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5/31/13 - Obesity rate highest in nation for Michigan seniors, study shows

5/31/13 Obesity rate highest in nation for Michigan seniors, study shows Detroit Free Press Michigan has the highest rate of obese seniors in the country, according to a new report. About 29.5 % of Michigan seniors have a body-mass index of 30.0 or ...

5/31/13 - Resiliency May Come at a Physical Cost for Some Kids

5/31/13 Resiliency May Come at a Physical Cost for Some Kids HealthCanal.com Resiliency May Come at a Physical Cost for Some Kids ... University of Georgia researchers found this resiliency has health costs that last well into adulthood.

5/31/13 - Health Costs Barrier to Almost Half of US Adults

5/31/13 Health Costs Barrier to Almost Half of US Adults D Healthcare Daily Nearly half of U.S. adults ages 19 to 64 reported that cost prevented them from going to the doctor or filling prescriptions, according to the Commonwealth Fund's ...

5/30/13 - New study finds growing disparities in health behaviors among less ...

5/30/13 New study finds growing disparities in health behaviors among less ...

News-Medical.net

Less-educated white women were increasingly more likely to die than their better-educated peers from the mid-1990s through the mid-2000s, according to a ...

5/30/13 - Children Kick Sugary Drink Habit - But Has It Affected Obesity Rates?

5/30/13 Children Kick Sugary Drink Habit - But Has It Affected Obesity Rates?

Medical Daily

"During our 12-year study duration, obesity prevalence, although high, has largely remained stable," Kit told Reuters Health. "We know there are wide efforts to ...

5/30/13 - New Law Aims to Help Small Businesses with Healthcare Costs

5/30/13 New Law Aims to Help Small Businesses with Healthcare Costs KFDX A new Texas law is giving small businesses options to deal with projected increases in the cost ofhealth insurance for their employees. Senate bill 1332 was ...

5/29/13 - Twenty-Eight Percent of Adult Americans Have Risk Factors for Pre ...

5/29/13 Twenty-Eight Percent of Adult Americans Have Risk Factors for Pre ... Albany Times Union  Pre-diabetes increases the likelihood of diabetes, heart disease and stroke. Diabetes ...Approximately 57 million Americans aged 20 or older have pre-diabetes, ...

5/29/13 - Senior health care crisis looms; report ranks states

5/29/13 Senior health care crisis looms; report ranks states

USA TODAY

An aging nation that's living longer but with growing rates of obesity, diabetes and other chronicdiseases points to an emerging health care crisis, says a report ...

5/29/13 - Health gaps may explain varying Medicare costs

5/29/13 Health gaps may explain varying Medicare costs

Futurity: Research News

UC DAVIS (US) — Geographic variation in Medicare costs is largely explained by health differences across communities rather than inefficient medical care, ...

5/28/13 - Pediatricians warned that children of military personnel face mental ...

5/28/13 Pediatricians warned that children of military personnel face mental ...

KBZK Bozeman News

Published May 27, Memorial Day, in the academy's journal Pediatrics, the new clinical report aims to raise awareness among pediatricians for the mental health ...

5/28/13 - Medicaid Expanded for Former Foster Youth — If They Don't Leave ...

5/28/13 Medicaid Expanded for Former Foster Youth — If They Don't Leave ...

Washington Informer

There are over 400,000 children and youth in the foster care system, and almost ... D.C., says that 80 percent of foster youth have one or more chronic medical ...

5/28/13 - Obesity fight: Study shows phone effective as weight loss tool

5/28/13 Obesity fight: Study shows phone effective as weight loss tool

Examiner.com

New research from the Journal on Obesity published May 25, Wiley On-line, suggests the phone may serve to be an equally effective weight loss tool in the fight ...

5/28/13 - Involving Patients in Decisions Raises Health Care Costs, Study Finds

5/28/13 Involving Patients in Decisions Raises Health Care Costs, Study Finds

U.S. News & World Report

"Patients who want to be more involved do not have lower costs. Patients, as consumers, may value elements of care that the health care system might not." ...

5/24/13 - Lower obesity rates for kids in traditional families

5/24/13 Lower obesity rates for kids in traditional families

Futurity: Research News

“There is substantial research on how family structure matters to other domains of children's development, yet little research on why marriage and other family ...

5/24/13 - Soaring ER use adds more pain to health costs

5/24/13 Soaring ER use adds more pain to health costs

MSN Money

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality estimates emergency department costs account for up to 5.8% of total health care spending -- or up to $151 ...

5/23/13 - Depression raises diabetics' risk of severe low blood sugar episodes

5/23/13 Depression raises diabetics' risk of severe low blood sugar episodes

UW Today

By Michael Mc Carthy, UW Health Sciences/ UW Medicine ... The project was supported by funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, grant numbers: ...

5/23/13 - More PE in School, New Report Recommends

5/23/13 More PE in School, New Report Recommends

ABC News

As the report suggests, giving kids more physical activity seems like a no-brainer to help lower the prevalence of obesity rates in elementary school kids, with the ...

5/23/13 - New data highlights urgent crisis posed on US healthcare system by ...

5/23/13 New data highlights urgent crisis posed on US healthcare system by ...

News-Medical.net

This resulted in costs among DFU patients of approximately twice that of matched non-DFU diabetic patients, with annual incremental per-patient healthcare ...

5/22/13 - Sleepless nights may hurt school performance of kids with asthma

5/22/13 Sleepless nights may hurt school performance of kids with asthma MyFox Austin The overall health of Americans isn't improving much, with about six in 10 people ... Racial disparitiesexist in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer among ...

5/22/13 - Cost of Treating Strokes in U.S. Could Soar to $180B Annually by ...

5/22/13 Cost of Treating Strokes in U.S. Could Soar to $180B Annually by ...

Health.com

Over the next two decades, the cost of treating strokes in the United States is expected to more than double, ...