Threats to hope -- Desperation affects reasoning about product information
... pregnant" Want a bigger house but afraid you cant afford it" A new study by researchers from University of Southern California argues that in situations like these, consumers are susceptible to motivated reasoning. We believe what we want to believe about products that promise to help even if the argument...Bias in statin trials, failure to control malaria, and more
...t. As a developing country, Burkina Faso cannot afford to purchase ACT, so it must rely on support from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. However, Kouyat and colleagues explain that the Global Fund, which has faced financial difficulties, turned down Burkina Fasos request for fina...SCAI'S Hildner Lecture traces progress through 30 years of interventional cardiology
...and participate in it," Dr. Baim said. "No one can afford to be a fly in amber at any point in this evolution."...New health insurance survey -- Women have trouble affording care needed
...nt get the health care they need because they cant afford it. In contrast, 23% of insured and 49% of uninsured men are avoiding care because of cost. Further, 16% of women are underinsured, meaning they have high out-of-pocket costs compared to their income, while only 9% of men are underinsured. "Women a...Carnegie Mellon professors question advice for nuclear attacks
... professor, report that many families simply can't afford the government stocking guidelines; they need help...esearch also suggests that many families who could afford to follow the stocking guidelines might think twice about whether the investment was really worth it...General physicals prompt needed cancer screenings
... cancer screening," Fenton said. "These visits may afford primary care physicians the opportunity to discuss and recommend cancer screening when indicated, and physicians' recommendations have been consistently associated with timely cancer screening."...Preventive health exams may provide opportunities for cancer screening
...ors write. "The preventive health examination may afford primary care physicians the opportunity to discuss and recommend cancer screening when indicated, and physicians' recommendations have been consistently associated with timely cancer screening." Joshua J. Fenton, M.D., M.P.H., University of Califor...Health insurance fails to protect Americans from financial risk
...nsive coverage for groups that could not otherwise afford it. Nancy Warrington from San Diego, California...n the individual market. The only plan they could afford had a deductible of $2500, which increased to $5000 the next year. "The out of pocket expenses drov...MIT brace aids stroke recovery
...he user and appears to be cost-effective. It could afford self-driven therapy for a large patient population." Relearning how to move In 2002 and 2003, Flowers, along with then-students Narendran and McBean, developed a working prototype of the active joint brace. The first prototype system enabled par...Many Americans at high risk of vision loss do not have access to eye care
...chives journals. Of those adults, one in 12 cannot afford eyeglasses when needed, and about one-half do not ...Approximately 5 million high-risk adults could not afford eyeglasses when needed; being female, having low income, not having insurance and having vision or e...Should NICE evaluate complementary medicine?
... Professor David Colquhoun argues that NICE cannot afford to re-examine evidence that has shown little benefit. He points out that NICE already have alternative treatments in several of their reports and, in all these cases, they have found no good evidence for anything more than placebo effects. And it...Sick teens in crisis: Organ transplant patients may die when insurance for medicine runs out
...ey are cut off, Schnitzler says.If families cannot afford medicine, it can mean losing the transplanted organ or even death. Young adults from the ages of 18 to 23 face the greatest risk, as nearly a third of this age group lacks medical coverage. Even when families do have coverage after a transplant, i...Teens may lose transplanted organs when insurance runs out
...of co-payment obligations." If families can not afford medicine, it can mean losing the transplanted organ or even death. "Outcomes for children whose families are uninsured are very poor," says Dr. Schnitzler. Young adults from the ages of 18 to 23 face the greatest risk, as 30 percent of this age group...Many people with MS report financial strain related to health care
...t necessarily ensure that a person will be able to afford care and medications that are so important for treating MS. It also confirms the importance of the ‘safety net' and our ongoing efforts to improve health insurance coverage for people with MS."...Health providers could save billions without compromising health care says drug study
...itorials on the paper. "No healthcare system can afford to countenance the haemorrhaging of public funds on this scale" says Dr Rubin Minhas, a family doctor from Kent, who points out that the UK's National Health Service is facing one of the biggest overspends in its history. "Our predicament is shared...Study finds major variation in Medicare Rx drug costs
..."This has implications for individuals' ability to afford and keep taking their medicines, and for policy as...e for those medicines. "The people who can least afford to pay higher prices were the ones facing those higher prices," Davis comments....Nursing home or hospital: State policy has big impact on elderly
...h higher payment rates, nursing home operators can afford to keep more medical professionals, such as nurse practitioners, on staff," Mor said. "With more staff, and more skilled staff, homes are better able to treat residents on site and theyre better able to practice preventive care to head off problems s...Consumer-driven health plans slow to catch on, 2nd annual survey finds
...t have a savings account, mainly because they cant afford to contribute to it. About one-third of the 1.3 million adults in consumer-driven plans do not receive employer contributions to their accounts, and nearly 1 in 5 does not contribute their own money to the accounts. People with lower incomes who hav...Soot from wood stoves in developing world impacts global warming more than expected
...te this study. In most cases, these families can't afford or don't have access to electricity, gas or alternative fuel sources. "We expected field measurements to be different from lab measurements, and we suspected the amount of black carbon from these stoves would be higher than open burning, but we were...How low should we go? Researchers find no clear evidence for ultra-low cholesterol targets
...o work harder to help people at risk take them and afford them," says Hayward. "We do not have many instances where medicines can save lives and money, but this may be one of those instances."...