Medical economics
Many Americans frustrated in search for low-cost COVID boosters
Americans seeking out the new COVID boosters are finding themselves held back by insurance entanglements and supply delays.
Sep 22, 2023
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News tagged with private sector
Oncology & Cancer
I've just been diagnosed with cancer, now what?
In one pivotal instant your life has changed and there will be no turning back. How will you accept, adjust and adapt to being "someone who has cancer"?
Sep 21, 2023
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Health informatics
New framework for making data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable
The FAIRplus consortium, including EMBL-EBI and pharmaceutical companies, has launched a new framework to help organizations make their data FAIR.
Jun 29, 2023
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Medical economics
Nordic citizens must have a voice in the future of AI and health care, says researcher
The Nordic countries' national strategies point to the growing scale and scope of AI in health care as inevitable and essential. But the future isn't set, and citizens must be involved in which path to take, says researcher ...
May 16, 2023
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Surgery
Socio-economic inequalities in access to joint replacement surgery in England
The provision of joint replacement surgery in England is subject to socio-economic inequalities, despite a years-long effort to reduce them. A study of hip and knee surgeries over a ten-year period, published April 27 in ...
Apr 27, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Research reveal eating disorder burden weighs on parents
With eating disorders on the rise among young people, a Flinders University expert is calling for an urgent increase in support for parents as new research reveals the immense burden they often endure.
Apr 18, 2023
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Health
How commercial actors influence and impact health and society
Commercial actors can contribute positively to health and society, and many do, providing essential products and services. However, some of these actors are escalating avoidable levels of ill health, damage to the planet, ...
Apr 6, 2023
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Medical economics
The NHS paid private hospitals £2bn in the pandemic but some treated more private patients than NHS ones
Private hospitals were paid around £2bn to help the NHS during the first year of the COVID pandemic. But an investigation by The BMJ has found that just 30 of the 200 private hospitals were used to treat patients with COVID-19 ...
Feb 15, 2023
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Attention deficit disorders
Wondering about ADHD, autism and your child's development? What to know about getting a neurodevelopmental assessment
With childcare and schools starting the new year, parents might be anxiously wondering how their child will adapt in a new learning environment. Some parents may be concerned about their child's development or that they need ...
Feb 3, 2023
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Medical economics
Privatizing health services is a bad idea that just won't go away
Canadian health economist Robert Evans called them zombies: ideas killed long ago by evidence, but re-emerging from the grave—often in disguise.
Jan 3, 2023
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