Health
Biden administration extends COVID public health emergency for 90 days
America's public health emergency plan for COVID-19 will continue for at least another 90 days, the Biden administration announced Wednesday.
Apr 14, 2022
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News tagged with planning system
Oncology & Cancer
Medicare confirms payment for prostate cancer drug
(AP) -- Medicare officials confirmed Thursday that the program will cover the $93,000 price tag for prostate cancer drug Provenge, an innovative therapy that typically gives men suffering from an incurable stage of the disease ...
Jun 30, 2011
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Estimating global malaria incidence
Estimates of malaria incidence derived from routine surveillance data suggest that 225 million episodes of malaria occurred worldwide in 2009. This estimate is lower than other published figures, such as those from the Malaria ...
Dec 20, 2011
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Medications
Save billions or stick with Humira? Drug brokers steer Americans to the costly choice
Tennessee last year spent $48 million on a single drug, Humira—about $62,000 for each of the 775 patients who were covered by its employee health insurance program and receiving the treatment. So when nine Humira knockoffs, ...
Sep 21, 2023
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Health
Persons with dementia have higher rate of hospitalizations
Compared to individuals without dementia, persons who developed dementia subsequently had a significantly higher rate of hospital admissions for all causes and admissions for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions for which ...
Jan 10, 2012
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Health
Walk it out: Urban design plays key role in creating healthy cities
Residents of new housing developments increased their exercise and their wellbeing when they had more access to shops and parks, a new University of Melbourne study reveals.
Mar 6, 2013
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Medical economics
The case of the two Grace Elliotts: A medical billing mystery
Earlier this year, Grace Elizabeth Elliott got a mysterious hospital bill for medical care she had never received.
Dec 28, 2022
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Diabetes
The diabetes pandemic and the promise of connected care
Digital diabetes management systems ("connected diabetes care") have the potential to become part of a new diabetes care model, augmenting the traditional practice of diabetes care by providing continuous and on-demand assistance ...
Oct 3, 2019
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Medications
Middlemen net more than half of insulin expenditures, study finds
Despite its discovery nearly 100 years ago, insulin's list price has been going up, not down, with trade secrets and other protections preventing researchers from pinpointing who is receiving profits from its sale. Meanwhile, ...
Nov 5, 2021
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Immunology
NIH should create an Office of Autoimmune Disease Research, says new report
While the quantity and quality of research that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) conducts on autoimmune diseases is impressive, a strategic plan and a well-funded office to support the coordination of all autoimmune ...
May 10, 2022
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