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Medicare beneficiaries are dying differently


 

Since 2000, Medicare beneficiaries are less likely to die in hospitals and are more likely to die in their homes or in community healthcare facilities. Also today, heart failure leads to a poor prognosis for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, The Supreme Court supports anti-abortion centers in free speech case, and when confronted with contact dermatitis in toddlers, consider the potty seat.

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