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Retail clinic convenience charms new audience: parents

■ Having a long-standing relationship with a physician doesn't mean parents will take their children to the doctor's office. Read story

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Study pinpoints primary care physician shortages

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States get creative to meet Medicaid specialty care shortfall

■ Health care partnerships are making headway in improving patient access to specialists through telehealth and other innovations. Read story

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2014 predicted to mark faster decline in primary care access

■ A Senate committee discusses which strategies are seeing results in building a work force that can handle ACA coverage expansions. Read story

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Primary care access a key to health disparities among counties

■ An annual ranking of counties based on health status found that gaps between the healthiest and unhealthiest regions of states are wide — and getting wider. Read story

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Race and medicine: the struggle to improve care for African-Americans

■ Connected coverage — selected articles on trends, challenges and controversies in the changing world of medicine. Read story

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Black men increasingly hard to find in medical schools

■ A dwindling share of students pursuing physician careers are African-American men. Experts warn that the trend could exacerbate racial health disparities and doctor shortages. Read story

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How big will the Medicaid “woodwork” population be?

■ The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured recently projected that millions will sign up starting in 2014 even though they are eligible now. Read story

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