Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Some states looking to reduce the number of uninsured residents have passed laws that allow young adults to stay on their parents' coverage longer, the AP/Houston Chronicle reports. Nearly all states, when regulating insurance plans for small- and medium-sized companies, set a maximum age for coverage of dependent children -- ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Hispanics are more concerned than whites about the loss of employer-sponsored health insurance, according to a survey released on Wednesday by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Dallas Morning News reports.
For the survey, research company Yankelovich interviewed 3,157 U.S. residents last February, and the Economic Policy Institute analyzed the results. The survey ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The New York Times on Thursday examined how Britain's National Health Service, which provides all residents with no-cost medical services, has "been wrestling with a problem its founders never anticipated: how to handle patients with complex illnesses who want to pay for parts of their treatment while receiving the rest ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) and BIO Ventures for Global Health (BVGH) are pleased to announce U.S. Senator Sam Brownback, R-Kan., will deliver the Breakfast Plenary, "Incentives to Drive Innovation," at the Partnering for Global Health Forum 2008, to be held March 11-12 near Washington, D.C. The conference, which is ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, USA, is working with Google to pilot a new information system that will give patients control over their health records.
Over 100,000 patients with the Clinic already use the Clinic's electronic personal health record (PHR) system. The pilot will extend an invitation for up to 10,000 existing ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Proposals to address the "health crisis that we all share -- getting good, timely medical service and being able to afford it" -- require physicians and politicians to answer three "critical" questions: "Will you get past your partisanship to talk to one another, will you feel my pain and are ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
"The U.S. Economy and Changes in Health Insurance Coverage, 2000-2006," Health Affairs: The Web exclusive, by Urban Institute researchers John Holahan and Allison Cook, finds that the number of uninsured U.S. residents increased by 3.4 million from 2004 to 2006 despite a resurgent economy at the time. The study is ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The California Department of Public Health this week is observing "Black Infant Health Week" to focus on reducing the gap between black and white infant mortality rates, the Contra Costa Times reports. According to the Times, black infants in California are twice as likely as infants of any other race ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene last fall began a review of bathhouses in the city after it recorded between 2001 and 2006 a 33% increase in new HIV diagnoses among men younger than age 30 who have sex with men, the New York Times reports. ...
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