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AstraZeneca's Nexium is one of many drugs that had a hefty price increase this month. Rennett Stowe/Flickr hide caption
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A customer walks out of a Walgreens store in New York City. Adam Rountree/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Why Millions Of Prescriptions Will No Longer Be Filled At Walgreens
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Unlike the medical examiner's office in New Mexico, which routinely autopsies sudden or violent deaths, most U.S. hospitals perform postmortem examinations only rarely. John W. Poole/NPR hide caption
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Joseuly Claudio, 53, gets weekly checkups from nurse practitioner Mary McDonagh at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. Fred Mogul/WNYC hide caption
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After 14 years, the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor is going generic. JB Reed/Landov hide caption
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Wal-Mart's Dr. John Agwunobi (left) said in a statement that the company won't be "building a national, integrated, low-cost primary care health care platform." Even so, the leaves plenty of room for the retailer to pursue an expansion of health care services at its stores. Cliff Owen/AP hide caption
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Triage nurses screen patients in the ER waiting room at the University of Chicago Medical Center in Chicago in late 2010. Patients in Chicago were among those least satisfied with their hospital care. M. Spencer Green/AP hide caption