Physicians miss opportunities to improve care for oldest asthmatics
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... their shots averaged five visits. Vaccination coverage increased with increasing numbers of visits. In fa...ren, the primary reason for inadequate vaccination coverage does not appear to be too few visits, according to another study using NIS data. Of the more t...Novel antibiotic provides rapid relief from symptoms of tonsillitis/pharyngitis, study shows
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...chase of an EBCT machine by any medical center, or coverage of the scans by insurers. They note that new diagnostic technologies have to clear a higher hurdle to be accepted, now that established tests are often based on solid evidence of their accuracy. But they hope their study will give others the data the...Newspaper science editor wins top chemistry reporting award
...ch to recent advances in nanotechnology. His topic coverage is as varied as AIDS, earthquakes, cosmology and biomedical research. Perlman also writes frequently about policy issues involving health care, the environment, nuclear energy and arms control. His lifetime of work and dedication to the field of s...Drinking and drugging can be painful
...a database for 1.5 million people with health care coverage provided by 70 large corporations. Specifically, ...n of people who are employed and receive insurance coverage through their employers," said Linda C. Degutis, assistant professor of surgery and public health at...BU receives Knight Foundation grant
...e and medical journalism center to strengthen news coverage of science, medicine and public health. The center will build on the College of Communication's Graduate Science Journalism Program. The Knight funds, which will be appropriated over three years, will be used to train students and practicing journal...Harvard Medical School new digital library to feature MD Consult full text medical resources
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...Americans are more likely to have lapses in health coverage and to report high levels of family and community ... Phillips emphasized that expansion of insurance coverage will not ease many of the access obstacles that both managed care and non-managed care enrollees fac......on patterns, providing them with prescription drug coverage is one of the biggest challenges currently on the pharmacy landscape," said Barrett Toan, chief executive officer of Express Scripts. "Express Scripts believes there should be a prescription benefit for seniors, either through Medicare or some othe...Media coverage of new drugs is often misleading
...sions. The study's authors obtained stories on the coverage of the three drugs from 36 U.S. newspapers, includ...reviewed, and 180 were included. From television, coverage from nightly network news and a 24-hour news station was included. Ninety television stories were i......budgets, some states say they plan to expand their coverage in coming years. The study looked at current coverage of alternative medicine for young Medicaid recipients ranging from chiropractic care and biofeedback...Employers are primary source of health plan information
...apolis. Since 1997, BHCAG has offered health care coverage through contracts with 15 distinct health-care provider systems in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. "The study results tell us that BHCAG workers rely on their employers for information about health plans," said lead author Roger Feldman, PhD...Elderly heart attack patients fare well with managed care
...nts (56%) compared to patients withfee-for-service coverage (51%). Most of the ambulance use by HMO patientsoccurred at night, suggesting that 24-hour call-in lines or other servicesavailable from HMOs may have improved patients' access to emergencytransportation. The study also found that HMO patients were...Poor health is a major factor for early retirement, according to UCSF researchers
...For boomers who are retiring early, lack of health coverage until age 65 whenthey become eligible for Medicare, is a major concern and a public policy issuethat needs to be addressed at state and national levels," said Dorothy Rice,ScD, professor emeritus, UCSF Institute for Health and Aging and principalinve...One in seven adolescents still doesn't have health insurance
...ly 4.2 million adolescents had no health insurance coverage in 1995,based on data from the National Health Int...vered byprivate insurance; 11.9 percent had public coverage and about two percent had acombination of both. By 1995, public insurance had increased to cover 16....Dartmouth researchers urge caution in communicating results to public
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