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By Gil Silva Deputy Regional Administrator Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Region IV (AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN) Medicare Annual...

Lund, October 24, 2018 - Heart attacks occur more often when temperatures plummet, a large new study suggests. Based on more than a decade...

Atlanta, October 9, 2018 – The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) and the Pediatric Healthcare Improvement Coalition of Georgia (PHIC) encourage all parents...

Most men shouldn’t get routine prostate cancer screening because the potential benefits are small and there are clear harms, an international panel of experts...

People who exercise may experience symptoms of mental health disorders less often, a U.S. study suggests. That may be true even when the exercise...

Medicare is mailing new, more secure Medicare cards with a Medicare Number that's unique to every person with Medicare. Medicare is getting rid of...

In healthy elderly people who never had a heart attack, the widespread practice of taking a baby aspirin every day may do more harm...

More than a quarter of the world’s adults – or 1.4 billion people – take too little exercise, putting them at higher risk of...

Patients undergoing major cancer surgery might reduce their risk of complications by seeing a dentist beforehand, a study from Japan suggests. Patients who visited...