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. Planning -- regarding money or time -- can bring tangible benefits to consumers. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research discovered what makes planners tick. http://www.physorg.com/news180030566.html Other Sciences Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:30:02 EST news180030566 Highly skilled women who have lost their job tend not to realise their plans to start a family. This is the clear finding of a major study conducted by the University of Linz with support from the Austrian Science Fund FWF. According to the findings, career development issues can come to dominate the long-term life plans of women who have lost their job. The study also points toward additional socio-economic factors that can impact on birth rates over the long term. http://www.physorg.com/news169738100.html Other Sciences Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:40:02 EST news169738100 (AP) -- House Democrats are crafting a plan that would require all Americans to carry health insurance and would help families making less than $88,000 pay the premiums. Employers, too, would have to help foot the bill. http://www.physorg.com/news161535116.html Medicine & Health Thu, 14 May 2009 15:53:32 EST news161535116 (AP) -- Patients and doctors. Small businesses and multinationals. Retirees, workers and insurance companies. http://www.physorg.com/news161142072.html Medicine & Health Sun, 10 May 2009 02:42:30 EST news161142072 Private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans will be paid $11.4 billion more in 2009 than what the same beneficiaries would have cost in the traditional Medicare fee-for-service program, according to a new report released today by The Commonwealth Fund. This new analysis, The Continuing Costs of Privatization: Extra Payments to Medicare Advantage Plans Jump to $11.4 Billion in 2009, estimates that since MA was enacted in 2004, $43 billion in extra payments have been made. http://www.physorg.com/news160635927.html Medicine & Health Mon, 04 May 2009 06:05:57 EST news160635927 (AP) -- As wireless carriers start reporting first-quarter results this week, investors will be looking at the effects of some spectacular price cuts for prepaid cell phone service. http://www.physorg.com/news159456790.html Technology Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:33:33 EST news159456790 http://www.physorg.com/news159019833.html Medicine & Health Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:11:06 EST news159019833 High-deductible health plans are increasingly used by healthy people who are unlikely to incur high medical expenses. But they also end up enrolling many low-income, vulnerable families, finds a study of Massachusetts families from Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School's Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention (DACP). The study appears in the April issue of the journal Pediatrics. http://www.physorg.com/news157615314.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:04:52 EST news157615314 (PhysOrg.com) -- The way J. Michael Collins sees it, United States consumers aren`t necessarily less informed about financial risk than consumers from other industrialized nations. What Americans do have, however, are an abundance of ways to screw up. http://www.physorg.com/news154792598.html Other Sciences Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:57:39 EST news154792598 A comprehensive set of insurance, payment, and system reforms could guarantee affordable health insurance coverage, improve health outcomes, and slow the growth of health spending by $3 trillion by the end of the next decade, according to a new report released today by the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System. The report, The Path to a High Performance U.S. Health System: A 2020 Vision and the Policies to Pave the Way, details the Commission's recommendations for an integrated set of policies and assesses the impacts of specific policy actions from 2010 to 2020, compared to the status quo. http://www.physorg.com/news154264641.html Medicine & Health Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:18:37 EST news154264641 More people who need mental health services will seek follow-up care if the price is right, Brown University researchers have found. http://www.physorg.com/news149271928.html Medicine & Health Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:25:28 EST news149271928 (PhysOrg.com) -- You don't have to look far these days to find examples of corporate scandals involving fraud. But Judi McLean Parks, the Reuben C. and Anne Carpenter Taylor Professor of Organizational Behavior at Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, wanted to find out what actually motivates people to "cook the books." http://www.physorg.com/news147975119.html Other Sciences Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:11:59 EST news147975119 Seven years after Sept. 11, and in the wake of many major natural disasters such as forest fires, hurricanes and flooding, nearly half of U.S. states either have no state-level emergency plan or do not provide it readily to the public, reveals a new study by George Mason University Communication Professor Carl Botan. http://www.physorg.com/news143978561.html Other Sciences Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:02:41 EST news143978561 (PhysOrg.com) -- How severely retirees will be affected by the continuing financial crisis and subsequent "credit crunch" depends to a considerable extent on the kinds of retirement plans they rely on for retirement income, according to a University at Buffalo Law School professor who specializes in the regulation of retirement plans and other employee-benefit plans. http://www.physorg.com/news142790325.html Other Sciences Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:58:45 EST news142790325 By comparing early dinosaurs to their closest competitors, the curuotarsans, Steve Brusatte of the American Museum of Natural History and colleagues have found that dinosaurs had no special ability to dominate the landscape for 160 million years. Curuotarsans looked better during the Triassic, having twice the disparity (or variation in body plans) and evolving at similar rates until rapid global warming spurred extinction of most groups (except crocodiles) while nearly all dinosaur groups survived. http://www.physorg.com/news140359371.html Other Sciences Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:42:51 EST news140359371