N.C. Health Choice program boosting access to dental care for poor children, study shows
...alled N.C. Health Choice, has expanded health-care coverage to millions of children who come from working fami... dental care for poor children. "Providing health coverage under SCHIP is not mandatory," Mofidi said. "We hope our findings encourage policy-makers to continu...First quarter 2002 prescription drug spending: Higher again, but rate of increase drops
...g continuing to go up, Americans with prescription coverage expect to pay more of a skyrocketing cost largely ...ices. Because of the unique demographics and drug coverage for Medicaid recipients and for Medicare beneficiaries receiving drug coverage through Medicare Plus...Research presentations at scientific meetings often receive unwarranted media coverage
HANOVER, NH Press coverage of scientific meetings may be characterized as "to...iminary findings of still uncertain validity. This coverage is concerning since a substantial number of the studies remain unpublished, precluding evaluation in...The Lancet Infectious Diseases (TLID)
This month's issue gives extensive coverage to tuberculosis ahead of the World TB Congress taking place in Washington D.C. from June 3-5. News desk - Findings from the WHO's 6th annual report on global TB control-This report states that around 70% of TB cases still remain undetected and that ...Surprising findings on Medicaid kids and the ER
...tire year. The other 40 percent had some months of coverage under the traditional fee-for-service Medicaid str...cent more often than children who had managed-care coverage the entire year," he explains. "Even those enrolled in fee-for-service for only part of 2000 came to......erience or training are sometimes asked to provide coverage for health departments on a part-time basis simply because no other options exist. Boulton understands this problem from both the academic and practical sides---he is a clinical associate professor of epidemiology, and he serves as chief epidemiolog...Successful measles vaccination feasible in low-income countries
...14 years were vaccinated, with overall vaccination coverage of 91%. Illness and deaths were substantially redu...ion, and where initial routine measles vaccination coverage among infants was less than 90%, even when prevalance of HIV/AIDS was extremely high. Continued high...ACP-ASIM releases plan to eliminate uninsured by 2009
...ramework of a step-by-step plan to make affordable coverage available to all Americans. The Colleges plan call...n establishing the goal of making health insurance coverage available to all citizens within seven years. Our plan prioritizes the neediest people for the qui...Patients needlessly suffering from chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting
... 2, 3 It is generally accepted that full 24 hour coverage from nausea and vomiting is required from anti-emetic treatment strategies if disruption to a patients quality of life is to be minimized. Commenting on the results of the survey, Giel Vaessen, President, EONS, said," The survey has clearly demonstra...Screening the controversy continues
...regions had started their own programmes, although coverage varies from between 25 and 50% in Catalua to 100% in the majority of regional programmes. In 1999 the most recent year for which we have data nearly 2.36 million women had access to screening and that was a 14% increase over the previous year. Our...Examining the effects of managed care on alcohol and other drug treatment
...ence-based clinical practices. Indemnity insurance coverage was the prevalent form of health care in the United States 25 years ago. Today more than half of all Americans with health insurance are enrolled in some kind of managed care plan. The predominant forms of MCOs are health maintenance organizations ...Mecca pilgrims a priority for meningococcal vaccination
...accine were not available until January, 2001, and coverage among pilgrims to the Hajj 2001 was low (below 47%). The casefatality ratio was high (20%), and sustained transmission of the virulent outbreak strain was seen. Mary Ramsay of the PHLS comments: This outbreak is characterised by a high case-fatality...Childhood stroke deaths drop, but still higher among blacks
...ring the impact of socioeconomic status, insurance coverage or lack thereof, and geographic factors, such as urban and rural residence on childhood stroke deaths....... changes in eligibility rules and health insurance coverage policies are needed to provide a system geared to ...r. Anderson. Dr. Anderson adds that long-term care coverage is often based on financial needs. Ironically, the most complete long-term care and services are oft...... worried about their ability to afford health care coverage and 19 percent fear they could lose their benefits altogether. Even as women focus on personal daily concerns, they want to know that their local communities are prepared for future attacks. In the event of a bio-terrorist attack, 45 percent of wo...SNM and ACNP CMS PET reimbursement statement
... subcommittee is tasked with working to extend PET coverage to new indications and improving the overall reimbursement for PET procedures. The subcommittee is examining the impact of the new FDG reimbursement rate on the nuclear medicine community....Pain, price, insurance delays for new vaccines concern kids' doctors
...heir children vaccinated, as advertising and media coverage touted the shot's effectiveness. Within months, supplies of the vaccine had become scarce. But some doctors who care for children - including those who recommend the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, known as Prevnar - are expressing concerns that the ...Rx for drug dilemmas: Tailor the copayment to the patient
...ecent years, most Americans with prescription drug coverage in their health insurance have gotten used to shel...ent is now figuring out how to afford prescription coverage for Medicare participants. All of this means the time is right, says a team of University of Michiga...Uninsured, medicaid patients more likely to die from heart attack
...s after a heart attack vary according to insurance coverage and were lowest for patients with private insurance, says study author Jay J. Shen, Ph.D., of Governors State University in University Park, Illinois "In general, Medicaid and uninsured [heart attack] patients were about 20 percent and ......fers a variety of insurance plans and prescription coverage options to its employees. The data, collected between 1996 and 1998, represent the prescription costs for 44,228 hourly and 75,433 salaried employees nationwide. Though the data are not representative of the country as a whole, the study offers a uni...