End AIDS drug waiting lists, HIV care providers tell policymakers
...mulary of essential drugs for people with HIV with incomes below 300 percent of the federal poverty level. The two organizations additionally recommend expansion of the AIDS Education and Training Center program to help train the next generation of HIV medical providers. Access to medical providers with ap...Studies address issues of risk and survival in rapidly increasing GI cancers
...rweight patients. Patients with moderate to high incomes (= $15,000 per year) had an up to 38 percent lower risk of death compared to low-income patients (<$15,000 per year). Women survived longer than men. "Unfortunately, some of the characteristics associated with survival in this study are not ea...A safer route to school makes children more likely to walk and bike, study shows
...ase physical activity among Americans of all ages, incomes and ethnic backgrounds....Risk and intimate relationships: Can hope triumph over experience in an age of 'messy' lives?
...hip has changed. "We are now in a world where two incomes are usually necessary to meet household expenditure - particularly in the UK with mortgage payments. As a result, a traditional marriage, in which the man goes out to work and the woman stays at home, may be put under as much strain as one where both...'Sobering' disparity: African-Americans receive less compensation for job-related back injuries
...status - who were less educated and earned smaller incomes - received less costly medical care and smaller financial settlements for their injuries than those who were more educated and had higher incomes. However the differences were not so pronounced as those between African-Americans and Caucasians, added...Some hospitals face financial upheaval under new NHS payment system
Some hospitals will face sizeable changes to their incomes under a new NHS payment system, say researchers at Dr Foster in this week's BMJ. The "payment by results" system is essentially a way of paying health care providers a fixed price for each individual case treated. Under the new system, providers are ...News briefs from the journal Chest, October 2004
... 72% were minorities, 50% lived in areas of median incomes less than $35,000, and 66% had publicly funded health insurance or no health insurance. The study also showed that the in-hospital morality rate for TB patients was 4.9%, which is double the 2.4% in-hospital mortality rate of all other hospital adm...One in 6 chronically ill adults skip Rx drugs due to cost
...sts are more than $100 a month, and those with low incomes or no prescription drug coverage, are at the great...-of-pocket payments for drugs: Respondents who had incomes under $20,000 a year were more than twice as likely to be without drug coverage than those making mo...Many who cut back on Rx drugs to cut costs don't tell doctors
... 50, but tended to be less educated and have lower incomes than average. Those patients who didn't bring up the uncomfortable issue of cost weren't likely to get asked, either, the study shows. Two-thirds of those who had never talked with their doctors about their prescription cost problems said no o...Women who early in life care for elderly parents are at higher risk of poverty later
...ermanently blind and totally disabled whose annual incomes are well below the federal poverty line. Donato and Wakabayashi compared the demographics of the caregivers and non-caregivers. Caregivers were more likely than non-caregivers to have less than a high school education (34 vs. 22 percent in the first...Study: Too few doctors ask teens about smoking
...ted that individuals with less education and lower incomes are more likely to start smoking and less likely to quit. "We chose Medicaid recipients because, given the disproportionate burden of illness caused by tobacco use found in lower income groups, we believed it was important to know what in...Beneficiaries with chronic conditions still face high costs under new Medicare drug law
... for beneficiaries. The lack of aid for those with incomes just over the limit for low-income assistance will... benefit provisions are substantial for those with incomes under 150% of poverty, but anyone with an income slightly above that will face out-of-pocket costs t...People with low incomes more likely to develop brain tumors
ST. PAUL, Minn. People with low incomes are more likely to develop brain cancer, according...st among younger people. Men under age 44 with low incomes were at least four times more likely to develop brain cancer than those not classified as having low...Poor kids' health insurance situation changes often, affecting their medical care, study finds
...cteristics. More than a third of the families had incomes that fell below twice the poverty level, the group most likely to be eligible for public insurance programs. The survey sample was weighted so that results could be extrapolated to the entire U.S. population. "If the trends we see were true in 1999, ...Spanking a risk factor for behavior problems among white children
...uently were more likely to be depressed, had lower incomes and were less educated. The same factors were not associated with African-American or Hispanic mothers who spanked their children more frequently. For the study, the researchers followed an ethnically diverse group of 1,966 children and their mothers...Dental disease hits hardest among older blacks
...on, a new study finds. Black people with household incomes exceeding $20,000 a year were more likely than bot...ontitis was more prevalent among people with lower incomes and low levels of education. Borrell and colleagues say the equation is more complicated. "Our study...Diabetes patients skip medications to save money
...over 100 percent of drug costs for people with low incomes or service-connected disabilities. Other VA patients pay $7 co-pays for 30-day supplies of prescription medications, with no cap on total costs or number of prescriptions. Costs above $840 in a year are waived. Although many Medicaid and uninsured p...ACPM recommends reproductive health care benefits for adolescents
...nsured children and adolescents from families with incomes above state-set income eligibility ceilings for Medicaid, but at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level. According to Dr. Robert Harmon, President of ACPM, "Prevention and primary care services are essential for adolescents since the most ...Family's income, education affect depression and obesity in teens
... can be attributed to being from families with low incomes or having parents with low educational levels, according to a new analysis of more than 15,000 young people. "Socioeconomic status accounts for a large proportion of the disease burden within the whole population," say researchers Elizabeth Goodman, ...Hispanics face high rates of unstable health care coverage, low rates of preventive care
...two-thirds (65%) of working-age Hispanics with low incomes were uninsured for all or part of the year in 2000, according to a new analysis by The Commonwealth Fund. Uninsured Hispanics have low rates of some preventive health services: just 39% of uninsured Hispanic adults with diabetes had annual foot exams...