American College of Physicians commends introduction of Bipartisan Health CARE Act
...olicies and principles to provide health insurance coverage to all Americans." This, he said, will be done by...ll be given new options to extend health insurance coverage to low-income working Americans, without imposing unfunded mandates on financially strapped state tr...Atypical pathogen treatment vital in hospitalized CAP patients
...he beneficial effect of antibiotics using atypical coverage is more difficult to recognize because the time to clinical stability in this population is not measured and mortality is a very rare outcome," said Dr. Arnold. ...New update of international health system comparisons: US continues to lag on most measures
...not ensure access to health care through universal coverage and promotion of a 'medical home' for patients," said Commonwealth Fund President Karen Davis. "Our failure to ensure health insurance for all and encourage stable, long-term ties between physicians and patients shows in our poor performance on measu...ACP enthusiastically supports introduction of Bipartisan Health CARE Act
...ensus Bureau, 44.8 million Americans lacked health coverage for all of 2005. Without insurance, children and a...e Medicaid coverage, and a new option to guarantee coverage to eligible children under the S-CHIP program without being subject to federal funding caps. States ...Government fails sleepy Judge Dodd
...le defendants seek compensation or continued media coverage results in judges departing the bench." "Clearly judicial sleepiness threatens the integrity of the judicial system and there would seem to be a need to develop preventative or monitoring strategies in judicial systems to prevent it occurring,' he ...New prostate cancer treatment wins operations research award for Sloan-Kettering
...raoperative planning consistently achieved optimal coverage of the prostate with the prescription dose with concomitant low doses delivered to the urethra and rectum. Biochemical control outcomes were excellent at 5 years and late toxicity was unusual. These data demonstrate that real-time planning methods ca...Drug therapy can reduce preterm births and decrease lifetime medical costs
...ally. The potential societal savings from Medicaid coverage of 17P are substantial." Dr. Armstrong continues in the editorial, "As more evidence accumulates about the effectiveness of 17P to prevent preterm birth, the current work of Bailit and colleagues provides valuable information about the magnitude of...Outdated policies are impediment for Americans with disabilities
...regulations too often impede access to health care coverage and assistive devices for many who need them, says...e with disabilities, and they should encourage the coverage of care needed to manage chronic health conditions. Overall, policymakers should increase support f...SCHIP has been successful overall, should be expanded says new health care opinion leaders survey
...ldren (65%). Across the board, leaders feel that coverage should be expanded. In fact, 91% of respondents th...0% believe that states should be allowed to extend coverage to parents of children covered by SCHIP in states where there is no comprehensive coverage for the u...Physicians should be able to review performance rates before release
... to make informed decisions concerning treatments, coverage and the quality of care. The principles, ACP says, should be considered in tandem with other organizational principles on developing measures; sharing, aggregating, and reporting data; and the ethics of physician performance measurement. ACP has ...New health insurance survey -- Women have trouble affording care needed
...Center finds that even women with health insurance coverage are more likely than insured men to go without nee...ctors contribute to this gender gap in health care coverage and access: women are slightly more likely than men to purchase coverage in the individual insurance...Teens get needed access to care with state health insurance
...ged care plans. New York children are eligible for coverage between birth and 18 years of age, if they are at or below 230 percent of the federal poverty level, if they have no other insurance and are not eligible for Medicaid. The program was created to cover the gap between families who qualify for Medicaid...Few surgeons routinely refer breast cancer patients for reconstruction, U-M study finds
...despite a 1998 federal law that mandated insurance coverage of breast reconstruction. "Cost should not be an issue," Alderman says. Surgeons who referred fewer patients to plastic surgery were more likely to identify patient barriers such as inadequate knowledge, cost concerns and availability of plastic su...Health insurance fails to protect Americans from financial risk
... deductibles, co-insurance, and less comprehensive coverage creates significant health access and financial co...wn by instituting high deductibles and scaled-back coverage don't address the underlying problem of rising costs. Instead, these plans shift costs onto consume...Congressional proposals would cover all uninsured, reduce US health spending by up to $61B
...hy Americans Act, which would help people purchase coverage through large regional insurance exchanges. Presid...del, about 20 million people are estimated to gain coverage out of 23.6 million currently uninsured in those 15 states. "The Institute of Medicine estimates t...First ozone and nitrogen dioxide measurements from MetOp-A
...e launched in April 1995, and provides near-global coverage on a daily basis. The instrument measures profiles of atmospheric ozone and the distribution of other trace gases in the atmosphere. The instrument measures profiles of atmospheric ozone and the distribution of other trace gases in the atmosphere tha...UCSF policy expert presents recommendation for health coverage
...," he writes. Lufts plan ensures that everyone has coverage for catastrophic illness or injury and chronic con...approach, combining universal risk pools, mandated coverage with income subsidies, and a restructured payment mechanism has the potential to improve both equity...Emergency Medicaid for immigrants goes to childbirth
...cy-related complications for women who do not have coverage for routine prenatal care or family planning servi...ncy Medicaid essentially functions as catastrophic coverage for a population with very limited access to primary and preventive healthcare," said DuBard, who is...US child health system needs total overhaul, UCLA researchers say
...a. ensuring that all children have health care coverage that is responsive to their unique developmental health needs; that coverage is comprehensive and includes health promotion, as well as disease prevention services; and that cov......es across the country contemplate health insurance coverage expansions and other changes to publicly-funded pr... "Efforts by states to provide health insurance coverage to more people are a huge step in the right direction. However, it is equally important to ensure th...