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12/31/14 - Diabetes Could Effect Brain Growth in Children

12/31/14 Diabetes Could Effect Brain Growth in Children

Science Times

While many are familiar with the not-so-sweet implications ofdiabetes, a new study reveals that children suffering with Type-1diabetes may in fact have slower ...

12/31/14 - Cigarette smoking carries high financial cost too

12/31/14 Cigarette smoking carries high financial cost too

ConsumerAffairs

But smoking also imposes a stiff financial toll in the health care costsrequired to treat smoking related diseases. A team of researchers, including some from the ...

12/31/14 - Some businesses use part-time to meet health law

12/31/14 Some businesses use part-time to meet health law

Medical Xpress

Under the health care law, businesses that employ at least 100 full-time ... Forty-two percent of the 900 firms surveyed say their healthplan costs have risen at ...

12/30/14 - Smoke-free Law Continues to Return Benefits After Five Years

12/30/14 Smoke-free Law Continues to Return Benefits After Five Years

Stanly News & Press

An additional benefit of the smoke-free law is the reduced exposure to secondhand smoke, a known risk factor for cancer, heart disease, stroke and asthma.

12/30/14 - Costs Derail Diabetes Care, Despite Insurance Coverage

12/30/14 Costs Derail Diabetes Care, Despite Insurance Coverage

Medscape

Similarly, knowing that patients have difficulty paying for medications could inspire a health system to provide a "cost-effective bundle of selected medications, ...

12/29/14 - The 5 Most Common Health Insurance Exemptions – and Who ...

12/29/14 The 5 Most Common Health Insurance Exemptions – and Who ...

U.S. News & World Report

If you didn't have health insurance this year, you could be on the hook for a ... Despite subsidies to lower costs, health insurance remains unaffordable for ...

12/29/14 - Medical Home Model Reduces Costs, Serious Illness in Children

12/29/14 Medical Home Model Reduces Costs, Serious Illness in Children

Medscape

The program also reduced costs, at $16,523 per child-year for children who ... for outpatient pediatric care and the necessity to restrain health care spending, the ...

12/29/14 - Being uninsured in America will cost you more

12/29/14 Being uninsured in America will cost you more

Boston Herald

The cost of being uninsured in America is going up significantly next year for millions of people as penalties under President Barack Obama's health care law ...

12/23/14 - Two million new enrollees signed up on Healthcare.gov

12/23/14 Two million new enrollees signed up on Healthcare.gov

USA TODAY

About 6.4 million people chose a health plan or were automatically ... He predicts his out-of-pocket costs will be about $4,000 lower next year than they were in ...

12/23/14 - Concomitant depression in breast cancer survivors doubles health ...

12/23/14 Concomitant depression in breast cancer survivors doubles health ...

The Oncology Report

Major finding: Health care costs averaged $15,471 per year in breast cancer survivors with concomitant depression and $8,297 in those without depression.

12/23/14 - Obama Administration to Investigate Insurers for Bias Against Costly ...

12/23/14 Obama Administration to Investigate Insurers for Bias Against Costly ...

New York Times

In a letter to insurers, administration officials said that a health plan could be ... each health plan, it said, it will try to determine the “estimated out-of-pocket costs ...

12/22/14 - Cigarette smoking costs weigh heavily on the healthcare system

12/22/14 Cigarette smoking costs weigh heavily on the healthcare system

Fox News

Of every $10 spent on healthcare in the U.S., almost 90 cents is due to smoking, a new analysis says. Using recent health and medicalspending surveys, ...

12/22/14 - Research: Reducing emergency surgery for common procedures ...

12/22/14 Research: Reducing emergency surgery for common procedures ...

News-Medical.net

New research indicates that reducing emergency surgery for three common procedures by 10 percent could cut $1 billion in health care costs over 10 years.

12/19/14 - Cost, Tax Concerns Prompt Vermont To Hold Off On Single-Payer ...

12/19/14 Cost, Tax Concerns Prompt Vermont To Hold Off On Single-Payer ...

New Hampshire Public Radio

Vermont's big experiment in creating a single-payer health care system is over, at least for now. On Wednesday Governor Peter Shumlin announced he would ...

12/19/14 - HMOs Offer Lower Prices in Health Care Marketplaces

12/19/14 HMOs Offer Lower Prices in Health Care Marketplaces

New York Times

Health insurers are selling more than 100,000 plans at a county level through the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces, at radically different prices and varied ...

12/19/14 - Reducing emergency surgery cuts health care costs

12/19/14 Reducing emergency surgery cuts health care costs

Medical Xpress

New research indicates that reducing emergency surgery for three common procedures by 10 percent could cut $1 billion in health carecosts over 10 years.

12/18/14 - Research raises awareness of dehydration concerns in diabetics

12/18/14 Research raises awareness of dehydration concerns in diabetics

University at Buffalo Reporter

Some drugs used to treat diabetes mimic the behavior of a hormone that a UB psychologist has learned controls fluid intake in subjects. The finding creates new ...

12/18/14 - Independent claims data analysis shows significant health benefits ...

12/18/14 Independent claims data analysis shows significant health benefits ...

Insurance News Net

Optum - the health services platform of UnitedHealth Group - and researchers at the ... and physician support to promote positive health and cost outcomes.

12/18/14 - Do Americans think their health care costs are affordable?

12/18/14 Do Americans think their health care costs are affordable?

CBS News

Americans are feeling the cost of their health care. Fifty-two percent say the amount of money they pay for out-of-pocket health carecosts -- those not covered by ...

12/17/14 - Blood test can predict heart disease risk

12/17/14 Blood test can predict heart disease risk

HealthCentral.com

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new test that can help predict if a person is at risk for coronary heart disease, even if they have no ...