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1/31/14 - Bulimics 4 Times More Likely to Get Diabetes

1/31/14 Bulimics 4 Times More Likely to Get Diabetes

U.S. News & World Report

The researchers' results showed that people with diabetes were more likely to have depression, bulimia, binge-eating disorder and a lesser known illness, ...

1/31/14 Medicare Bill Focuses on Treating Chronic Illnesses

1/31/14 Medicare Bill Focuses on Treating Chronic Illnesses Medscape A new bipartisan bill in Congress proposes a bold, even whizbang approach to caring for Medicare's sickest, most expensive patients — those with multiple ...

1/31/14 - Maryland may be the model for curbing hospital costs

1/31/14 Maryland may be the model for curbing hospital costs

USA TODAY

In approving Maryland's Medicare waiver, the U.S. Department of Health and... with a financial interest in keeping costs down would control hospital spending.

1/30/14 - Does Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Need A New Name?

1/30/14 Does Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Need A New Name?

WUWM

The Institute of Medicine is reviewing how chronic fatigue syndrome is ... a hard time gettingcare, according to Carol Head, CEO of the Chronic Fatigue and ...

1/30/14 - Health Law Is A Tough Sell To Uninsured

1/30/14 Health Law Is A Tough Sell To Uninsured Washington Post In addition, the pollsters noted that almost half of people without coverage were unaware the law includes subsidies to offset premium costs for people of low ...

1/30/14 - UM study: Health information exchanges can reduce redundant ER ...

1/30/14 UM study: Health information exchanges can reduce redundant ER ... Crain's Detroit Business   The study report, “Does Health Information Exchange Reduce Redundant ... avoided costsare small relative to the annual healthcare expenditures in the United ...

1/29/14 - Asthma care improvement initiative shows positive results among ...

1/29/14 Asthma care improvement initiative shows positive results among ... Healio Researchers used the Chronic Care Model as an evidence-based framework to guide changes in asthma care. In 2007, study participants were given ...

1/29/14 - Study: Health Care Costs Grow With Body Mass

1/29/14 Study: Health Care Costs Grow With Body Mass ClaimsJournal.com Researchers at Duke Medicine report that health care costs increase in parallel with body mass measurements, even beginning at a recommended healthy ...

1/28/14 - One In Four U.S. Families Struggles To Pay Their Medical Bills

1/28/14 One In Four U.S. Families Struggles To Pay Their Medical Bills

ThinkProgress

About one quarter of American families are struggling under the weight ofhealth care costs, according to new government data from the Centers for Disease ...

1/28/14 - Labeling obesity as a disease may have psychological costs

1/28/14 Labeling obesity as a disease may have psychological costs

Medical Xpress

Messages that describe obesity as a disease may undermine healthybehaviors and beliefs among obese individuals, according to a new study published in ...

1/28/14 - Americans' Disconnect Over Health Costs

1/28/14 Americans' Disconnect Over Health Costs Forbes With the average cost of employer-sponsored health insurance up dramatically — from roughly $9,000 in 2003 to $16,000 in 2013 — the high price of medical ...

1/27/14 - A new initiative improves asthma control in teenagers

1/27/14 A new initiative improves asthma control in teenagers Medical News Today Dr. Maria Britto, senior author of the new study and director of the Center for Innovation inChronic Disease Care at Cincinnati Children's, says: "Improving ...

1/27/14 - Centre'd on Diabetes: Yearly eye exams important for thediabetic ...

1/27/14 Centre'd on Diabetes: Yearly eye exams important for thediabetic ...

Centre Daily Times

Diabetes is on the rise in the United States and across the globe, resulting in more cases of blindness, even in working-age adults. The National Eye Institute ...

1/27/14 - Bad version of 'good' cholesterol causes disease

1/27/14 Bad version of 'good' cholesterol causes disease

Medical News Today

Studies have suggested that a form of so-called good cholesterol, or high-density lipoprotein, can become dysfunctional and instead of protecting against heart ...

1/24/14 - One health system cut diabetes events, with set patient measures ...

1/24/14 One health system cut diabetes events, with set patient measures ... Clinical Endocrinology News Digital Network An incentivized, system-based approach to improve care for patients with diabetes and other chronic diseases appeared to pay off after just 3 years by ...

1/24/14 - Study shows disparities in aging across state

1/24/14 Study shows disparities in aging across state Boston Globe ... with affluence and more access to medical care and other services, yet these ...Statewide, 8 percent of residents 65 and older did not report any chronic ...

1/23/14 - Physically Active Men Live Longer After Cancer,Cardiovascular ...

1/23/14 Physically Active Men Live Longer After Cancer,Cardiovascular ...

SeniorJournal.com

Physically Active Men Live Longer After Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease; Reduce ... disease survivors, and the other concludes it reduces heart failurerisk.

1/23/14 - Increasing Health Care at Home Integral to Success of the...

1/23/14 Increasing Health Care at Home Integral to Success of the...

Healthcare Finance News

So states The Growing Case for Health Care at Home: A Six-Point Blueprint for ... hospital readmission rates and operating patient-centered medicalhomes.

1/22/14 - Obesity And Air Pollution Lead To More Asthma In Kids

122/14 Obesity And Air Pollution Lead To More Asthma In Kids

Science 2.0

Obese children exposed to high levels of air pollutants were nearly three times as likely to have asthma, compared with non-obese children and lower levels of ...

1/22/14 - Is Too Much Sitting Hazardous For Your Health? Study Finds Heart ...

1/22/14 Is Too Much Sitting Hazardous For Your Health? Study Finds Heart ...

International Business Times

Heart failure occurs when the heart cannot maintain proper blood flow. According to the American Heart Association, 1 in 5 Americans over the age of 40 will ...