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Judge upholds most of award in flesh-eating case
Mar 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A federal judge has upheld most of an $8.5 million judgment awarded to a woman who lost use of her arm due to flesh-eating bacteria misdiagnosed by an Air Force base doctor.
Study reveals marriage dowry as major cause of poverty in Bangladesh
Oct 30, 2008 |
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More than 35 million people in Bangladesh, around a quarter of its population, face acute poverty and hunger. Dowry payments of more than 200 times the daily wage and costly medical expenses are major causes ...
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Study: Growth in research comes at a steep price
Jan 12, 2009 |
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A study released this month confirms and quantifies what many medical school deans and financial administrators have long understood: Basic science research can be an expensive luxury. The study, which was conducted by the ...
Sickest patients still struggle under new Medicare Part D benefit
Apr 22, 2008 |
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A recent study finds that the advantages of the new Medicare Part D drug benefit—a program that for the first time offers Medicare recipients prescription drug coverage—are mixed. On the one hand, both healthy and sick beneficiaries ...
Socio-demographic factors influence costs of back pain
Jun 17, 2008 |
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It is well-known that back pain belongs to the most frequent health problems in the industrial nations and, it is also well-known that it is the cause of considerable costs for health insurance schemes and the economy. In ...
Osteoarthritis increases aggregate health care expenditures by $186 billion annually
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Osteoarthritis (OA), a highly prevalent disease, raised aggregate annual medical care expenditures in the U.S. by $185.5 billion according to researchers from Stony Brook University. Insurers footed $149.4 billion of the ...
Study: Doctor-patient conversations at end of life associated with lower medical expenses
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Few physicians are eager to discuss end-of-life care with their patients. Yet such conversations may result in better quality of life for patients and could lower national healthcare expenditures for cancer care alone by ...
Japanese study shows overweight people live longest
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Good news at last for chubby people having a few love handles may help a person live longer, a recent study showed.
New Mexican health-care program successful at reducing crippling health care costs
Apr 08, 2009 |
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Seguro Popular, a Mexican health care program instituted in 2003, has already reduced crippling health care costs among poorer households, according to an evaluation conducted by researchers at Harvard University in collaboration ...
For low-income families with special needs kids, where you live matters (w/ Video)
Dec 04, 2009 |
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In the United States, caring for a child with special health care needs usually means higher medical expenses for a family — particularly for low-income families, who spend a disproportionally large share of their income ...
Smashing trash with solar power
Dec 21, 2009 |
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They seem to turn heads wherever they're installed: new solar-powered trash compactors that are meant to save time and energy.
Girl's birth defect exacts financial toll
Jan 30, 2009 |
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Since their Katelyn was born five years ago, Cheryl and Christopher Woodley have known the stress of rearing a child with special medical needs.
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