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SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- U.S. orthopedic surgeons in a large survey said roughly 30% of tests and referrals they ordered were medically unnecessary.

(MedPage Today) -- The lifetime costs -- including healthcare, lost productivity, and criminal justice costs -- of all the children abused in the U.S. over a single year total up to $124 billion, researchers reported.

(MedPage Today) -- Heart disease ranked as the costliest medical condition in 2008 in adult U.S. patients, followed by cancer, a statistical brief from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Hospital stays for heart failure fell a remarkable 30 percent in Medicare patients over a decade, the first such decline in the United States and forceful evidence that the nation is making headway in reducing the billion-dollar burden of a common condition....

(MedPage Today) -- About one in every six Americans becomes sick with a foodborne illness each year, accounting for billions in healthcare costs, according to updated CDC estimates.

CHICAGO (AP) -- The health care costs of Alzheimer's disease patients are more than triple those of other older people, and that doesn't even include the billions of hours of unpaid care from family members, a new report suggests....

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