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A long-term care insurance policy covers a variety of medical, personal and supportive services provided at home, in an assisted care facility or in a nursing home for an extended period of time. It can help you avoid depending on others for care, preserve your independence, protect your standard of living and give you greater choices if you need confined care or home health care.

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Patient Money: Food Safety Tips for the Budget-Conscious

Safety experts have advice on ways to germ-proof your food, and still save money.

H.I.V. Prevention Gel Hits Snag: Money

Donors have not yet committed enough money for studies needed to confirm a promising South African trial of a microbicide and to get the product to women.

F.D.A. Backtracks and Returns Drug to Market

After being flooded with complaints, the agency said it would continue to allow the sale of the drug midodrine.

Modified Salmon Is Safe, F.D.A. Says

The assessment makes it more likely that the fish will become the first genetically modified animal to enter the American food supply.

Employers Push Costs for Health on Workers

Employers passed all of the increases in insurance premiums this year to their employees, a survey found.

Srinagar Journal: A Kashmir Hospital Is Witness to Conflict

Just getting to work is an ordeal for staff members, who have also had to face chanting protesters in their emergency room.

Recipes for Health: Grilled Leeks With Romesco Sauce

Steamed and grilled leeks are paired with romesco sauce, a nut-thickened pepper purée.

Child?s Ordeal Shows Risks of Psychosis Drugs for Young

Powerful drugs are given to young children despite a lack of study on how they affect development.

Public Hospitals Look to Overhaul Affiliations With Medical Schools

New York City?s hospital system wants to renegotiate longstanding contracts that allow medical schools to manage physicians.

Doctor and Patient: Tending to Patients During a Hurricane

Dr. Ruth Berggren was among a team of nurses and doctors that stayed with patients during Hurricane Katrina.

Finding Suggests New Aim for Alzheimer?s Drugs

A discovery by Paul Greengard, an 84-year-old scientist and Nobel winner, has illuminated a new direction.

Returning to Classrooms, and to Severe Headaches

Doctors say frequent headaches and migraines are among the most common childhood health complaints, yet the problem gets surprisingly little attention from the medical community.

Scientist at Work: Dr. Donald A. Redelmeier: Think the Answer?s Clear? Look Again

Dr. Donald A. Redelmeier?s work has debunked preconceived notions and revealed some deep truths about the predictors of longevity, the organization of health care and the workings of the medical mind.

Essay: Isolation, an Ancient and Lonely Practice, Endures

For those who are not just infected on the inside but also infested on the outside our state-of-the-art treatment includes a direct carryover from the Middle Ages.

The Bay Citizen: I.R.S. Looks at Finances of Bay Area Clinic

The criminal division of the Internal Revenue Service is looking into the finances of Planned Parenthood Golden Gate in Oakland, CA, which has also begun its own investigation.

At Flea Market, Fear of a Different Insect

Buyers in secondhand stores are concerned about bedbugs coming along with the clothing or furniture.

Study Sees Heart Risk in Meridia Diet Pill

A clinical trial found that the controversial drug increased the risks of heart attacks and strokes while doing little to slim their waists.

Maker of Botox Settles Inquiry

Allergan agreed to pay $600 million to settle charges that it illegally promoted and sold Botox for unapproved uses.

Mind: Lasting Pleasures, Robbed by Drug Abuse

Drugs have a competitive advantage over natural rewards and can hijack the brain?s reward system.

Does Your Language Shape How You Think?

The idea that your mother tongue shapes your experience of the world may be true after all.

Doctor and Patient: Can Concierge Medicine for the Few Benefit the Many?

At a boutique practice at Tufts Medical Center, retainer fees support the general practice, teaching and free health care.

Cases: When Battlefield Humor Backfires

In stereotyping patients, physicians may be diminishing them.

Doctor and Patient: When Doctors Admit Their Mistakes

Fear of lawsuits often keeps doctors from talking to patients when mistakes are made, but a University of Michigan study argues for open disclosure of medical errors.

Vegetarian Recipes for Barbecue Season

If your Labor Day plans include a picnic or barbecue, be sure to check out Martha Rose Shulman's latest installment of Recipes for Health, which offers flavorful options for vegetarian eaters.

Sunday Shopping Takes Toll on Happiness

If the traditional day of rest and worship has become your day to shop, it may be taking a toll on your happiness.

