. influenza vaccine supply.

Health care legislation headed for the Senate floor includes higher payroll taxes for upper income wage earners.

A federal jury has convicted a Virginia Beach physician on nearly 30 counts in a fraudulent-billing scheme that bilked government health programs out of $1.2 million.

A group representing hundreds of West Virginia police officers sees the value in the special session legislation that aims to help ailing municipal pensions, one of its officials said Tuesday.

It is a core tenet of the push to improve American medical care and control its cost: Experts should study the effectiveness of treatments and procedures to determine which work best.

Senate health care legislation expected this week is likely to include a new long-term care insurance program to help the elderly and the disabled avoid going into nursing homes, Democratic officials say.

A Mid-South oncologist was instrumental in a clinical trial that will help women nationwide.

WASHINGTON -- Seniors would pay $49 billion in higher premiums over the next decade as a result of legislation headed for a House vote that raises fees for doctors treating Medicare patients, according to an estimate by congressional budget officials.

MADISON, Wis. - A no-frills health insurance plan for poor, childless adults may not be ready until March, state lawmakers were told Tuesday.

When it comes to paying for a health care overhaul, Americans see just one way to go: tax the rich.

Business foes of health care overhaul legislation are outspending supporters at a rate of 2-to-1 for TV ads as they grow increasingly nervous over a final bill.

Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an integrated specialty pharmaceutical company with both development and commercial capabilities focused on women's healthcare and pain management, announced today that Lysteda oral tablets has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for treatment of women suffering from cyclic heavy menstrual bleeding , ...