Health
Paying patients to use lower-priced health providers can reduce health spending
Paying people to use lower-price medical providers can help reduce health care spending, according to a new study.
Mar 4, 2019
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Preeclampsia: New study documents its enormous economic and health burden
Preeclampsia, a dangerous condition that may occur during pregnancy, can lead to serious complications for both mother and baby. Driven in part by older maternal age and greater obesity, rates of preeclampsia are rising rapidly, ...
Jul 11, 2017
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Health
Ending individual mandate would not dramatically hike insurance prices, study finds
A new RAND Corporation study concludes that eliminating a key part of health care reform that requires all Americans to have health insurance would sharply lower the number of people gaining coverage, but would not dramatically ...
Feb 16, 2012
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Pediatrics
How much money is spent on health care for kids, where does it go?
Health care spending on children grew 56 percent between 1996 and 2013, with the most money spent in 2013 on inpatient well-newborn care, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and well-dental care, according to ...
Dec 27, 2016
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Medications
FDA outlines path for lower-priced biotech drugs
(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is preparing to review the first lower-cost versions of biotech drugs, expensive medications which have never before faced generic competition.
Feb 9, 2012
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Health
Study finds consumers may have more control over health costs than previously thought
The historic RAND Health Insurance Experiment found that patients had little or no control over their health care spending once they began to receive a physician's care, but a new study shows that this has changed for those ...
Sep 29, 2011
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Health
Medical malpractice reform does little to contain health care costs
Two papers co-authored by a University of Illinois expert in the regulation and financing of health care conclude that tort reform has had relatively little impact on the U.S. health care system.
Jan 28, 2015
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Health
Health care financing system deepens poverty and income inequality
Households' payments for medical premiums, copayments and deductibles pushed more than 7 million Americans into poverty in 2014, according to a study appearing in the American Journal of Public Health. Such payments also ...
Jan 18, 2018
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Cardiology
Do you really need that test? New statement highlights need to reduce 'low-value' heart care
Low-value health care is common and expensive for individuals and society, accounting for up to 30% – as much as $101 billion annually—of health care spending in the U.S. The current scope and impact of low-value cardiovascular ...
Feb 22, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Blood test for patients on acne medication deemed unnecessary
A new study by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) has found that for young, healthy women taking spironolactone to treat hormonal acne, frequent office visits and blood draws are an unnecessary health care ...
Mar 22, 2015
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