http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. It's a common scene: Mom brings aching child with some bug to the doctor's office, expecting the doctor to do, well, something. http://www.physorg.com/news179741749.html Medicine & Health Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:30:01 EST news179741749 Low alcohol consumption is bad for your health in general. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation studied the relationship between alcohol consumption and health to test the current theory which suggests improved health is responsible for the link found between low alcohol consumption and increased wages. http://www.physorg.com/news175502568.html Medicine & Health Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:40:01 EST news175502568 A new poll by the Harvard School of Public Health and The Boston Globe finds 59% of Massachusetts residents who are aware of the state's health reform legislation, which was enacted in 2006, support it. A little more than one in four oppose it (28%), and 13% are not sure. The level of public support for the law has declined somewhat in the last year, from 69% saying they support the law in 2008 to 59% in the current poll. The current number is similar to the 61% found in 2006. Support for the law varied by party affiliation, with 76% of Democrats, 56% of Independents, and just 35% of Republicans saying they support the legislation. The poll was conducted September 14-16, 2009. http://www.physorg.com/news173365975.html Medicine & Health Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:30:12 EST news173365975 (AP) -- Sen. Max Baucus on Wednesday released the much-awaited Finance Committee version of an American health-system remake - a landmark $856 billion, 10-year measure that starts a rough ride through Congress without visible Republican backing. http://www.physorg.com/news172316961.html Medicine & Health Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:50:28 EST news172316961 Nationally, family premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance increased 119 percent between 1999 and 2008, and could increase another 94 percent to an average $23,842 per family by 2020 if cost growth continues on its current course, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. http://www.physorg.com/news169995168.html Medicine & Health Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:53:36 EST news169995168 (AP) -- Obesity's not just dangerous, it's expensive. New research shows medical spending averages $1,400 more a year for an obese person than for someone who's normal weight. Overall obesity-related health spending reaches $147 billion, double what it was nearly a decade ago, says the study published Monday by the journal Health Affairs. http://www.physorg.com/news167924447.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:00:03 EST news167924447 In these times of trillion-dollar budgets and deficits, $6.3 billion may not seem like much money, but that's what the United States potentially could save on each group of adolescents who enter foster care every year. http://www.physorg.com/news163165667.html Medicine & Health Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:10:30 EST news163165667 Promoting the health of young children, before five years of age, could save society up to $65 billion in future health care costs, according to an examination of childhood health conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The results are published in the May 15, 2009, issue of Academic Pediatrics. http://www.physorg.com/news161607693.html Medicine & Health Fri, 15 May 2009 12:02:01 EST news161607693 Women are more likely than men to feel the pinch of rising health costs and eroding health benefits, with about half (52%) of working-age women reporting problems accessing needed care because of costs, compared to 39 percent of men, a new Commonwealth Fund study finds. Women who are insured but have inadequate coverage are especially vulnerable: 69 percent of underinsured women have problems accessing care because of costs, compared to half (49%) of underinsured men. http://www.physorg.com/news161244215.html Medicine & Health Mon, 11 May 2009 07:05:01 EST news161244215 (AP) -- General Electric Co. said Thursday that it will invest $6 billion over the next six years in an attempt to lower the cost of health care and improve the quality of medical care in underserved regions of the United States and abroad. http://www.physorg.com/news160942068.html Medicine & Health Thu, 07 May 2009 19:08:24 EST news160942068 Approximately 6.3 million adults -or one fourth of the people in the U.S. with diabetes mellitus -are unaware they have the disease, and this undiagnosed population accounts for an estimated $18 billion in health care costs each year, according to a study in a recent issue of Population Health Management, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert. http://www.physorg.com/news160922233.html Medicine & Health Thu, 07 May 2009 13:37:39 EST news160922233 Turns out most Americans are all for moving to a comprehensive system of electronic medical records. They just don't think it's going to save us any money when it comes to health care. http://www.physorg.com/news160219155.html Medicine & Health Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:19:41 EST news160219155 (AP) -- Smoking takes years off your life and adds dollars to the cost of health care. Yet nonsmokers cost society money, too - by living longer. http://www.physorg.com/news158395954.html Medicine & Health Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:53:08 EST news158395954 (AP) -- The health care costs of Alzheimer's disease patients are more than triple those of other older people, and that doesn't even include the billions of hours of unpaid care from family members, a new report suggests. http://www.physorg.com/news157096895.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:02:30 EST news157096895 Women experiencing physical abuse from intimate partners spent 42 percent more on health care per year than non-abused women, according to a long-term study of more than 3,000 women. http://www.physorg.com/news157042766.html Medicine & Health Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:59:56 EST news157042766 (AP) -- AT&T Inc., the largest employer of union labor in the country, is renegotiating contracts that cover 112,500 workers and looks set to take advantage of the recession to reduce its health care costs. http://www.physorg.com/news156176410.html Technology Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:20:30 EST news156176410 States that dropped regulations overseeing the performance of two common heart procedures showed no increase in death rates, according to researchers at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), Rice University and Duke University Medical Center. The findings are available online in the journal Health Services Research. http://www.physorg.com/news152279091.html Medicine & Health Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:45:18 EST news152279091 The drive toward containing health care costs could have the unintended consequence of reducing physician productivity, impairing quality and perhaps even increasing costs, two Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center physicians suggest in a New England Journal of Medicine "Perspective." http://www.physorg.com/news150571662.html Medicine & Health Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:27:42 EST news150571662 People with substance abuse disorders cost Medicaid hundreds of millions of dollars annually in medical care, suggesting that early interventions for substance abuse could not only improve outcomes but also save substantial amounts of money, according to a comprehensive study that examined records of nearly 150,000 people in six states. http://www.physorg.com/news150374094.html Medicine & Health Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:34:54 EST news150374094 A new report suggests that treating gum disease in patients who have diabetes with procedures such as cleanings and periodontal scaling is linked to 10 to 12 percent lower medical costs per month. http://www.physorg.com/news149272162.html Medicine & Health Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:29:22 EST news149272162 Non-invasive coronary CT angiography (CTA) is more cost-effective than current tests for diagnosing women with low risk of a heart attack who come to the emergency room with acute chest pain, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. http://www.physorg.com/news137424481.html Medicine & Health Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:28:01 EST news137424481 Most adults in the U.S. will be overweight or obese by 2030, with related health care spending projected to be as much as $956.9 billion, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Their results are published in the July 2008 online issue of Obesity. http://www.physorg.com/news136467510.html Medicine & Health Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:38:30 EST news136467510