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12/16/15 - Rising obesity puts strain on nursing homes

12/16/15 Rising obesity puts strain on nursing homes

Healthcare Finance News

 

Chism is severely obese, unable to leave her bed without a mechanical lift and a team of nurses. She has not walked in years. Her life is circumscribed by the ...

12/15/15 - Effectiveness and Costs of Biologics in Veterans With Rheumatoid ...

12/15/15 Effectiveness and Costs of Biologics in Veterans With Rheumatoid ...

AJMC.com Managed Markets Network

 

... of different biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and cost per effectively treated patient in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).

12/11/15 - Employers Should Offer Free Screenings for Depression

12/11/15 Employers Should Offer Free Screenings for Depression

Harvard Business Review

 

More importantly, if this health crisis is left unchecked, it will cost lives. It's not AIDS, cancer, or diabetes. It's clinical depression, and it continues to cost America's ...

12/9/15 - Defensive Medicine: Over-Testing Of Type 2 Diabetes Patients ...

12/9/15 Defensive Medicine: Over-Testing Of Type 2 Diabetes Patients ...

Science 2.0

 

Over treatment is a concern because it can lead to higher costs in the ... because of the link between intensive treatment and adverse health outcomes.

12/8/15 - Coordinated health care not helping people with mental health ...

12/8/15 Coordinated health care not helping people with mental health ...

News-Medical.net

 

People who are diagnosed with mental health conditions did not see improvements in coordination and quality of care as hoped but did not experience large ...

12/7/15 - 'Diabetic foot' increases risk for cognitive impairment

12/7/15 'Diabetic foot' increases risk for cognitive impairment

Medical News Today

 

Patients with diabetes who have foot complications may be at greater risk for cognitive impairment. This is the conclusion of a study by researchers from ...

12/7/15 ​Big grocery chains leave US "food deserts" parched

12/7/15 ​Big grocery chains leave US "food deserts" parched

CBS News

 

The Partnership for a Healthier America, which also promotes good nutrition and exercise in its anti-obesity mission, considers improving access to fresh food a ...

12/7/15 - Pediatricians Unveil New Recommendations for Office Visits

12/7/15 Pediatricians Unveil New Recommendations for Office Visits

Live Science

 

Obese children and teens are more likely to have high cholesterol, which is a risk factor for heart disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

12/4/15 - COPD exacerbation frequency and its association with health care ...

12/4/15 COPD exacerbation frequency and its association with health care ...

Dove Medical Press

 

... To describe COPD exacerbation patterns and assess the association between exacerbation frequency and health care resource utilization (HCRU) and costs ...

12/1/15 - Obesity In Youngsters Leading Cause Of Cardiac Death

12/1/15 Obesity In Youngsters Leading Cause Of Cardiac Death

Health Aim

 

Obesity in youngsters or being overweight is being labelled as the leading cause of them developing cardiac conditions. Being puffy is alright because it means ...

11/30/15 - Weight loss can slow degeneration of knee cartilage in obese people

11/30/15 Weight loss can slow degeneration of knee cartilage in obese people

News-Medical.net

Obese people who lose a substantial amount of weight can significantly slow the degeneration of their knee cartilage, according to a new MRI study presented ...

11/24/15 - Value-Based Pricing Will Help With High Rx Costs

11/24/15 Value-Based Pricing Will Help With High Rx Costs

MedPage 

Such spending comes at the expense of spending on health education, which could reduce problems like obesity and teen pregnancy, Senior pointed out.

11/11/15 - More middle-class Americans visit Mexico for low-cost medical care

11/11/15 More middle-class Americans visit Mexico for low-cost medical care

Hanford Sentinel

That means roughly 31 million Americans who bought health insurance still have ... $30,000 and $75,000 per year have delayed medical care because of costs, ...

11/9/15 - 'Defensive Medicine' Could Lead to Fewer Errors, Malpractice Claims

11/9/15 'Defensive Medicine' Could Lead to Fewer Errors, Malpractice Claims

California Healthline

However, they also can add billions of dollars to U.S. health care costs. ... "socially beneficial deterrence" if the costs lead to fewer errors and malpractice claims ...

11/5/15 - Study: Veterans Who Receive Prosthesis Prescription Within 1 Year ...

11/5/15 Study: Veterans Who Receive Prosthesis Prescription Within 1 Year ...

Healio

Kurichi also said it is likely the patients who receive a prescription for a ... the Samuel S. Stratton Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Albany, N.Y.; ...

11/5/15 - Stressed Latino parents twice as likely to have children with obesity

11/5/15 Stressed Latino parents twice as likely to have children with obesity

News-Medical.net

Prior research has shown that stress is associated with obesity in adults, and now for ... Latino parents who feel high levels of stress are twice as likely to have ...

11/3/15 - Nearly 60 percent of Americans — the highest ever — are taking ...

11/3/15 Nearly 60 percent of Americans — the highest ever — are taking ...

Washington Post

Researchers noted that eight of the 10 most commonly used drugs in the United States are used to treat hypertension, heart failure, diabetes or other elements of ...

11/3/15 - Researchers find rise in state-level obesity-related health care costs

11/3/15 Researchers find rise in state-level obesity-related health care costs

News-Medical.net

Nearly 11 percent or $8 billion of the cost to treat severe obesity was paid for by Medicaid in 2013, ranging from a low of $5 million in Wyoming to $1.3 billion in ...

11/2/15 - Pharmacists on Primary Care Teams: Effect on Antihypertensive ...

11/2/15 Pharmacists on Primary Care Teams: Effect on Antihypertensive ...

Medscape

Pharmacists on Primary Care Teams: Effect on Antihypertensive Medication Management in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes. Dima Omran, BSc(Pharm), MSc; ...

11/2/15 - Better HIV Care Could Save Lives, Billions in Health Costs

11/2/15 Better HIV Care Could Save Lives, Billions in Health Costs

Medscape

Improved efforts to link and retain HIV-positive individuals in care, along with increased screening for HIV, could reduce the incidence of HIV ...