News tagged with medical costs
Ubiquitous health: Enabling telemedicine to cut hospital visits, save money
Dec 09, 2009 |
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A ubiquitous health monitoring system that automatically alerted the patient's family or physician to problematic changes in the person's vital signs could cut hospital visits and save lives, according to Japanese researchers ...
To eat or not to eat? Mental budgets help control consumption
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Nov 17, 2009 |
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If you feel like you're in a losing battle with a triple-chocolate cake, a "mental budget" can help, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
Senate health care bill to include public option (Update)
Oct 26, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Health care legislation heading for the Senate floor will give millions of Americans the option of purchasing government-run insurance coverage, Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Monday, although ...
Costly cancer drugs are worth it, study finds
Aug 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The cost for chemotherapy medications to treat colorectal cancer for six months has jumped 2,600 percent from 1993 to 2005. But such rising costs are worth the price, asserts a new report from Cornell, when ...
Americans need lifestyle change to fight the fat: experts
Jul 28, 2009 |
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Americans need to change the way they live if they want to beat the obesity epidemic that is robbing the United States of millions of dollars every year and threatening a generation with shorter lives, experts said Monday.
Illness, medical bills linked to nearly two-thirds of bankruptcies
Jun 04, 2009 |
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Medical problems contributed to nearly two-thirds (62.1 percent) of all bankruptcies in 2007, according to a study in the August issue of the American Journal of Medicine that will be published online Thursday. The data w ...
Number of Americans with disability growing; arthritis cited as most common cause
Apr 30, 2009 |
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Nearly 48 million Americans have a disability, an increase of three million from 1999, and arthritis tops the list of most common causes of disability, according to an article published today in the Centers for Disease Control ...
