Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
California on front line as STDs run rampant in US
A billboard on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood screams out a stark warning: "drug-resistant gonorrhea alert!"
Jun 4, 2018
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Health
Comprehensive primary care initiative improves care delivery
(HealthDay)—Introducing the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative (CPC), a health care delivery model developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), improves primary care delivery but does not reduce ...
Jun 1, 2018
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Comprehensive care physician model improves care, lowers hospitalization
Patients who need frequent hospitalization account for a disproportionate amount of health care spending in the United States. In 2012, the University of Chicago Medicine—funded by a Health Care Innovation Award from the ...
May 16, 2018
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Insider Q&A: Insurers look beyond medical bills to cut costs
Health insurers are moving beyond medical claims. They want to know if you have a ride to the doctor's office or if you're eating right too.
May 13, 2018
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Health
An ironic health care twist for undocumented immigrants
They're in the country illegally. Or maybe they had protected status before, but lost it due to policy changes by the current presidential administration.
May 2, 2018
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Palliative care improves hospital care for seriously ill patients
Palliative care provided by specialist medical and nursing teams to patients with complex health needs significantly improves their experience of care, new research from Trinity College Dublin shows.
May 1, 2018
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HIV & AIDS
First long-term study finds half trillion dollars spent on HIV/AIDS
Spending on HIV/AIDS globally between 2000 and 2015 totaled more than half a trillion dollars, according to a new scientific study, the first comprehensive analysis of funding for the disease.
Apr 18, 2018
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Health
New study finds people covered by universal health coverage will fall far below SDGs
An estimated 5.4 billion people globally are expected to be covered under some form of universal health care (UHC) by 2030, up from 4.3 billion in 2015, but far below the related target in United Nations Sustainable Development ...
Apr 18, 2018
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Maryland's hospital payment reform fails to deliver
An experiment in Maryland designed to save health care dollars by shifting services away from expensive hospital-based care and toward less costly primary, preventive and outpatient services has yielded disappointing results.
Apr 2, 2018
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Medications
Study: More people rely on government catastrophic drug plans
Government spending for the catastrophic drug program in Ontario rose 700 per cent between 2000 and 2016, during which there was a three-fold increase in the use of this plan, a new study has found.
Mar 26, 2018
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