Archive: 10/08/2017

Opioid users 50 percent more likely to get treatment under Obamacare

Once the Affordable Care Act was fully implemented in 2014, people who struggled with misusing opioids were 50 percent more likely to get treatment and twice as likely to have that treatment paid for by insurance than before, ...

Aug 10, 2017

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Lung cancer clinical trial elig criteria and requirements increased in number and complexity

Eligibility criteria continue to increase in number and complexity for lung cancer clinical trials.

Aug 10, 2017

Unstable housing to cost health care system estimated $111 billion over 10 years, study finds

Unstable housing among families with children will cost the United States an estimated $111 billion in health and education expenditures over the next ten years, according to new research published by Children's HealthWatch ...

Aug 10, 2017

Out-of-pocket costs exceed what many insured cancer patients expect to pay

A third of insured people with cancer end up paying more out-of-pocket than they expected, despite having health coverage, researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute have found.

Aug 10, 2017

In terms of health, having any job is not necessarily better than not having a job

A new paper published in the International Journal of Epidemiology finds that people employed in low paying or highly stressful jobs may not actually enjoy better health than those who remain unemployed.

Aug 10, 2017