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03/31/2009 Economy leaves citizens uninsured

03/31/2009 Economy leaves citizens uninsured

ASU The Appalachian Online‎
College students may not think they need to worry about this because they are usually covered by their parent’s health insurance or they have access to ...

in Health Coverage (Young Adults) |

3/31/09 - It Pays To Sleep: Prioritize Rest To Boost Health, Morale And Revenue

3/31/09 It Pays To Sleep: Prioritize Rest To Boost Health, Morale And Revenue

Medical News Today (press release) 
Lack of sleep means more than fatigue and grouchy countenance: obesity, hypertension, increased risk for stroke and diabetes, cardiac stress, depression, ...

in Prevention |

3/31/09 - Link Between Schizophrenia And Diabetes Discovered By Researchers

3/31/09 Link Between Schizophrenia And Diabetes Discovered By Researchers

Medical News Today (press release)
... a group of risk factors that include abdominal obesity, high lipid and cholesterol blood levels and insulin resistance, is more than 50 percent in women ...

in Diabetes, Mental Health |

3/31/09 - Significantly More Patients With Cardiovascular Disease Quit ...

3/31/09 Significantly More Patients With Cardiovascular Disease Quit ...

Business Wire (press release) 
-5- Before starting varenicline, patients should tell their doctors if they are pregnant, plan to become pregnant, or if they take insulin, asthma medicines ...

in Heart Disease, Prevention, Tobacco |

3/31/09 For Diabetics, On-Demand Care May Not Help

3/31/09 For Diabetics, On-Demand Care May Not Help

U.S. News & World Report
"It appears that timely follow-up for chronic disease management may be compromised if patients are required to remember and schedule their appointment at a ...

in Chronic Care |

3/31/09 Online Checkups Control Blood Pressure

3/31/09 Online Checkups Control Blood Pressure

WebMD
"This is the future of chronic disease management," he tells WebMD. The new study, presented at the ACC annual meeting, involved 388 men and women. ...

in Chronic Care |

3/30/09 - The Path to a High Performance U.S. Health System

3/30/09 - The Path to a High Performance U.S. Health System
The Fund's Rachel Nuzum summarizes the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System report that recommends how to achieve affordable, universal coverage while improving health outcomes and slowing the rate of national health spending, by a cumulative $3 trillion through 2020.

in Health Quality |

3/30/09 - Differences in Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: Experiences of Insured and Uninsured Women in a Safety-Net Setting

3/30/09 - Differences in Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: Experiences of Insured and Uninsured Women in a Safety-Net Setting
Even after controlling for socioeconomic characteristics, uninsured breast cancer patients at a large safety-net hospital system were more likely than their insured counterparts to be diagnosed with advanced disease requiring more extensive and costly treatment, according to this Fund-supported study.

in Health Quality |

3/30/09 - Report Suggests Infection Data From Hospitals Lacking

3/30/09 - Report Suggests Infection Data From Hospitals Lacking


A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) suggests that current methods for collecting data on health care-associated infections (HAI) are disparate and ineffective, resulting in an inaccurate assessment of infection-control problems at ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs), Modern Healthcare reports.

in Health Quality |

3/30/09 - Kaiser Permanent Pilot Improves Heart Disease Outcomes for Patients

3/30/09 - Kaiser Permanent Pilot Improves Heart Disease Outcomes for Patients


A Kaiser Permanente pilot project that provided a multi-disciplinary frontline team with access to electronic health records (EHRs) and an advanced clinical care registry has helped reduce by 73 percent the mortality rate of patients with coronary heart disease, Healthcare IT News reports.

in Health Quality |

3/31/09 - Obesity Worsens Outcomes After Surgery for Pancreatic Cancer

3/31/09 Obesity Worsens Outcomes After Surgery for Pancreatic Cancer

Cancer Consultants
Obesity is increasingly being recognized as a risk factor not only for cancer development, but also for worse outcomes after cancer treatment. ...

in Cancer, Obesity, Prevention |

3/30/09 - Health Tip: Breathe Fresh Air at Home

3/30/09 Health Tip: Breathe Fresh Air at Home

U.S. News & World Report 
(HealthDay News) -- If the air inside your home is dirty, you and your housemates can have symptoms including headache, dizziness, asthma and allergy ...

in Asthma |

3/30/09 Senate budget cuts jobs, school funding

3/30/09 Senate budget cuts jobs, school funding

The Olympian
It also limits state contributions to employee health care — leaving workers to assume more costs of medical inflation. And it slashes $251 million from the ...

in Employee Health and Wellness, Health Costs, Health Policy |

3/30/09 Medical home principles from a consumer angle

3/30/09 Medical home principles from a consumer angle 

ModernHealthcare.com
In the second consumer principle, which calls on the patient-centered medical home to take responsibility for coordinating its patients’ healthcare across ...

in Patient Centered Medical Homes |

3/30/09 - Most American teens aren't getting preventive care; those who are publicly insured or uninsured are less likely to get preventive care than those who are privately insured

3/30/09 - Most American teens aren't getting preventive care; those who are publicly insured or uninsured are less likely to get preventive care than those who are privately insured

U.S, News & World Report, usnews.com

Most American teens don't receive the appropriate amount of preventive health services, even though this type of care can establish good health behaviors and discourage damaging behaviors that can affect teens for the rest of their life, a new study finds ...

in Child Health (Adolescent), Health Coverage, Health Coverage (Uninsured/Safety Net), Prevention |

3/30/09 Rapid Infant Weight Gain Linked to Childhood Obesity

3/30/09 Rapid Infant Weight Gain Linked to Childhood Obesity

U.S. News & World Report
By Tate Gunnerson MONDAY, March 30 (HealthDay News) -- Babies who gain weight quickly during the first six months of life may be more prone to obesity as ...

in Child Health (Obesity) |

3/30/09 Senate budget includes new cuts

3/30/09 Senate budget includes new cuts

Atlanta Journal Constitution
To help fund the health care system, the state will increase state employee health care costs for certain insurance plans. The budget plan includes a $1.2 ...

in Employee Health and Wellness, Health Policy |

03/28/2009 Sensible move on insurance

03/28/2009 Sensible move on insurance

Scranton Times‎
So they go uninsured. The bill is even more important now, as the recession darkens job prospects for tens of thousands of young Pennsylvanians who are ...

in Health Coverage (Young Adults) |

3/27/09 - Increased Interaction Between Physician And Patient Encouraged

3/27/09 Increased Interaction Between Physician And Patient Encouraged

Medical News Today (press release)
... a number of chronic conditions such as some cancers, diabetes and high blood pressure, and a reduction in mortality rates related to these conditions. ...

in Health Coverage |

3/27/09 - Networking May Aid Blacks Who Need Kidney Transplant

3/27/09 Networking May Aid Blacks Who Need Kidney Transplant

U.S. News & World Report
... remove barriers to getting a kidney transplant." The US National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases has more about kidney transplant.

in Health Disparities |

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