AARP News (blog) | Study: Wiser medication use could cut health costs Boston.com TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — If doctors and patients used prescription drugs more wisely, they could save the U.S. health care system at least $213 billion a year, by reducing medication overuse, underuse and other flaws in care that cause complications and ... How to Cut $200 Billion in Health Care Costs IMS Health Study Identifies $200+ Billion Annual Opportunity from Using ... |
Health-Insurance Exchanges Are Falling Behind Schedule Wall Street Journal Government officials have missed several deadlines in setting up new health-insurance exchanges for small businesses and consumers—a key part of the federal health overhaul—and there is a risk they won't be ready to open on time in October, Congress ... |
AMA Says It's Time To Call Obesity A Disease NPR While the American Medical Association may not have the clout it once did, it's still the largest single group of doctors making waves about health and the practice of medicine. So it's not nothing when the AMA's House of Delegates approves a measure ... AMA says large health insurers are processing claims faster, more accurately ... AMA: Obesity Is A Disease U.S. Doctors' Group Labels Obesity a Disease |
Analysis: Hospital investors sold on US health reform despite bumps Reuters Since the start of the year, shares of the largest publicly traded hospital chain, HCA Holdings Inc, are up 34 percent, while No. 2 Community Health has climbed 71 percent. Tenet Healthcare Corp and Universal Health Services Inc each have risen 50 ... Morning Research: Health Management Associates, HCA Holdings, Tenet ... |
New York Daily News | Kim Kardashian early delivery may have been due to preeclampsia health scare ... New York Daily News Kim Kardashian's delivery room drama may have been due to a health scare rather than a reality show stunt. According to a report on "Good Morning America" Wednesday, Kardashian, 32, had been suffering from preeclampsia during her pregnancy, ... |
Boston Globe | Are slower-growing health care costs temporary or permanent? Washington Post It's one of the hottest debates in health care: Is the historically slow growth in health spending in recent years due to the lingering effects of the recession, or is it a fundamental change that augurs well for the future? The implications are huge ... Growth of health care costs slows as national law takes effect Fewer Young Americans Lack Health Care Coverage Young Adults Want Health Insurance, Don't Feel 'Invincible,' New Obamacare ... |
Digital Health Meets Moneyball: Biomarkers And The 'Quantified Athlete' Forbes Most of us have heard about the quantified self–the personification of the digital health revolution. The quantification of life seems an inevitable manifestation of this movement. These 'data expressions of life' can't be far off. And I can imagine a ... |
New study tracks emotional health of 'surrogate kids' Today.com (blog) Over the past decade the number of births involving surrogacy with donor eggs and sperm has surged. What, experts wondered, does this mean for the mental and emotional health of the growing number of kids who may or may not know the truth about their ... |
Long-term health effects of chewing nicotine gum Fox News According to the American Lung Association, people should not chew more than 24 pieces of nicotine gum a day and they shouldn't use it for more than three months. Long-term use of nicotine gum has been linked with certain health problems like: Hair ... |
“Retail” health advice: a new wellness effort Kansas City Star Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City said Wednesday that it is opening “Live Blue” storefront health-education locations in the Zona Rosa shopping center and in Prairie Village. Cerner Corp. said Tuesday that it is launching the “Primary Health ... Blue Cross to launch new health plan for colleges |
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