News tagged with health affairs
Food habits of the poor unchanged by NY calories law: study
A New York City law requiring restaurant chains to display calorie counts has not changed eating habits among poorer people, a study released Tuesday said.
Oct 06, 2009 |
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UN puts off destroying last smallpox viruses
Health ministers from around the world agreed Tuesday to put off setting a deadline to destroy the last known stockpiles of the smallpox virus for three more years, rejecting a U.S. plan that had called for a five-year delay.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 25, 2011 |
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How do data exclusivity periods affect pharmaceutical innovation?
Pharmaceutical companies and generic drug manufacturers have long been at odds over regulations about "data exclusivity," the period of time before generic manufacturers can make use of valuable clinical trial data.
Jan 06, 2011 |
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Current Anti-Soda Strategies Not Curbing Childhood Obesity
(PhysOrg.com) -- Efforts to curb childhood obesity through school vending machine restrictions and making soft drinks more expensive with low levels of additional taxation have had a negligible effect, to ...
Apr 07, 2010 |
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Report: Feds to pay more than half of health costs
(AP) -- For all the hue and cry over a government takeover of health care, it's happening anyway.
Feb 04, 2010 |
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Electronic health record alone may have limited ability to improve quality, costs of care
The implementation of electronic health record systems may not be enough to significantly improve health quality and reduce costs. In the April 2010 issue of Health Affairs, researchers from the Mongan Institute for Health ...
Apr 06, 2010 |
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Breaking down barriers to prevent childhood obesity
The US is facing many challenges in controlling the childhood obesity epidemic. Despite recent efforts and some progress, one third of US children are still overweight or obese. Yet research has shown that the road to obesity ...
Mar 02, 2010 |
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Los Angeles fast-food restaurant ban unlikely to cut obesity, study finds
Restrictions on fast-food chain restaurants in South Los Angeles are not addressing the main differences between neighborhood food environments and are unlikely to improve the diet of residents or reduce obesity, according ...
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Poll analysis: Americans have conflicting views about spending on public health system
A comprehensive review of national opinion polls shows that Americans have conflicting views about the nation's public health system and are divided along partisan lines in their support of additional spending on public health ...
Nov 09, 2010 |
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Medicare cuts increase cancer treatments, study finds
In healthcare, less money doesn't always mean less service.
Jun 17, 2010 |
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1 in 4 Californian children have never seen a dentist, study finds
Lack of dental care continues to be a significant problem for American children, who miss about 1.6 million school days each year due to dental disease.
Jul 07, 2010 |
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U-M's concept of value-based insurance design featured in major health policy journal
Value-Based Insurance Design -- a concept created at the University of Michigan and incorporated in the nation's new health care reform law -- is the focus of an upcoming national policy journal.
Nov 02, 2010 |
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Hispanic elderly more likely than whites to live in inferior nursing homes
Hispanic senior citizens are living in nursing homes in ever-increasing numbers, but they face a gap in their quality of care compared to white residents, according to new research from Brown University.
Jan 05, 2010 |
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Economist argues that public-private partnerships are a must in creating an HIV vaccine
(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT economist Jeffrey Harris argues that while the scientific obstacles to creating an HIV vaccine are great, the lack of commercial incentive poses a major problem.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Barriers to adoption of electronic personal health records outlined
Interest in personal health records as an electronic tool to manage health information is increasing dramatically. A group led by a UCSF researcher has identified cost, privacy concerns, design shortcomings and difficulties ...
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Health Affairs
Health Affairs is a peer-reviewed health care policy academic journal founded in 1981. The journal has 10,000 domestic and international subscribers and is highly influential in the field; the Washington Post has described it as "the bible of health policy". According to the journal's homepage, it "is consulted by 55% of staff members on U.S. congressional committees of jurisdiction in health — ahead of JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine". Health Affairs is indexed and/or abstracted in PubMed, Medline, EBSCOhost, EBSCO EJS, ProQuest, Lexis-Nexis; Current Contents/Health Sciences and Behavioral Sciences; and SwetsWise Online Content.
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