Headlines – Page 728 – Healthy Skeptic

Sep 21 2010

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The number of primary-care physicians who offer same-day “open access” scheduling has grown to 62 percent, according to the American Academy of Family Practitioners, a substantial increase over the 29 percent who offered it in 2008

Sep 21 2010

Fiscal Times

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Like other watchdog regulatory agencies, the FDA operates with fees collected from the very companies it is mandated to scrutinize. It’s the old adage of the fox guarding the hen house.

Sep 21 2010

New York Times

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Republicans are serious. Hopeful of picking up substantial numbers of seats in the Congressional elections, they are developing plans to try to repeal or roll back new health care law.

Sep 21 2010

New Republic

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Health care reform is an automatic anti-recession measure, because, during downturns, government ends up enrolling more people in Medicaid and providing more people with subsidies to pay for private insurance. Those are two effective forms of stimulus.

Sep 21 2010

Washington Post

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Being dramatically overweight isn’t just unhealthy and socially inhibiting: It’s expensive – a study coming estimates the overall cost of obesity at $8,365 a year for obese women and $6,518 a year for obese men

Sep 21 2010

Washington Post

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Medical evidence drives coverage decisions and data about what works for obesity is definitely an evolving area

Sep 21 2010

New York Times

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Promotion of the less accurate method of calculating heart attack risk expanded the market share of patients who are eligible for cholesterol-lowering statin drugs.

Sep 21 2010

informationweek.com

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Users of Google’s online health data service want more than a place to stash their health data – they want tools to help them take steps to improve their health

Sep 21 2010

Reuters

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The worldwide costs of dementia will reach $604 billion in 2010, more than one percent of global GDP output, and those costs will soar as the number of sufferers triples by 2050

Sep 20 2010

GlobeNewswire

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Covisint, a Compuware company, today announced that it has acquired DocSite, an award-winning clinical decision support and quality performance management company