Wake Forest professor to evaluate managed care patient protection laws
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...in five older people even those with good health insurance misuse their asthma drugs, and doctors fail an ev... some of the largest U.S. companies and had health insurance coverage through managed care....Human brain has unsuspected oxygen reserve, challenging previous theories
.... The brain appears to have some sort of built-in insurance policy, explains Mintun. Even when partially deprived of oxygen, it can still take care of itself. Armed with this new information, the team retested current mathematical models of cerebral blood flow. The models assume that, because the brain requir...UCSF begins clinical trials for new bionic ear for profoundly deaf adults
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A new study finds that patients with public health insurance are more likely to die from a heart attack than...ily available to heart patients who don't have the insurance to pay for them. Death rates after a heart attack vary according to insurance coverage and wer...Rx for drug dilemmas: Tailor the copayment to the patient
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...esearch, says efforts to help small firms pay for insurance wont be effective until the workers themselves dem...ed reforms to help small businesses pay for health insurance for their employees. But results of the study show that even a hefty cut in premiums would result i...Drug regimen adherence key in keeping babies virus-free, study suggests
... spent negotiating with their health insurance company. Among palivizumab recipients, 36 children (17 percent) were hospitalized with a lower respiratory tract infection during the RSV season. Eleven of these children had not complied w...Pain, price, insurance delays for new vaccines concern kids' doctors
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...ay Wynia and colleagues. Risk selection undermines insurance pools by causing disproportionate enrollment of le... it may be an inherent feature of combining health insurance financing and health care delivery functions, the authors say.......oor health, but also by factors such as the social insurance system, the work environment, attitudes, commitment to work, and other medical, social and psychological factors." Finally, he said, "neither long, continuous periods of sickness absence nor absences on Mondays or Fridays were associated with positiv...