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Health reform 2.0: states balking at new insurance exchanges

(HealthDay)—Under the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration's controversial reform of health care, states are supposed to assist uninsured Americans in buying health coverage by setting up so-called ...

Health created Sep 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Targeting childhood obesity early

With childhood obesity now affecting 17 percent of American children, the nation is rallying around the concept that serious action is required. In 2010, President Barack Obama established the first Task ...

Overweight and Obesity created Sep 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers show cost-effectiveness of HIV testing in drug abuse treatment programs

Less than half of community-based substance abuse treatment programs in the United States currently make HIV testing available on-site or through referral. A new study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College shows ...

HIV & AIDS created Sep 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Report: US health care system wastes $750B a year

(AP)—A new report says the U.S. health care system squanders $750 billion a year—roughly 30 cents of every medical dollar.

Health created Sep 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Colleges find sleep is key to grade average

As U.S. college students return to campus in the coming weeks, they'll be showered in the usual handouts of coupons, condoms and credit cards. But some schools are also giving students what a growing body of research reveals ...

Health created Sep 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In some US states, not poor enough for health care

Sandra Pico is poor, but not poor enough. She makes about $15,000 a year, supporting her daughter and unemployed husband. She thought she'd get health insurance after the Supreme Court this year upheld President Barack Obama's ...

Health created Aug 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hopes high as AIDS conference returns to US

A cure for AIDS remains a distant prospect but a host of drug treatments and other advances have fueled fresh hope that new human immunodeficiency virus infections may some day be halted for good.

HIV & AIDS created Jul 15, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

US House votes to repeal health law, likely to fail in Senate

US lawmakers voted Wednesday to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, a contentious election-year move by Republicans aimed at striking down one of Obama's key achievements.

Health created Jul 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Obama health law faces Republican-led repeal vote

US lawmakers will vote Wednesday to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, as Republicans unleash a barrage of attacks aimed at inspiring support for wiping out the landmark reforms.

Health created Jul 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

US health insurer WellPoint buys Amerigroup

US health insurer WellPoint is buying Amerigroup, a manager of publicly funded health programs, for about $4.9 billion, the companies said Monday.

Health created Jul 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Romney threads position on health law 'tax'

Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney has appeared to contradict previous campaign statements by saying President Barack Obama's health reform law entails a "tax" and not a penalty.

Health created Jul 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Roberts 'wrote both sides of US health care ruling'

Chief Justice John Roberts flipped late in the game on the Supreme Court ruling on "Obamacare" and ended up writing both the majority opinion and most of the opposing dissent, sources said Tuesday.

Health created Jul 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Aide says Romney thinks US health mandate not a tax

A top aide to White House hopeful Mitt Romney thrust a wrench Monday into the Republican attack line that President Barack Obama's individual health insurance mandate is a tax, arguing it's actually a penalty.

Health created Jul 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Obamacare ruling restores faith in US Supreme Court

With Chief Justice John Roberts' decisive swing vote to uphold "Obamacare," the conservative-majority US Supreme Court has seen its reputation as an independent final arbiter restored, experts say.

Health created Jul 01, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (6) | comments 4

No cure in sight for US health care costs

"Every time I see what I pay for me and my family's health it makes me sick," says Fiona, a 46-year-old mother of two who -- unlike some 50 million Americans -- actually has health insurance.

Health created Jun 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1