http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Modifications to current policies could help ensure that health insurance coverage and subsidies provided under the Affordable Care Act remain stable even through major life changes, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report released today. At least 34 million people will gain new coverage under the law, and the report's authors say that it will be important to ensure that life changes like fluctuations in income and job transitions don't cause abrupt changes in people's health insurance coverage or financial responsibilities for their premiums or care. Uncertainty about how life changes could affect their health insurance and premium costs might lead people to delay signing up for coverage through the exchanges and Medicaid, and could cause people who have received premium subsidies to have to pay money back if their incomes are higher than expected. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-health-reform-access-coverage.html Health Thu, 19 May 2011 04:07:06 EST news224996814 Even healthy adults with a safe driving record tend to make more driving errors as they age, including potentially dangerous mistakes, such as failing to check blind spots, according to a study published by the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-errors-age-older-drivers.html Neuroscience Mon, 16 May 2011 10:52:22 EST news224761930 Decades after the pit closures, coalfield communities still face significant health problems and economic difficulties, according to new research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-regeneration-key-boosting-coalfield.html Health Mon, 16 May 2011 10:46:07 EST news224761551 According to two new policy briefs from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, the majority of state residents likely to be eligible for federally mandated health insurance coverage initiatives in California in 2014 are also those who may be least likely to excessively use costly health services: men, singles and those of working age. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-beneficiaries-health-reform-california.html Health Tue, 10 May 2011 13:17:05 EST news224252198 (Medical Xpress) -- Children exposed to advertisements for high-calorie and nutrient-poor foods consume more unhealthy foods overall, regardless of the specific product and brand being marketed, finds a new study from the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University. The study, published in Economics and Human Biology, shows a relationship between children's exposure to food advertising on television and the consumption of unhealthy food, particularly sugar-sweetened beverages and fast food. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-truth-advertising-junk-food-children.html Health Tue, 10 May 2011 08:20:01 EST news224233587