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... 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. PST), will address health insurance coverage issues in the United States, and will feature the Honorable John Kitzhaber, M.D., former governor of Oregon. The discussion will address the increasing number of uninsured, a national problem affecting practicing physicians and their patien...Why results from genetic tests should be available to medical insurance companies
...ing genetic test results and disclosure to medical insurance companies-the authors outline their reasons for su...the disclosure of such test results to make health insurance more equitable. Nick Raithatha and Richard D. Smith from the University of East anglia, UK, discus...Unlocking the genetics and evolution of the dog could prove beneficial for humans
...r genetic information used against them for health insurance reasons, "breeders don't want people to know that their dogs have diseases," Lark explained....National ocean commissioners & scientists call for overhaul of ocean policies & management
... seas marine reserves as experimental controls and insurance against our ignorance and failures. Ecosystem-based management offers muchneeded hope."...Passwords to guard entry aren't enough to protect complex data
...he hospital's accounting database. Conversely, an insurance company can access financial records but not patient medical records. Patients, in contrast, can request access to both types of data. A database administrator in a traditional system defines different roles for different users, and those roles defi...Teens and young adults the new frontier in cancer says US cancer specialist
...nsured. Nearly half lose their parents' healthcare insurance and don't acquire adequate cover afterwards. This age group lacked a usual source of care. Without a primary physician who knows the patient's health symptoms could be missed. "The transition from adequate paediatric to adult healthcare is filled ...As obesity skyrockets, Joslin Diabetes Center urges action to stem the tide of type 2 diabetes
...rter of the cookie. And the health care and health insurance industries must not only increase study of the fundamental mechanisms of obesity and diabetes, but also the focus on public education," he said. "These efforts will also go a long way to curbing the increasing incidence of obesity in childr...Colorectal cancer rates in African Americans equal with insurance parity
...Center and Meharry Medical College found that when insurance coverage is equal, racial differences in deaths du...s that everybody in the study has exactly the same insurance status." The researchers reviewed the medical records of 949 elderly patients diagnosed with colon...Research bank makes good use of umbilical cords
...collection and storage are billed to the patient's insurance carrier; if an insurance company denies payment, CHORI has a grant that helps defray these costs. Parents without an immediat...Mite transmits viruses damaging to wheat
...n specialists, county agents, crop consultants and insurance agents have reported some wheat fields were all but dead," said Rush. Diagnosis can be tricky, he added, since one or more viruses might be present. Wheat streak mosaic can occur any place wheat grows. Mark Harrison, independent crop consultant...Pharmacogenomics could replace 'trial-and-error' with science from the human genome
... record, as long as it is not clear whether health insurance companies might discriminate against patients at high genetic risk for adverse health events." The authors also warn that it is difficult to conduct clinical trials that prove that individualized drug therapy based on genetics actually improves outc...North Shore-LIJ research collaboration with Correlogic Systems to advance ovarian cancer blood test
...his technology and calling for federal and private insurance coverage of ovarian cancer tests based on the technology. The resolution was approved in the House in July 2002. "I'm pleased to have played an instrumental role in forming this partnership," noted Rep. Israel. "After final validation, these new tec...Confidentiality of genetic databases questioned by Stanford researchers
...mation about the subject. Why worry? Lin said that insurance companies and employers potentially have an interest in learning whether a person is prone to certain illnesses, and that malevolent individuals might also try to seek out this type of information. So Lin, along with advisor Russ Altman, MD, PhD, ass...New diagnostic technology helps justify earlier cataract surgery
...that cataract patients experience. This will give insurance companies a reliable and widely accepted means of ...he U.S., Medicare, the federal government's health insurance program for the elderly, paid for 1.733 million procedures in 2002, according to the most recent dat...New survey reveals insights into unique relationship between mothers and pediatricians
...ation for moms (74 percent), second only to health insurance coverage (82 percent). In addition, more than half (51 percent) of mothers surveyed rated a doctor's compatibility with their own parenting objectives and philosophy of care as an important factor in choosing a physician for their baby. On average, ...Pneumococcal vaccine reduces ear infections, pneumonia, new study shows
...essee's Medicaid records and from three commercial insurance companies in upstate New York. They found that after routine vaccination with the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine began children in Tennessee younger than 2 years old had 7 percent fewer cases of otitis media in Tennessee; 20 percent of these children...