At a state Senate hearing today addressing Governor Schwarzenegger’s plan to require all Californians to buy health insurance, administration representatives refused to give a dollar amount for how much health policies would cost under the proposal and rebuffed questions about the need for regulation of insurance premiums to make them affordable for people who would be required to buy coverage.
A new study shows that young transplant patients in the US who lose their insurance coverage are more likely to stop taking necessary anti-rejection drugs, which can increase the risk of losing the transplanted organs. The study appears in the latest issue of Pediatric Transplantation.
Men who have had a vasectomy may face an increased risk of developing a rare type of dementia, Northwestern University researchers discovered.
With newly released figures revealing that the Department of Health’s public hepatitis C awareness campaign is failing, Dame Anita Roddick speaking for the first time on her experience of the disease, has accused the Government of not doing enough.
AstraZeneca has pledged USD$10 million to help fund 50 new American Cancer Society Patient Navigator Program sites over the next five years in communities throughout the United States. The Patient Navigator Program is an initiative to assist individual cancer patients in negotiating the health care system.
Doctors are still denying older people the sorts of tests and treatment they would offer to younger patients, reveals a survey in Quality and Safety in Health Care.
Genetic testing for eye disease is providing vital information about complex retinal diseases, especially when used to confirm a clinician?s diagnosis, according to a newly published study of such tests that were conducted over a five-year period.
A new study published in the February 2007 issue of the American Journal of Medical Genetics reveals that individuals with genetic conditions are twice as likely to report having been denied health insurance than individuals with other chronic illnesses.
Although working very long hours is linked to an increased risk of certain types of health and safety problems for particular groups of industrial employees, other factors?such as previous health problems?have a much stronger effect on overall health, safety, and productivity, suggests a study in the February Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).
With vaccines against the virus that causes most cases of cervical cancer, a disease that kills more than 250,000 women each year, now on the market, the United Nations health agency today stressed the tough decisions countries face before making the vaccine widely available, including cost-effectiveness, delivery and education.