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Racial disparities in asthma exist even among children with equal access to health care

Within a comprehensive health insurance system, black and Hispanic children appear more likely than white children to have asthma and their outcomes are often worse, according to a report posted online today that will appear ...

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created Jun 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Large-scale early education linked to higher living standards and crime prevention 25 years later

High-quality early education has a strong, positive impact well into adulthood, according to research led by Arthur Reynolds, co-director of the Human Capital Research Collaborative and professor of child development, and ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Obama administration eases pain of Medicare cuts

(AP) -- Millions of seniors in popular private insurance plans offered through Medicare will be getting a reprieve from some of the most controversial cuts in President Barack Obama's health care law.

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created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New health insurance survey: 9 million adults joined ranks of uninsured due to job loss in 2010

An estimated nine million working-age adults—57 percent of people who had health insurance through a job that was lost—became uninsured in the last two years, according to the Commonwealth Fund 2010 Biennial Health ...

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created Mar 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Teens and young adults with cancer face unique challenges and require targeted care

Adolescents and young adults are neither children nor adults and those affected by cancer require targeted care that crosses the boundaries between pediatric and adult oncology, according to several pioneers in this still-developing ...

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created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

CFO survey: Outlook rosier, but inflation a worry

Chief financial officers in the U.S. have a more optimistic outlook about the economy, with robust growth expected in earnings and capital spending. Overall employment is expected to grow slowly, though some job categories ...

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created Mar 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Massachusetts reform hasn't stopped medical bankruptcies: study

The percentage of personal bankruptcies linked to medical bills or illness changed little, and the absolute number actually increased in Massachusetts after the implementation of its landmark 2006 law requiring people to ...

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created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

The sorry state of health of US medicine

As the debate about healthcare in the United States rages, four insightful articles in the March 2011 issue of The American Journal of Medicine strive to add reasoned arguments and empirical research findings to the dialog ...

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created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Adult care for congenital heart disease patients should begin in adolescence

Doctors should transition their patients from pediatric to adult medical care for congenital heart disease during early adolescence, experts recommend in a scientific statement published in Circulation: Journal of the Am ...

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created Feb 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study: Get thee to a stroke center

Hospitals with designated stroke centers are associated with up to 20 percent higher survival rate for patients with ischemic stroke and significantly greater use of acute stroke therapy. That is the conclusion of a study ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jan 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Advocacy in tight fiscal environment vital to reducing heart disease and stroke

The American Heart Association has, for the first time, published a statement, "American Heart Association and Nonprofit Advocacy: Past, Present, and Future," that documents the association's longstanding commitment to improve ...

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created Jan 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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