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12/31/13 - Calorie counts coming to vending machines across U.S.

12/31/13 Calorie counts coming to vending machines across U.S.

WPXI Pittsburgh

"Also, they point out if just .02% of obese adults — .02% ate 100 fewer calories a week it would save $24 million or more a year in annual healthcare costs.".

 

12/31/13 - Duke study: Nurse home visits for newborn care could save millions

12/31/13 Duke study: Nurse home visits for newborn care could save millions Triangle Business Journal The study showed that for every $1 spent on nurse home-visiting for newborns, $3 were saved in health care costs. The home-visiting program piloted by Duke ...

12/31/13 - Walgreens says it will provide a month's prescriptions at no upfront ...

12/31/13 Walgreens says it will provide a month's prescriptions at no upfront ...

Fox News

Walgreens says it will provide a month's prescriptions at no upfront cost to ...Due to issues with the site, Healthcare.gov, many insurance companies have said ...

12/30/13 - Landmark ADHD Study Backed Drugs Over Therapy at aCost: Report

12/30/13 Landmark ADHD Study Backed Drugs Over Therapy at aCost: Report

Health.com

That 20-year-old study, funded with $11 million from the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health, concluded that the medications outperformed a combination of ...

12/30/13 - 3 things to know when hiring home health aide

12/30/13 3 things to know when hiring home health aide USA TODAY First, knowing whether you need home health care is a good start. ... have and plan to use your long-term care insurance policy to cover home health care costs, ...

12/30/13 - Patients Cram In Tests Before Health-Law Start

12/30/13 Patients Cram In Tests Before Health-Law Start Wall Street Journal Health insurers are especially focused on paring academic teaching and ... of the 1990s, which were widely credited with holding down health costs then, ...

12/27/13 - Is Healthcare Spending Finally Under Control?

12/27/13 Is Healthcare Spending Finally Under Control?

Becker's Hospital Review

A new analysis in the New England Journal of Medicine examines whether the recent slowdown in the growth of healthcare costs is due to the economic ...

12/27/13 - High rates of high blood pressure persist in US Southeast

12/27/13 High rates of high blood pressure persist in US Southeast

Reuters

Obesity seemed to be a main driver of the problem, especially among whites, with the most severely obese having more than four times the risk of high blood ...

12/27/13 - Heart Disease, Stroke Continue to Threaten US Health

12/27/13 Heart Disease, Stroke Continue to Threaten US Health

Science Daily

Heart disease and stroke remain two of the top killers of Americans and pose a significant threat to millions of others, according to ...

12/26/13 - Latin Americans Are More Likely To Be Diabetic Because Of ...

12/26/13 Latin Americans Are More Likely To Be Diabetic Because Of ...

Medical Daily

A study completed by SIGMA found that Latin Americans with a certain gene variant had a higher chance to develop diabetes ...

12/26/13 - US infant mortality rate drops only a little

12/26/13 US infant mortality rate drops only a little

NBCNews.com

The U.S. infant mortality rate, an important measure of a country's overall health, fell just a little bit in 2010, federal health researchers reported ...

12/26/13 - Some heart birth defects may increase children's heart infection risk

12/26/13 Some heart birth defects may increase children's heart infection risk

YottaFire

Children with certain heart birth defects may have an increased risk for bacterial infection of their heart's lining and valves, according to a research in Circulation: ...

12/24/13 - Companies Prepare to Pass More Health Costs to Workers

12/24/13 Companies Prepare to Pass More Health Costs to Workers

Wall Street Journal

Employers have been pushing more of the cost of providing health insurance on to their workers for years, and firms that aren't booking much ...

12/24/13 - Report: Virginia health care cost transparency better than most

12/24/13 Report: Virginia health care cost transparency better than most Daily Press Virginia ranks in the top seven states for transparency in reporting health care costs, according to a national survey. The information was ...

12/23/13 - Growing number of adolescents do not understand risk of marijuana ...

12/23/13 Growing number of adolescents do not understand risk of marijuana ... Healio The Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey measures drug use and attitudes among the ...“While cigarette use among youth continues to decline, such progress is ...

12/23/13 - Burden of heart disease, stroke quantified in United States

12/23/13 Burden of heart disease, stroke quantified in United States Medical Xpress (HealthDay)—The burden of heart disease and stroke is considerable in the United States, according to a American Heart Association Statistical Update ...

12/23/13 - Study Finds Mixed Results for Text Message Diabetes Program

12/23/13 Study Finds Mixed Results for Text Message Diabetes Program iHealthBeat A text message program designed to raise awareness about Type 2 diabetes and help promote health behavior change was effective for some users, but ...

12/20/13 - Fiber-Rich Foods May Cut Your Risk of Heart Disease

12/20/13 Fiber-Rich Foods May Cut Your Risk of Heart Disease

Philly.com

Boosting the amount of fiber in your diet may lower your risk for heart disease, a new study finds. "With so much ...

12/20/13 - Massachusetts Healthcare Spending Highest in the Nation

12/20/13 Massachusetts Healthcare Spending Highest in the Nation

GoLocal Worcester

Health care spending in Massachusetts is the highest in the nation, at 36 percent above the national average. “There's no question we have to get ourcosts ...

12/20/13 - Employees will pay more for health care in 2014

12/20/13 Employees will pay more for health care in 2014

USA TODAY

If you're one of the 150 million Americans who get health insurance through your ... "Employers are experimenting" with ways to control costs, said Paul Fronstin, ...