Feds: Standardizing Electronic Health Payments Could Save $4.5 Billion
Here’s a twist. You know how you keep hearing that the Affordable Care Act is doing little more than raising health care costs? Well, the Obama administration says a new rule it’s issuing under the law could result in a savings of as much as $4.5 billion over the next decade. The proposed rule sets [...]
State Impact: No More State Help for Those with Teeth Trouble
There’s no more funding for Dentists for the Disabled and Elderly in Need of Treatment, and some wonder where those in need will get care.
Feds To Rein In Use Of Some Antibiotics On Animals
The Food and Drug Administration is moving to stop the use of some antibiotics on animals. The agency wants to prevent overuse of these drugs so that bacteria don’t develop resistance to them. The announcement affects antibiotics called cephalosporins, drugs used widely to treat things like pneumonia or skin infections in people. Cephalosporins are especially [...]
Number Of Twins Soars As Older Moms Turn To Fertility Treatments
The number of twins born each year in the United States has more than doubled since 1980, federal health officials reported Wednesday. For most of the last century the rate at which American women gave birth to twins remained steady at about 2 percent of all births. But the rate increased steadily between 1980 and [...]
In US, Hospital Round Trips More Common For Heart Attack Patients
If a heart attack sends you to an American hospital, you’ll probably go home after only two or three nights. That’s faster than virtually anyplace else in the world. But your chances of needing to go back into the hospital within the next month are also higher than they are for heart attack patients in [...]
Why A Teen Who Talks Back May Have A Bright Future
If you’re the parent of a teenager, you likely find yourself routinely embroiled in disputes with your child. Those disputes are the symbol of teen developmental separation from parents. It’s a vital part of growing up, but it can be extraordinarily wearing on parents. Now researchers suggest that those spats can be tamed and, in [...]
Study: Weight-Loss Surgery Can Cut Deaths From Heart Attacks, Strokes
Most patients who undergo bariatric surgery lose weight and experience other health benefits. They have less heart disease, diabetes and cancer than their obese counterparts who don’t have the surgery. Now, researchers from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden find bariatric surgery also reduces deaths from cardiovascular causes, such as heart attacks and strokes. In [...]
Should Doctors Be ‘Parsimonious’ About Health Care?
A major medical group issued ethical guidelines on Monday that take the provocative position of urging doctors to consider cost-effectiveness when deciding how to treat their patients. The American College of Physicians, the second-largest U.S. doctors’ group after the American Medical Association, included the recommendation in the latest version of its ethics manual, which provides [...]
Making The Best Of A Hospital Stay By Quitting Smoking
When smokers are in the hospital, they typically have to give up cigarettes for as long as they’re there. Most hospitals make little effort to screen patients for tobacco use or to help them kick the habit permanently. That’s a missed opportunity. Starting this month, though, hospitals can choose to adopt tobacco-cessation measures as part [...]
To Your Health: Time For New Resolutions
When the New Year’s parties end, a lot of us are left with some tough promises to keep. This year, I’ll lose weight. Smoking? History! And, of course, I’ll start working out, too. Really, I mean it this time. So with the day for fresh starts looming, we resolved to ask Americans about their New [...]
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