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Study links low wages with hypertension, especially for women and younger workers

Workers earning the lowest wages have a higher risk of hypertension than workers with the highest wages, according to new research from UC Davis.

Health created Jan 03, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Divorce costs thousands of women health insurance coverage

(Medical Xpress)—About 115,000 women lose their private health insurance every year in the wake of divorce, according to a University of Michigan study.

Health created Nov 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Lack of insurance linked to advanced stage cervical cancer

A large national sample of women diagnosed with cervical cancer between 2000 and 2007 finds lack of insurance was second only to age as the strongest predictor of late stage at diagnosis, a gap the authors say is likely attributable ...

Cancer created Jul 19, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Medical debt occurs despite insurance, study shows

Health insurance is not protecting Arizonans from having problems paying medical bills, and having bill problems is keeping families from getting needed medical care and prescription medicines, a new study has found.

Health created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study: Specialty physicians turn away two-thirds of children with public insurance

Sixty-six percent of publicly-insured children were unable to get a doctor's appointment for medical conditions requiring outpatient specialty care including diabetes and seizures, while children with identical symptoms and ...

Health created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Advance directives manage end of life care issues and reduce end of life medical costs

A new article available online in the American Journal of Public Health by two Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health faculty makes a compelling case that end-of-life care issues need to become an integral part o ...

Health created May 08, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Expanding Medicaid: Mental and financial health improve, but no improvement shown in physical health

New findings from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment show that Medicaid coverage had no detectable effect on the prevalence of diabetes, high cholesterol, or high blood pressure, but substantially reduced depression, ...

Health created May 01, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hong Kong prescribes new dose of old Chinese medicine

The young woman pours a pack of brown powder into a glass of hot water, stirs it well and drinks the murky mixture down, hoping the traditional Chinese medicine will cure her feverish cold.

Medications created Apr 30, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Breast CA tx delays still more common for poor, uninsured

(HealthDay)—For young women with breast cancer, a longer treatment delay time (TDT) is associated with decreased survival, especially for African-American women, those with public or no insurance, and those ...

Surgery created Apr 25, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Record number of children covered by health insurance in 2011

A record number of U.S. children were covered by health insurance in 2011, mostly due to substantial increases in the enrollment rates of public insurance, according to new research from the Carsey Institute at the University ...

Health created Feb 05, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study calls for broader public access to obesity surgery

People with private health insurance are nine times more likely than those without to have bariatric weight-loss surgery, a new study has found.

Overweight and Obesity created Dec 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Higher proportion of California children uninsured than in US, analysis shows

Compared to the nation, a higher proportion of children in California are uninsured, one in every 10 children or more than 1.1 million in 2011. More of California's children have public health insurance and fewer through ...

Health created Nov 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Preemies from low-income families at high risk for dangerous brain bleeds

Babies born prematurely to low-income parents have a disproportionately high risk for developing dangerous brain bleeds that require multiple surgeries and extensive follow-up, according to a small Johns Hopkins Children's ...

Pediatrics created Oct 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Community health indicators tied to transplant outcomes

(HealthDay) -- In the community setting, health indicators are significantly associated with post-kidney-transplant mortality, according to a study published online Feb 20 in the Archives of Surgery.

Surgery created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Public health insurance offers insured infants better, less costly care than private plans

In the fierce national debate over a new federal law that requires all Americans to have health insurance, it's widely assumed that private health insurance can do a better job than the public insurance funded by the U.S. ...

Health created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0