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U.S. Health Insurance Survey: 84 Million People Were Uninsured for a Time or Underinsured in 2012
April 26, 2013 — 84 million people -- nearly half of working-age US adults -- went without health insurance for a time last year or had out-of-pocket costs that were so high relative to income they were considered ... > full story -
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Cost-Effectiveness of Helicopter Transport of Trauma Victims Examined
April 25, 2013 — Researchers have for the first time determined how often emergency medical helicopters need to help save the lives of seriously injured people to be considered cost-effective compared with ground ... > full story -
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Facebook Interests Could Help Predict, Track and Map Obesity
April 24, 2013 — The higher the percentage of people in a city, town or neighborhood with Facebook interests suggesting a healthy, active lifestyle, the lower that area's obesity rate. At the same time, areas with a ... > full story -
ERs Have Become De Facto Psych Wards
April 24, 2013 — Long waits for insurance authorization allowing psychiatric patients to be admitted to the hospital from the emergency department waste thousands of hours of physician time, given that most requests ... > full story -
Targeted Screening for Hepatitis C Is Cost-Effective
April 24, 2013 — Researchers have found that targeted screening for populations with a higher estimated prevalence for hepatitis C may be ... > full story -
Costs to Treat Heart Failure Expected to More Than Double by 2030
April 24, 2013 — By 2030, you — and every U.S. taxpayer — could be paying $244 a year to care for heart failure patients, according to a new policy ... > full story -
Study Reveals Alcohol Industry Tactics to Influence Alcohol Policy Reform in Scotland
April 23, 2013 — The alcohol industry misrepresented international evidence on effective alcohol control measures in an attempt to influence the Scottish Government's public health policy to its advantage, according ... > full story -
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Children Routinely Injured or Killed by Guns, U.S. Study Shows; Access to Loaded, Unlocked Firearms Remains a Problem
April 23, 2013 — While gun control issues usually surface after major incidents like the fatal shooting of 20 elementary school students in Newtown, Connecticut, a new U.S. study shows that children are routinely ... > full story -
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Doctors-in-Training Spend Very Little Time at Patient Bedside, Study Finds
April 23, 2013 — Medical interns spend just 12 percent of their time examining and talking with patients, and more than 40 percent of their time behind a computer, according to a new study that closely followed ... > full story -
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Diagnostic Errors More Common, Costly and Harmful Than Treatment Mistakes
April 22, 2013 — In reviewing 25 years of U.S. malpractice claim payouts, researchers found that diagnostic errors — not surgical mistakes or medication overdoses — accounted for the largest fraction of ... > full story
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