Lancet readers to join WHO election debate
...his week's issue heralds the start of THE LANCET's coverage of the build-up to the election of a new Director-...ack into the international spotlight. The Lancet's coverage of the electoral campaign begins with a Special Report on the organisational structure and history o...Survey: Medicare gets higher marks from enrollees than private insurance
...nces and ratings of their care indicate that their coverage is working relatively well in providing choice of ...us, attempts to reform Medicare that would pattern coverage on private employer coverage run the risk of undermining the confidence of the people it is designed...Disabled seniors formerly on SSDI hit hardest by drug costs
...n insurer who can cover their drug costs. Private coverage isn't currently available at a price they can affo... disabled aged are less likely to receive employer coverage and more likely to rely on Medicaid and other public sources of support than other Medicare benefici...D.C. surveillance system considered a model for early disease detection
...h. Subsequent to the events of September 11, 2001, coverage by the system was expanded to over 300 military treatment facilities around the world. Tests of the preparedness of U.S. public health systems have shown they are often inadequately prepared for deliberate attacks with outbreak-causing diseases, say ...Media focus on endostatin helped -- not hurt --
HOUSTON -- Widespread media coverage of an untested but promising cancer therapy attrac...itute. "Contrary to our expectations, the media coverage was helpful because the patients it brought in appeared to be better informed than those who came in...Benefit of public defibrillators is marginal
...and and Wales. Additional resources for wide scale coverage of public access defibrillators are probably not justified by the marginal improvement in survival, they conclude....More than 70 percent of adults with cancer use alternative therapies
...in Washington are required by state law to provide coverage for licensed alternative providers. As such, the r... cancer patients in other states with less liberal coverage of alternative-health services. "Regardless of incidence of alternative-medicine use in Washington, ...Making individual health insurance market work
...pulation, since it is the main source of insurance coverage for nonpoor working families whose employers don't...y are likely to get sick from buying more generous coverage at the guaranteed renewable rate. Community rating, on the other hand, has a history of driving up c...Physical, mental health illnesses hinder low-income families' economic security
...sion of TANF eligibility, Burton notes. Insurance coverage was uneven across the non-disability families with...caid is working for many people, there are gaps in coverage and access to services, the researchers say. Complicating factors affecting private and public insur...Cost, availability of insurance and drugs top health care worries
... 2002 survey, ahead of inadequate health insurance coverage (16 percent) and cost of drugs (9 percent). All of...Medicare (23 percent), inadequate health insurance coverage (22 percent), and drug costs (14 percent). Health care costs are a rising concern, however. In Blend...Mayo Clinic vaccine researcher calls for universal flu vaccine for elderly
... standard of care, progress in improving influenza coverage rates has been unacceptably slow at best, taking decades to achieve coverage rates of 60 percent." Dr. Poland compares the health-care community's slowness to promote the influe...Time-release stimulant effective for once-daily treatment of ADHD
...ymptom control persists into the evening, allowing coverage of homework and other after-school activities. "By making ADHD treatment easier, less cumbersome and more private, long-acting stimulants can help improve patient compliance, resulting in better symptom control and an improved overall outcome for pa...Investigational mesh 'jackets' studied as an experimental therapy for heart failure
...ing. He recommended surgical repair, but financial coverage was denied by her insurance plan, and when Evelyn went home to her regular physicians, they said Evelyn was too weak to undergo surgery. Unwilling to sit quietly, take her pills and give up, Evelyn opted out of her healthcare contract and re-enrolled...Market potential exists for superconductivity in medical, energy, transportation sectors
...nications Superconductors could improve capacity, coverage and quality of service for personal communications devices, such as hand held communicators to generate and read e-mail. In March 2002, representatives of approximately 35 industrial organizations and research laboratories in Europe, Japan, and the ...Conjoined twins celebrate first birthday at UCLA's Mattel Children's Hospital
... the skin has stretched enough to provide adequate coverage once the twins are separated. The second balloon implant -- where the thin skin tore during the procedure -- was never used. Doctors also have been studying three-dimensional physical models that replicate the twins' heads' blood vessels, juncture an...Panel calls for greater attention to cancer patients' pain, depression, and fatigue
... experience that must be tolerated; and inadequate coverage and reimbursement for some treatments. The panel pointed out the additional difficulty presented by the interactions among these three symptoms for example, a successful treatment for depression might also alleviate fatigue, but conversely, adequate...Medicare+Choice bills may stop exodus of plans, but are not likely to expand enrollment in HMOs
...e, more than 30 percent would end up with Medicare coverage only, raising the number of beneficiaries with no coverage for drugs and other supplemental services to 6.5 million from 5 million. The authors analyze M+C pa...Strongest medical evidence seldom considered newsworthy
...rland examined two stages on the path to newspaper coverage selection by medical journal editors of studies for press releases and selection of newsworthy articles by journalists. They identified all original research articles published in the Lancet and BMJ during 1999 and 2000, then assessed the characteri...Kytril more effective in controlling chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting
...motherapy. Factors such as providing true 24-hour coverage from nausea and vomiting, as well as selecting an agent with minimal risk of drug interactions are important considerations. Selecting a less effective treatment results not only in the additional costs for the rescue treatment, but in unnecessary s...Dartmouth/VA researchers examine news coverage of breast cancer prevention
...major television to look at the two weeks of media coverage following three events: National Institutes of Hea...observed in the trial. While the difference in the coverage of these distinct approaches to breast cancer prevention may not be surprising, the authors raise tw...