Insurance status affects ability to secure necessary, timely follow-up medical appointments
... urgent medical condition than those with Medicaid coverage or without insurance, according to an article in t... appointments than those claiming to have Medicaid coverage (63.6 percent vs. 34.2 percent). Those claiming to have private insurance also had higher appointmen...Television viewing of Katrina will have psychological effects on children around the country
...ents is to protect our kids from unnecessary media coverage of this event. Good parents will stop the television." The NYU Child Study Center recommends that parents limit television viewing of the disaster for children under 12 years of age, and eliminate all viewing when possible. For teenagers ages 12-17...Immigrants spend half as much on health care as native-born Americans
...re born in the U.S.-even immigrants with insurance coverage used 52 percent less health care than insured non-immigrants. Immigrant children received far less care in doctors' offices (71 percent less than non-immigrant children) and received 72 percent less prescription medications. However, their emergency...Patient reminders boost immunization rates
...he Medicaid program in North Carolina. Vaccination coverage is improving in the United States, but the challenge is to maintain and continue to build on the gains made in the 1990s, according to the Centers for Disease Control. For instance, the National Immunization Survey shows that 84.8 percent of children...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for July 19, 2005
...oney and improve health outcomes by providing full coverage of ACE inhibitors for people with diabetes, a new ...are three scenarios: current practice (no Medicare coverage of medications), coverage under the new Medicare drug benefit to be implemented in 2006 (shared cost...Breast-conserving surgery underused in Asian American and Pacific Island women
...ar source of health care, lower rates of insurance coverage and cultural factors such as low English proficiency and lack of acculturation, Goel said. Previous studies have found that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who are foreign-born are less likely to receive cancer screening and hospice care than ...Hepatitis A in US drops substantially after implementation of vaccination program
... to vaccination. In addition, more data on vaccine coverage levels are needed to better describe the relations...incidence can be achieved by improving vaccination coverage in groups for which it is currently recommended, including children living in the historically highe...The rich die differently from you and me, U-M study shows
...hen personal resources are limited, elders without coverage for prescription medications, including those on Medicare, may choose to sacrifice comfort in order to prolong their life or maintain their ability to function, the authors speculate, Silveira said. "Elders with greater financial resources may expres...Steiner symposium brings together leading diabetes experts
...teiner Closing Remarks Co-Presenters Note: Media coverage of the conference is welcomed. For more information, contact John Easton, 773-702-6241 or john.easton@uchospitals.edu or consult the conference web site http://donaldsteinerfest.com/...Weight-loss surgery produces unexpected drop in heart disease risk, Stanford researchers find
...e findings will push insurance companies that deny coverage for the procedure to change their policies. More than 15 million people in the United States are morbidly obese, as measured by body mass index, which is a person's weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared. A BMI over 40 qualifies as m...FDA approves new indication for Topamax as initial monotherapy for adults and children with epilepsy
...spital. "A treatment like TOPAMAX, which provides coverage for both partial-onset and primarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures, offers doctors an option in situations where differentiating between these seizure types is difficult." Epilepsy is characterized by seizures, which are abnormal electrical disc...What don't we know? Science presents the great unsolved scientific mysteries of our time
...nkers. Over time, the prominence of the journal's coverage of science and science policy has increased, according to Science's news editor, Colin Norman. "The worlds of research and policy have become thoroughly intertwined, and when we report on scientific developments, the distinction between the two is ...Sunshine mapping from space means brighter solar energy future
...ding, expensive on an ongoing basis and limited in coverage there are only around 200 solar-energy-measuring stations to cover all of Europe and Africa in the official networks affiliated to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). Measuring from above using satellites provides a wide-area, objective an...Once in the doctor's office, racial and ethnic disparities in care nearly disappear: Stanford study
...aterials or they might not have adequate insurance coverage to begin with, Ma said. To better understand the p...e? Second, why do patients with adequate insurance coverage not seek treatment when it is needed? Third, why do patients sometimes fail to return for proper fol...$5.1 billion would save 6 million children
...ailable to all children who needed them. Universal coverage levels from 2000 for drugs and other materials, delivery of treatment, program management and support were calculated to obtain the average cost to save a child's life. The cost of some of the interventions, such as vaccines to prevent infection with...Saving six million children each year is affordable
...ost of delivering these interventions at universal coverage by calculating the sum of unit costs for drugs and materials, delivery costs, and programme management and support cost, including supervision. They found an additional US$5.1 billion in new resources is needed annually. Although the figure does not ...Assuring the supply of vaccines
...rmonization, promotion of 'first dollar' insurance coverage for immunizations, and the assurance of adequate r... in advance of their development, and that vaccine coverage decisions include societal benefits and costs, including consideration of the impact of the price of...Street-level London air pollution warnings coming via mobile phones
...monitoring stations around the city. Because their coverage is limited they don't help with generating forecasts, but serve as a key way of validating our results, which so far have been around 90% accurate. For the next stage of the project we aim to improve the accuracy further by integrating other data sou...GroPep news: Key psoriasis patent granted in Japan and new asthma patent filed for GroPep drug
...n the USA and Europe, the Japanese grant completes coverage of the most valuable potential markets. Exclusive, worldwide rights to the patent were obtained by GroPep in 2002 through a licence from the Northern Sydney and Central Coast Area Health Service (NSCCH). The patent (Japanese Patent No. 3,665,342 - ......he researchers found that lack of health insurance coverage was the strongest predictor of cancer screening underutilization. They suggest that if access to care for foreign-born Latinas was improved, they would use cancer screening services appropriately. Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening: Impact of hea...