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Hypertension among lower-status employees lingers well into retirement
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Retirement from some occupations may not provide relief from the potentially devastating health effects of work-related hypertension, according to a new study from UC Davis.
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Mobile health clinics: Saving lives and money
Jun 01, 2009 |
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Every $1 invested in mobile healthcare for the medically disenfranchised saves $36 in combined emergency department costs avoided and value of life years saved. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Medicine sugges ...
Health in low-income countries: Outsourcing and cash incentives may help
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Contracting private providers of healthcare services and giving cash incentives to patients are two strategies that have been proposed to increase access to healthcare in low income countries. In two new Cochrane Systematic ...
Pharmaceutical disobedience
Jan 27, 2009 |
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Healthcare consumers, benefits managers, and even government officials are using the internet to buy unapproved prescription drugs illegally, according to a report to be published in the International Journal of Electronic He ...
Poor understanding of medicare leads to worse healthcare access
Nov 18, 2008 |
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A study appearing in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society shows that Medicare beneficiaries' understanding of their healthcare benefits may affect their ability to access needed care effectively and could lead them t ...
Health policy expert says US can learn from Dutch universal healthcare coverage
Dec 06, 2008 |
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The United States can learn from the Dutch Health Insurance System model, according to an article by Pauline V. Rosenau, Ph.D., in the December issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
Medicare Part D saves money, survey says
Jul 15, 2006 |
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The Medicare Part D prescription-drug plan helps beneficiaries save money but needs to be simplified, a healthcare industry survey finds.
Study finds US hospitals extremely slow to adopt electronic health records, citing cost
Mar 25, 2009 |
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There is broad consensus that electronic health records (EHR) have the potential to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare providers. Yet, to date, there has been no reliable estimate of the prevalence of ...
Kerry outlines his U.S. healthcare plan
Aug 01, 2006 |
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U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., outlined his 4-point proposal for U.S. healthcare policy in Boston Tuesday, saying every citizen must be covered by 2012.
American seniors living longer on less, study
Jan 28, 2009 |
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Older Americans have experienced huge, negative financial shifts that now make it more difficult to enter retirement with sustainable economic security, a new study finds. Seventy-eight percent of all senior households are ...
Language barriers adversely impact health-care quality
Nov 13, 2007 |
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For the millions of Americans whose native tongue isn’t English, language remains a critical road block to quality healthcare, according to a University of California, Irvine study.
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