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Consumers remain upbeat

Other Sciences / Economics

created May 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Despite the global recession and the crisis in the banking sector, consumer confidence in financial services remains intact, according to a report compiled for the Nottingham University Business School.





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1 in 7 organ donors concerned about life and health insurance

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 02, 2007 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

According to a new review in American Journal of Transplantation, people who donate their kidney or part of their liver to help someone else may themselves encounter difficulty with life and health insurance, despite insurance ...


Health, life insurers hold billions in tobacco stocks

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

More than a decade after Harvard researchers first revealed that life and health insurance companies were major investors in tobacco stocks - prompting calls upon them to divest - the insurance industry has yet to kick the ...


Insurers offer to stop charging sick people more

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The health insurance industry offered Tuesday for the first time to curb its controversial practice of charging higher premiums to people with a history of medical problems.


HealthMarkets facing multistate probe

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 06, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Insurance regulators in 36 states are investigating the sales practices of two insurance companies owned by HealthMarkets, a report says.


Fear of insurance rejection deters potentially life saving genetic tests for bowel cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An Australian study of families with genetic risk of bowel cancer has found that 50 percent of participants declined genetic testing when informed of insurance implications.


Individuals with family history of genetic disease at risk of discrimination

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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

People with a family history of genetic disease are often discriminated against by insurance companies and their relatives and friends, according to research published in British Medical Journal.


IVF insurance coverage yields fewer multiple births, researchers find

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The proportion of in vitro fertilization (IVF) multiple births was lower in the eight states that provide insurance coverage for couples seeking IVF treatment, primarily due to fewer embryos transferred per cycle, Yale School ...


Time running out for bipartisan health compromise (AP)

Time running out for bipartisan health compromise

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Time is running out for a two-party compromise on health care as a bipartisan group of six Finance Committee senators considers a new proposal that might be the last, best hope for an overhaul agreement.


House passes health care bill on close vote (AP)

Landmark health bill passes House on close vote

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 08, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 5

(AP) -- The Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed far-reaching health care legislation, handing President Barack Obama a hard-won victory on his chief domestic priority though the road ahead in the ...


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, ...



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