Children's asthma care improves on state health insurance program
...ansions, and had several options for how to expand coverage for children using those dollars. New York received approval to use the Child Health Plus, which was created in New York in 1991. More than 6 million children are affected by asthma every year in the U.S. Low income and minority children have high...Bank of America grant to expand community-based childhood immunization program in northern Manhattan
...ce the Start Right Coalition's latest immunization coverage rates. The Bank of America Charitable Foundation grant will enable the scale up of the existing Start Right program, linking the Coalition members in a coordinated network to reach and vaccinate all 6,000 children born annually in Northern Manhatta...Nearly half of people who need cholesterol treatment don't get it
...cks and Hispanics also have lower health insurance coverage rates and poorer access to care. "Our study showed that more research and quality improvement programs are needed to optimize management of cholesterol disorders," Goff said....ACP proposes solutions for America's health care system
...n third party financing, reimbursement, coding and coverage policies to support practices that qualify as advanced medical homes. It also recommends that changes be made in workforce and training policies to assure an adequate supply of physicians who are trained to deliver care consistent with the advanced ...Test identifies best candidates for implanted cardiac defibrillator, screens out those not helped
...ions may increase. The test does not have national coverage by Medicare intermediaries, but the Centers for Me...Medicaid Services (CMS) is currently reviewing its coverage policy for the MTWA test and is expected to make a decision on coverage in March....Medicaid matters to children: How Medicaid can help drive quality improvement in pediatrics
... government giving states more authority, Medicaid coverage is moving "toward a premium support model with limited benefits and substantial down streaming of financial risk." Vice President of the Public Policy for the National Association of Children's Hospitals Peters Wilson said that the conference accompl...Most behaviors preceding major causes of preventable death have begun by young adulthood
... researchers added that the decline in health care coverage resulted from young adults leaving their parents' health insurance or Medicaid coverage as they reached legal age. On the positive side, participants were less likely to experience feeling...Tercica launches Increlex in the US
...sist patients in gaining appropriate reimbursement coverage for Increlex. TerciCare also serves as the portal to Tercica's Patient Assistance Program, which will support access to Increlex for patients who do not have adequate medical coverage. Tercica estimates that approximately 6,000 children in the U.S.,...Employers missing out on best financial benefits of preventive care
...ris said. Still, the report suggests that employer coverage of preventive services "is reasonably good," he ad...es recently published a study showing low rates of coverage for tobacco cessation programs among state government employers. The researchers found no single exp...Medicare drug benefit could do harm to poor, elderly, and disabled
... especially challenging to reach and educate about coverage changes," Soumerai writes. He suggests that the transition period should be extended to at least one year, creating a longer "crossover" period where beneficiaries can continue to obtain medication through Medicaid. Additionally, a potential long-ter...Blacks' lower rate of lung cancer surgery not just due to access to care issues
...2001. With Medicare, inequalities due to insurance coverage were eliminated. Of these patients, 14,224 had undergone invasive procedures to "stage" the disease by its extent, which is a guide to treatment decisions. The procedures included bronchoscopy, the insertion of a viewing tube into the lungs, and medi...Researchers investigate the case of the disappearing teaspoons
...st employees (73%) were dissatisfied with teaspoon coverage in the institute, suggesting that teaspoons are an essential part of office life. The rapid rate of teaspoon loss shows that their availability (and therefore office life) is under constant assault. One possible explanation for the phenomenon is resi...Benefits of flu vaccine substantially overestimated says study
...relatively inaccessible; no improvement in vaccine coverage has occurred since 1997. School children could be accessible through school-based vaccine clinics allowing rapid administration of vaccine to large numbers, representing all socioeconomic groups, within a short period of time."...MSG-2 in position for tonight's launch
... satellites will provide continuous meteorological coverage until 2018. Since the launch of the first MSG satellite in 2002, meteorological images have been delivered every 15 minutes (instead of 30 with the first-generation Meteosat satellites) on 12 spectral channels (instead of 3) and provide vital data fo...New Israeli study finds vaccinating all toddlers against hepatitis A
...ed States can be achieved by improving vaccination coverage in groups for which it is currently recommended. Similar to the Israeli study, Wasley et al found that a decline in hepatitis A infection rates in children occurred with the mandated vaccination of one age group and helped reduce transmission in oth...GroPep to pursue promising asthma drug following preclinical study results
...wing at over 10%. GroPep has international patent coverage for the T-cell peptide technology. Listed biopharmaceutical company GroPep Limited (ASX: GRO) announced today that it had completed testing of its T-cell peptide drug candidate in preclinical models of asthma and psoriasis. The results showed that th...Percentage of North Carolinians lacking health insurance rises, UNC study shows
...Wake and Tyrrell, counties at opposite ends of the coverage spectrum included Mecklenburg with 14.8 percent un...n the uninsured, identify policy options to expand coverage and develop cost estimates for those options....Medical College of Wisconsin study
...ach and enrollment programs in obtaining insurance coverage for uninsured Latino children, according to a study authored by a physician at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. The study appears in the December issue of Pediatrics, the world's leading pediatric j...As Montreal Conference considers deforestation issues, ESA presents space solution
...of the Environment, explained that Kyoto Inventory coverage of his country ranged across five regions of very different topography across the country, Abruzzo, Calabria, Lombardy, Molise and Toscana. The satellite products agreed well with processed aerial photographs. In the case of Abruzzo the product accu...... move into the wound area. "About one-third of the coverage of the wound came from the stem cells in the hair follicle," says Cotsarelis. "In the future, we think that we will be able to design treatments that enhance the flow of cells from the hair follicle to the epidermis in the hope of enhancing wound hea...