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Adding Chesley and Durham physicians to the already established Brockton and Area Family Health Team would not only allow for the hiring of more allied health care professionals in the area, it would also make history.
Chesley and Durham doctors were invited earlier this year to be part of the Brockton Family Health Team. A business [...]

A report published yesterday by Statistics Canada sought to answer whether sexual identity had anything to do with having a regular doctor, consulting health care providers, taking preventive screening tests and having any unmet medical needs.It found that gay men were much more likely than heterosexual men to have consulted a doctor or medical specialist [...]

A report published yesterday by Statistics Canada sought to answer whether sexual identity had anything to do with having a regular doctor, consulting health-care providers, taking preventive screening tests and having any unmet medical needs.It found that gay men were much more likely than heterosexual men to have consulted a doctor or medical specialist in [...]

A report published yesterday by Statistics Canada sought to answer whether sexual identity had anything to do with having a regular doctor, consulting health care providers, taking preventive screening tests and having any unmet medical needs.It found that gay men were much more likely than heterosexual men to have consulted a doctor or medical specialist [...]

Customers of business-rating service Angie’s List can now assess physicians, dentists, pharmacies and health insurers by using grades A to F in several categories.
The Indianapolis-based company, with about 600,000 members nationwide, built its business by providing a forum for its customers to rate painters, roofers and other services. Access to angieslist.com costs $59 a year, [...]

That gap may be too big, according to critics of the health insurance industry, whose ranks were joined Wednesday by the New York State attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo. Mr. Cuomo announced a sweeping investigation into whether health insurance companies have systematically forced patients to pay more than they should when using doctors [...]