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Study examines autism law, financial burdens

While the causes of autism continue to be debated and bandied about, real families who have children with autism spectrum disorders are left to struggle with expensive health care needs. These costs can be devastating - but ...

Autism spectrum disorders created Jul 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

46 million Americans lack health insurance: report (Update)

A total of 46.3 million people in the United States do not have health coverage, a trend that has been rising in the past 15 years, said a US survey published Tuesday.

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

Lack of competition could hike costs in health insurance exchanges

(Medical Xpress) -- A new study from Washington University in St. Louis suggests that health insurance exchanges, a key provision of the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, may need to be monitored to make sure there is sufficient ...

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

Fewer prostate cancer surgery complications found in teaching hospitals with fellowship programs

Patients who undergo radical surgery for prostate cancer may expect better results, on average, if they're treated in accredited teaching hospitals with residency programs, and better still if the hospitals also have medical ...

Cancer created May 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Disparities in treatment of children in the emergency department based on their insurance status

In 2009, children with public insurance were three times more likely and children with no insurance were eleven time more likely not to have a primary care physician, compared with children with private insurance. Without ...

Health created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Report: Rebates from health care law will top $1B

(AP) -- More than 3 million health insurance policyholders and thousands of employers will share $1.3 billion in rebates this year, thanks to President Barack Obama's health care law, a nonpartisan research ...

Health created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Health care debate: high stakes for those with HIV

(AP) -- For many HIV-positive Americans, and those who advocate on their behalf, these are days of anxious waiting as the Supreme Court ponders President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

HIV & AIDS created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Men more likely than women to need urgent hospital care soon after discharge

Men are significantly more likely than women to need urgent hospital care, including readmission, within a month of being discharged, finds research in the online only journal BMJ Open.

Health created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lung cancer screening might pay off, analysis shows

(HealthDay) -- Screening people at high risk for lung cancer could be at least as cost-effective as screening for breast, colorectal and cervical cancers, a new study suggests.

Cancer created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Physicians less likely to prescribe antidepressants to minorities, Medicaid patients

African-Americans and Hispanics with major depressive disorder are less likely to get antidepressants than Caucasian patients, and Medicare and Medicaid patients are less likely to get the newest generation of antidepressants.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Affordable Care Act protections would have provided nearly $2 billion in consumer rebates

Consumers nationwide would have received an estimated $2 billion in rebates from health insurers if the new medical loss ratio (MLR) rules enacted as part of the Affordable Care Act had been in effect in 2010, according to ...

Health created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Better short-Term outcomes for private prostatectomies

(HealthDay) -- For men undergoing radical prostatectomies (RPs), private health insurance coverage is linked with fewer complications, less in-hospital recovery time, and decreased mortality, compared to public ...

Health created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Insurers speed health care overhaul preparations

(AP) -- The nation's big insurers are spending millions to carry out President Barack Obama's health care overhaul even though there's a chance the wide-reaching law won't survive Supreme Court scrutiny.

Health created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How cost effective are US cancer prevention services?

Prevention is better than cure; however, when it comes to screening for cancer new research shows that U.S. health services are not as cost-effective as international, and publically run, counterparts. The research, published ...

Cancer created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Medicaid patients go to ERs more often: study

(HealthDay) -- Medicaid patients have more difficulty getting primary care and visit hospital emergency departments more often than those with private insurance, a new study finds.

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