Medical Xpress: PHYSorg news tagged with: economic recovery http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Big protests in Spain against health care reforms (AP)—Thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of 16 Spanish cities Sunday to protest plans to part-privatize the public health care system, with some questioning the government's motives. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-big-protests-spain-health-reforms.html Health Sun, 17 Feb 2013 13:10:01 EST news280328479 Federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program use grows in 2011 In 2011, 13 percent of all American households relied on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—the program formerly known as food stamps – with nearly 6.2 million more American households using the program now than five years ago, according to new research from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-federal-supplemental-nutrition.html Health Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:36:56 EST news277468559 US suicide rates have increased since economic crisis began Suicide rates in the US have risen sharply since the economic crisis took hold in 2007, warn the authors of Correspondence published Online First in The Lancet today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-suicide-economic-crisis-began.html Psychology & Psychiatry Sun, 04 Nov 2012 18:30:01 EST news271242154 US plastic surgeries rise for second straight year The number of Americans getting nips and tucks rose in 2011 for the second straight year despite difficult economic times, a major US plastic surgeons' groups said on Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-plastic-surgeries-straight-year.html Other Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:51:09 EST news248014251 New insured numbers show tug-of-war between economy and health care reform The estimates of the population without health insurance in the United States remained unchanged in 2010, as compared to 2009, reflecting the counteracting effects of not only the sluggish economic recovery but also the preliminary benefits of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), says Timothy McBride, PhD, leading health economist and associate dean of public health at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-tug-of-war-economy-health-reform.html Health Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:03:44 EST news235213408