Creating a Safer Kitchen

Food scares, such as the latest contaminated egg problem, often trigger a rethinking in cooking and shopping habits. In today's Patient Money column, Walecia Konrad explores the costs and options consumers face on their quest for germ-free kitchens.

Testing the Bonds of Doctor and Patient

For Dr. Ruth Bergren and her colleagues taking care of HIV patients in New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina presented the ultimate test of the doctor-patient relationship.

Do Fluorescent Lights Trigger Migraines?

Many people who suffer from migraines believe fluorescent lights are the culprit.

Helping a Neighbor in Need

New Web sites aim to connect those in need with friends and acquaintances willing to provide rides and meals, do chores or pay visits.

Fear of Falling

Can exaggerated anxiety about falling -- even if tests show your risk to be low -- increase the probability that you'll actually fall?

Fighting the Muscle Loss That Comes With Age

Why muscles wither with age is captivating a growing number of scientists, drug and food companies and aging baby boomers.

Personal Health: Weight Index Doesn?t Tell the Whole Truth

Body mass index may be useful for identifying obesity in large populations, but in individuals it doesn?t differentiate between fatty and lean tissue.

Really?: The Claim: Flying After Breast Cancer Surgery Can Cause Swelling

Lymph nodes are often removed as treatment. The concern is that changes in cabin pressure might influence the movement of fluid in the lymphatic system.

A Child Psychiatrist Responds

Dr. Mary Margaret Gleason answers some readers' questions.

Q. & A. With a Child Psychiatrist

Are drugs appropriate for toddlers to take when they exhibit troubled behavior?

Health Costs Passed On to Workers

The annual Kaiser survey of employer health benefits shows employers managed to keep costs down, but employees' premiums went up.

Letters: Neuro-Pioneers (1 Letter)

A letter to the editor.

Letters: Acupuncture and Science (1 Letter)

A letter to the editor.

Letters: Comfort at Life?s End (1 Letter)

A letter to the editor.

Letters: Sticks and Stones (2 Letters)

Letters to the editor.

Will Aging Chimps Get to Retire, or Face Medical Research?

A move of some of 186 chimpanzees to a research center in Texas has spurred outrage among animal rights advocates, primate experts and politicians.

New Rivals to Warfarin as Blood Clot Preventer

A Bristol-Myers drug shows promise in treating a heart rhythm disorder, and others combat postsurgical clotting and deep vein thrombosis.

Vital Signs: Safety: Assessing the National Bill for Crashes

Motor vehicle accidents cost the nation almost $100 billion dollars a year, about $500 for each licensed driver, according to government data.

Companies Race to Develop Drugs to Reduce Blood-Clotting Problems

The drugs are aimed at people who have a higher than normal risk for clotting or stroke, like patients undergoing hip replacement surgery or those with an irregular heartbeat.

Recipes for Health: Grilled Mushrooms in Foil Packets

Prepare these packets at home, then toss them on the grill at a cookout.

Recipes for Health: Turkish Bean and Herb Salad

This fragrant bean salad requires far less olive oil than the traditional version.

Recipes for Health: Creamy Potato Salad With Yogurt Vinaigrette

This dish may resemble a traditional potato salad, but it does not rely on mayonnaise.

Recipes for Health: For the Vegetarians at the Cookout

Skip the veggie burgers and tofu ?hot dogs.? Here are some excellent vegetarian dishes for end-of-summer picnics and barbecues.

Deal Would Provide Dialysis to Illegal Immigrants in Atlanta

The deal, if completed, would end a yearlong impasse that has come to symbolize the health care plight of the country?s uninsured immigrants and the hospitals that end up caring for them.

Sanofi?s Bid Puts Pressure on Genzyme

The French drug maker Sanofi-Aventis disclosed its $18.5 billion bid for the American biotechnology firm Genzyme.

Stem Cell Ruling Will Be Appealed

The head of the National Institutes of Health said a judge?s decision would most likely force the cancellation of dozens of experiments in diseases ranging from diabetes to Parkinson?s.

The Two Plaintiffs at Center of the Ban on Stem Cell Use

The two researchers whose claims of injury led to the judge?s decision have a history of disputes with colleagues as well as ethical objections to embryonic stem cell research.

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