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Curbing health bills brings different cost: High-deductible insurance cuts premiums, but some fear it leads consumers to

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 30, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Two years ago, Holly Calvillo signed up for a new type of health insurance that was just starting to get popular. It had a nice low premium but a high deductible. Calvillo and her husband were young and healthy. She figured ...





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Residents play key role in CT colonography awareness and promoting the radiology specialty

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Residents can serve a vital role in educating Congress, the medical community, and the general public regarding the efficacy of cutting-edge technologies like CT colonography (CTC) as well as the importance of radiologists' ...


A need for leadership in primary care

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Community health centers have become the centerpiece of the nation's efforts to provide access to primary care for all and therefore experience a greater need for primary care providers, who already are in short supply. According ...


Organized phone therapy for depression found cost-effective

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When people get brief, structured, phone-based cognitive behavioral psychotherapy soon after starting on antidepressant medication, significant benefits may persist two years after their first session, with only modest rises ...


ACPM recommends primary care have systems in place for screening and treating depression

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) supports the recommendations of the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) that primary care providers should screen all adults for depression, and further recommends ...


Health care accounts for 8 percent of US carbon footprint

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The American health care sector accounts for nearly a tenth of the country's carbon dioxide emissions, according to a first-of-its-kind calculation of health care's carbon footprint.


The cost of improving dialysis care

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Improving survival among dialysis patients may increase treatment costs significantly, according to a paper being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 42nd Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in San Diego, ...


Older workers spend less on necessities and health care

Older workers spend less on necessities and health care

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More older Americans are choosing to continue to work or are returning to the labor force. The number of workers age 65 and older is predicted to increase by more than 80 percent by 2016. In an ongoing study, ...


Hospital re-admission high for dialysis patients treated in long-term care hospitals

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study by University of Cincinnati (UC) nephrologists shows that most dialysis patients admitted to long-term care hospitals face readmission to acute care facilities, and those with acute kidney failure don't often ...


Over 2,200 veterans died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance

Over 2,200 veterans died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A research team at Harvard Medical School estimates 2,266 U.S. military veterans under the age of 65 died last year because they lacked health insurance and thus had reduced access to care. That figure is ...


Insured African Americans more likely to use emergency room than other insured groups

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created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- African Americans enrolled in HMOs are far more likely to use the ER and to delay getting needed prescription drugs than HMO-insured members of other racial and ethnic groups, a new study has found.



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