A study by the University of Minnesota School of Public Health examining the choice and pricing of individual health insurance plans across the U.S. found that rural areas have the fewest options and pay the highest premiums. ...
Aug 6, 2020
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Similar to blood sugar, various biomarkers could in future be identified using just a few drops of blood. Researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum are developing a multi-analyte test strip for this purpose that will open up ...
Jul 29, 2020
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Health care resources in low- and middle-income countries are often concentrated in urban areas, which puts medical treatment out of reach for millions of impoverished individuals who live in distant towns and villages.
Jul 8, 2020
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Buying prescription drugs from outside the United States could become more common with millions of Americans unemployed and uninsured because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Jun 30, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Furloughs and layoffs stemming from the coronavirus pandemic have left many Americans without health insurance, a new survey reveals.
Jun 23, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Seattle resident Michael Flor's heart nearly stopped when he received a $1.1 million dollar hospital bill for months of COVID-19 treatment.
Jun 22, 2020
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Offering a government-sponsored health plan with publicly determined payment rates to people who buy their own insurance could lower the cost of premiums, but on its own it is unlikely to substantially increase the overall ...
May 28, 2020
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A study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health found that long-term buprenorphine treatment is associated with improvements in health care outcomes. Compared to individuals who discontinued buprenorphine, ...
May 5, 2020
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(HealthDay)—After insurer payment, potential surprise bills to patients for out-of-network providers occur in 8 percent of episodes at in-network ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), according to a report published online ...
Apr 27, 2020
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Regenstrief Institute has propelled the translation of existing human readable clinical guidelines into computerized clinical decision support for family planning and for sexually transmitted infections (STI). This is a step ...
Apr 24, 2020
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