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Transparent information on the evidence supporting global recommendations on paediatric medicines should be easily accessible in order to help policy makers decides on what drugs to include in their national drug lists, according to international experts from Ghana and the UK writing in this week's PLOS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-global-child-medicine.html Medications Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:01 EST news288374168 Eighty-four million people―nearly half of all working-age U.S. adults―went without health insurance for a time last year or had out-of-pocket costs that were so high relative to their income they were considered underinsured, according to the Commonwealth Fund 2012 Biennial Health Insurance Survey. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-health-survey-million-people-uninsured.html Health Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:01 EST news286128493 An HIV prevention strategy in which people at risk of becoming exposed to HIV take antiretroviral drugs to reduce their chance of becoming infected (often referred to as pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP), may be a cost-effective method of preventing HIV in some settings, according to a study by international researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-hiv-infection-anti-hiv-drugs-people.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:00:08 EST news282323068 The cost of one year's treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with new generation drugs is more than the per capita gross domestic product of 26 European countries, reveals research published online in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-wide-disparities-access-latest-rheumatoid.html Arthritis & Rheumatism Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:30:01 EST news281808813 In 2009, New Jersey became one of only two states in the country to enact a family leave insurance law. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-successfully-families.html Health Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:07:25 EST news279785239 South Africa, home to the world's largest population of people living with HIV, said Thursday it had secured a deal to buy a key anti-retroviral (ARV) drug at the lowest price ever. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-safrica-low-cost-arvs-minister.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:59:23 EST news273434324 Two-thirds (69%) of U.S. primary care physicians reported using electronic medical records (EMRs) in 2012, up from less than half (46%) in 2009, according to findings from the 2012 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey, published as a Web First online today in the journal Health Affairs. Primary care physicians in the U.S.—the only country in the study without universal health coverage—stand out in the survey for reporting that their patients often cannot afford care (59%). By comparison, between 4 percent and 25 percent of physicians reported affordability problems for their patients in Norway (4%), the U.K. (13%), Switzerland (16%), Germany (21%), and Australia (25%). Moreover, more than half of U.S. doctors (52%) said insurance restrictions on their care decisions are a major time concern—by far the highest rate in the 10-country survey. U.S. physicians also were the most negative about their country's health system, with only 15 percent agreeing the health care system works well. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-survey-percent-primary-doctors-electronic.html Health Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:00:01 EST news272130742 (Medical Xpress)—A characteristically inflamed, weeping sore that fails to heal, heals slowly or tends to recur is known as a chronic wound, a common debilitating and painful medical condition which requires specialist care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-3l-tubular-bandaging-significantly-chronic.html Medical research Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:20:04 EST news269767643 The Scottish government set out a minimum price for alcohol Monday, saying too many Scots were "drinking themselves to death" and it was time to tackle the country's relationship with booze. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-scotland-minimum-alcohol-price.html Health Mon, 14 May 2012 15:30:01 EST news256227063 (AP) -- It doesn't compute: Medicare's bill for artificial feet has jumped by more than half, although foot and leg amputations due to diabetes continue to decline dramatically. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-medicare-puzzle-big-artificial-feet.html Health Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:20:02 EST news248518417 In a cross-sectional analysis of WHO-AIMS data published in this week's PLoS Medicine, Ryan McBain of Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA and colleagues investigated the associations between health system components and access to psychotropic drugs in 63 low- and middle- income countries (LAMICs). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-health-factors-affect-access-psychotropic.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:00:05 EST news247248879 England's health secretary Andrew Lansley has said that if England keeps on spending on health at the current rate, the NHS will be unaffordable in 20 years' time. But in an article published in the British Medical Journal today, John Appleby, Chief Economist at the King's Fund argues that spending on health will be a matter of choice, not affordability. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-expert-lansley-nhs-unaffordable.html Health Wed, 13 Jul 2011 03:18:13 EST news229745884 Ninety percent of American families living above the federal poverty level will be able to afford health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report by Jonathan Gruber and Ian Perry of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The report finds that new subsidies available through health insurance exchanges established under the law will make premiums affordable for most families. But the authors also warn that high out-of-pocket costs will likely mean some families will still be unable to afford health-related expenses. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-health-reform-families.html Health Wed, 27 Apr 2011 03:23:48 EST news223093402