Taxes this year will be as much of a drag as ever. But not because of the Affordable Care Act. iStockphoto.com hide caption
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Chick-Fil-A employees Jennifer Cummins, right, and Joshua Figaretti work out in the gym during lunch at the company's corporate headquarters office in Hapeville, Ga. Increasingly employers are offering health plan incentives to encourage healthy behaviors from workers. Ric Feld/AP hide caption
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Heparin is an anticoagulant and the prescription version is made from pig, raising concerns for vegans. Rob Kim/Landov hide caption
Match day at Georgetown University School of Medicine on March 15. Eric Stern/for NPR hide caption
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Patients say they feel little personal responsibility for keeping health costs lower. Andrei Tchernov/iStockphoto.com hide caption
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Rates for female applicants could be up to 40 percent higher under Genworth Financial's new pricing policy. iStockphoto.com hide caption
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Walgreens is one of several pharmacies that have partnered with hospitals to help manage patients after they've returned home. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
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Car commercial? Nope. Jessica Richman, Zachary Apte (center) and William Ludington are looking to the crowd for money to fund uBiome, which will sequence the genetic code of microbes that live on and inside humans. Courtesy of uBiome hide caption
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Shoppers buy smuggled counterfeit drugs at the Adjame market in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in 2007. Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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About a third of U.S. hospitals have an observation unit, and most hospitals will eventually have one, the industry predicts. iStockphoto.com hide caption
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A package of microwave popcorn promoting Johnson & Johnson's antipsychotic drug Invega back in 2008 would have been a no-no at many medical schools. Nurse Ratched's Place hide caption
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What's up, doc? How would you feel if your doctor shared a picture like this one? Dr. Ryan Greysen hide caption