Glaucoma leading cause of blindness in Hispanics
...on, were less adjusted to American culture, lacked insurance coverage and had not seen an eye care provider within the past two years. Those with uncorrected problems were more likely to report difficulties with general vision, near vision, distance vision and driving. These people also were more likely to r...Conference focuses on practical strategies for preventing and treating obesity
...endocrinology at USF. Dr. Eichler said he expects insurance companies and Medicare to eventually follow suit b...meaning to preventive medicine, which, by history, insurance companies have refused to pay for. "It may take some time, but the pedulum is now swinging in the d...Common asthma drug saves patients money, trips to hospital
... analyzing 18 months' worth of insurance claims data for three asthma medications, researchers found that the most effective of the medications cost nearly two to three times less than the other drugs. ...Study shows digestive, liver woes cost nation $85.5 billion annually
...fer from these diseases but do not have the health insurance coverage or other resources at their disposal to access health care services are underdiagnosed and undertreated, he said. Because some of these diseases are inversely correlated with socioeconomic status, there is likely to be underreporting. ...Research shows different races, ethic groups receiving different levels of preventive care
...ter controlling for age, education, employment and insurance status, 66 percent of white women who would have been eligible for mammography received it compared with 70 percent of black women and 74 percent of Hispanic women. After again controlling for those factors, they found 70 percent of eligible white ...The 'forbidden' questions on genetic testing
... has recently applied for life insurance. However, insurance companies in the United Kingdom are currently proh...lp decide what use, if any, such tests might be to insurance companies. Currently, insurance companies are concerned that people who have had genetic tests may t...Would 'race' disappear if the United States officially stopped measuring it?
...ly minority neighborhoods in the home mortgage and insurance industries, differential medical treatment, and tracking in schools, all exemplify social practices that sociologists study and want to continue to study. The 15-page ASA statement on race gives examples of significant research findings that illustr...Rogue trees get criminal treatment from scientists.
...e specialists - and building surveyors, as well as insurance companies. Kirsten Wolff, one of the company's di...ish which tree is to blame and thus indicate which insurance company should pay out. "The problem is much easier to solve when there are different trees growing...Science picks leads, feeds and story seeds (October 2002 edition)
...kes in U.S. history. Builders, developers and the insurance industry can factor this kind of earthquake shaking information into how and where buildings are built and how building codes and zoning regulations are developed. For more information, visit http://www.ceri.memphis.edu/usgs/aboutus.shtml . Caroly...UT Southwestern researcher, colleagues report drug therapy eases chronic depression
...ng message to health maintenance organizations and insurance companies that deny long-term treatment for a disease that affects millions of Americans. The study, reported in the Archives of General Psychiatry, is the first to systematically look at the long-term impact of depression treatment in the lives of p...Northwestern launches major gene banking project
...ity and will not be shared with his/her physician, insurance provider, employer or family members. Each participant and blood sample will be assigned a unique serial number that is randomly generated by a computer. This database contains the only link between the participant's name, medical record number and s...Health care rationing in Germany
...rn due to the specific feature of a private health insurance regime. "In addition, it was completely unknown whether sex plays also a role in discriminating against older people in hospitals", says Brockmann. That is why she started a research project based on data obtained from Germany's largest health insure...Supervised exercise program is an effective remedy for cramping leg pain
...r many patients, so it is a shame that, because of insurance reimbursement issues, such cardiac rehabilitation programs remain almost universally unavailable to Americans with PAD and claudication." Although exercise training does not appear to increase the amount of blood that reaches the limbs, it increa...Underserved US minorities face 'unequal burden of cancer' that must be corrected
...e curative surgery, even though they have the same insurance coverage and seem to be on the same economic level. Other minorities and underserved groups also are facing a disproportionate rate of cancer incidence and mortality in this country. Native Americans, for example, have the poorest five-year cancer s...'Europeans and biotechnology' survey of public perception
...formation by government agencies and by commercial insurance is widely seen as unacceptable. Across the 15 EU states there is a North/South divide in the willingness to allow access to genetic information. Greece, Spain and Portugal are more relaxed than Austria, Sweden, Finland, Germany and Denmark. Social...National report containing Stanford research recommends path for future genome study
...sease risk, it also has the potential for abuse by insurance companies or employers. It also gives a glimpse into the future that some people may not want. "Do we really want to know the future?" she asked. "The good thing about having ethical, legal and social implications be a mandatory part of NHGRI researc...Solid management, natural resilience both key to sockeye success
...ve advantages depending on conditions. "We buy insurance for the future by having networks of habitat and not just trying to save the habitat of today's strongest runs," Schindler says. This might necessitate a much finer scale of management than is the current norm, the co-authors say....Testing method may be culprit behind abnormal pap test results
...for HPV. Such tests run from about $50 to $150 and insurance generally covers most of the cost, Nuovo said. He also suggests that a woman ask her doctor which Pap testing method the lab uses. Few gynecologists use conventional Pap testing methods ......m rust to provide future forest managers with more insurance against the damaging disease. Fusiform rust, a fungus that forms spindle-shaped galls on the branches and stems of pine trees, is endemic to the southern U.S., occurring from Maryland to Florida and west to Texas and southern Arkansas. Attacking sev......y, for example in law and justice, in security and insurance it promises - or sometimes threatens - to be of great utility. As a society we must, therefore, ask ourselves important questions as to how genetic information is obtained, stored and used, such that the potentially enormous benefits can be reaped. T...