http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay) -- Health care spending in the United States from 2011 to 2013 is expected to grow 4 percent, which is slightly more than the historic low of 3.8 percent in 2009, government officials said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-modest-health.html Health Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:10:01 EST news258741757 Large randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are critical for determining effectiveness of medical therapies, tests and procedures. Yet Canada provides scant support for these studies compared with other western countries, states an analysis in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-canada-significantly-funding-randomized-clinical.html Other Tue, 22 May 2012 12:00:02 EST news256904505 The United States spends more on health care than 12 other industrialized countries yet does not provide "notably superior" care, according to a new study from The Commonwealth Fund. The U.S. spent nearly $8,000 per person in 2009 on health care services, while other countries in the study spent between one-third (Japan and New Zealand) and two-thirds (Norway and Switzerland) as much. While the U.S. performs well on breast and colorectal cancer survival rates, it has among the highest rates of potentially preventable deaths from asthma and amputations due to diabetes, and rates that are no better than average for in-hospital deaths from heart attack and stroke. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-health-industrialized-nations-quality-varies.html Health Thu, 03 May 2012 03:05:42 EST news255233122 The Spanish government, which last month introduced a tough 2012 budget, said Monday it expects to save another 10 billion euros ($13 billion) by making public services like education and health care run more efficiently. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-spain-bln-euros-health-reform.html Health Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:17:29 EST news253207041 According to new research from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), a state's level of wealth or poverty is linked with levels of cardiovascular inflammation in women. Cardiovascular inflammation is a key risk factor for heart disease. This research, led by Cheryl R. Clark, MD, ScD, the director of health equity research and intervention at the Center for Community Health and Health Equity at BWH was published March 20 in the online edition of BMC Public Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-state-wealth-affects-women-heart.html Cardiology Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:31:44 EST news251465482 Fast-rising health costs have eaten nearly all the income gains made by a median-income American family of four over the past decade, leaving them with just $95 per month in extra income, after accounting for taxes and price increases, according to a new RAND Corporation study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-health-eroding-americans-income-gains.html Health Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:10:54 EST news234677437