New research evaluating the potential cost savings of a therapy for babies displaying early autism signs has predicted a three dollar return to Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) for every dollar invested ...
Apr 5, 2023
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While youth and teens struggling with psychosis benefit the most with early intervention care, 20 to 40 percent of them drop out of care programs, if they begin them at all. But a recent study shows that ethnoracially minoritized ...
Apr 5, 2023
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The prevalence of multimorbidity, the co-occurrence of two or more chronic conditions, varies depending on exactly how it is defined. And the health care costs associated with many disease combinations cost more together ...
Apr 4, 2023
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Researchers who surveyed women attending breast cancer screening appointments found that one in five is likely to skip additional testing after an abnormal finding on their mammogram if there is a deductible or co-payment, ...
Apr 4, 2023
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A study of more than 8,000 comprehensively characterized Medicare beneficiaries has found that the addition of self-reported functional impairments and physical frailty to claims-based measures of multi-morbidity and frailty ...
Apr 3, 2023
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The use of time-lapse monitoring in IVF does not result in more pregnancies or shorten the time it takes to get pregnant. This new method, which promises to "identify the most viable embryos," is more expensive than the classic ...
Mar 30, 2023
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More than half of people with chronic hepatitis B have a form of the disease in which the immune system almost never achieves sustained control, despite many years of treatment. According to current knowledge, those affected ...
Mar 30, 2023
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A new study from the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute found that only 1.8% of eligible Americans with commercial insurance received lung cancer screening. Rates were higher but still extremely low for Original Medicare ...
Mar 29, 2023
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Out-of-pocket costs for screening mammography have been mostly eliminated for women over 40 years old, but not for any needed follow-up procedures or testing if a screening mammogram is abnormal. A study by the Neiman Health ...
Mar 27, 2023
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Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) benefit from early rhythm control therapy. It reduces cardiovascular deaths, strokes, and other adverse outcomes by 20% compared to usual care. The beneficial effects of early rhythm ...
Mar 27, 2023
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