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Research roundup: Patients hesitant to focus on costs; Increase in primary care demand is uneven

One way to contain health care spending is to get patients involved in weighing costs of treatment options with their doctors. Researchers recruited 211 medically insured participants to assess their willingness to consider costs when choosing treatments. The authors found that participants generally "preferred better care, even when the relative benefit it offered was marginal, and even when told that the second-best choice still met the threshold of 'good enough' care from a clinician's perspective.

26 Feb 2013

Opinions on state Medicaid expansion: More GOP governors should follow lead of Brewer and Scott; Va. compromise a 'fiasco'

This month, Republican Governors Jan Brewer (Ariz.), John Kasich (Ohio) and most recently Rick Scott (Fla.) decided to accept the Medicaid expansion in the Affordable Care Act, bringing billions of dollars of federal funding to their states and ensuring access to medical care for thousands of their most vulnerable citizens. Republican governors of the more than 15 states still refusing to participate would do well to follow suit.

26 Feb 2013

NYAM initiative to create improved supports for New York's older adults during disasters

The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) has received $185,000 from The New York Community Trust and $100,000 from Altman Foundation to launch an initiative to create improved supports for New York's community-dwelling older adults before, during, and after disasters and other mass, long-term events, like power outages and heat waves.

26 Feb 2013

Viewpoints: Health care 'price gouging;' Health law pushing employers to cut workers' hours; Medicare spending must be tamed

Steven Brill's cover story on the Looking Glass world of healthcare pricing may be the longest article Time Magazine has ever published, but more importantly, it is a fresh sign that the medical-industrial complex should be worried as the deadline for launching Obamacare rolls closer.

26 Feb 2013

Roundup: N.Y. GOP readies Medicaid probe after allegations; Mich. lawmakers consider Blue Cross overhaul without abortion provisions; Long-term care costs in Calif.

New York state Senate Republicans plan to investigate the state's Medicaid program after news reports and a congressional audit alleged it was fraught with waste and mismanagement.

25 Feb 2013

Gender bias detected for hip arthroplasty failure

Women are significantly more likely than men to experience implant failure after primary total hip arthroplasty, suggests research published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

25 Feb 2013

Comprehensive portfolio of antiretroviral products from Mylan

Mylan Inc., one of the world's leading generic and specialty pharmaceutical companies, today announced that its subsidiary in South Africa, Mylan (Proprietary) Limited, has launched a comprehensive portfolio of antiretroviral (ARV) products.

25 Feb 2013

FDA alerts patients and health care providers of voluntary recall of Omontys by Affymax

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is alerting health care providers and patients of a voluntary nationwide recall of all lots of Omontys Injection by Affymax, Inc., of Palo Alto, Calif., and Takeda Pharmaceuticals Company Limited, of Deerfield, Ill.

25 Feb 2013

Study underscores burden that severe hot flashes put on women and society

Hot flashes put a damper on women's health and productivity at work and pump up the cost of health care. A study published online this month in Menopause, the journal of the North American Menopause Society (NAMS), has put some numbers on their impact.

25 Feb 2013

Study confirms presence of four molecular classes of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is the seventh most common form of cancer in the United States, but other than an association with the human papillomavirus, no validated molecular profile of the disease has been established.

25 Feb 2013

Va. lawmakers establish panel to work on Medicaid expansion

Concerns from Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli almost derailed the fragile compromise but revisions secured bipartisan support to pass the bill. Democrats hope it will lead to 400,000 uninsured Virginians moving to Medicaid under the federal health law.

25 Feb 2013

Death toll from SARS-like virus rises to 7

"Another person suffering from a SARS-like virus has died in Saudi Arabia, the World Health Organization said Thursday, bringing the worldwide number of fatalities from the mystery illness to seven," Agence France-Presse reports.

24 Feb 2013

Expert brief examines use of global health data

"Bill Gates, Margaret Chan, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), and other experts and leaders gathered this month in Geneva for a very important meeting on a very unimportant-sounding subject: global disease estimates," Thomas Bollyky, senior fellow for global health, economics and development at the Council on Foreign Relations writes in an expert brief on the council's webpage.

24 Feb 2013

World closer than ever to ending pediatric AIDS

Writing in the Huffington Post's "Global Motherhood" blog, Chip Lyons, president and CEO of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, highlights the foundation's "first annual 'Global Champions for a Mother's Fight' gala, an opportunity to honor some of our heroes in the battle against pediatric HIV/AIDS and discuss global change, innovation, and advocacy."

24 Feb 2013

Blog posts examine different contraceptive methods

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog features an ongoing series titled "What's Your Method?" that provides posts about many of the contraceptive options for women and girls worldwide and how different organizations are working to ensure these methods become accessible options for women who want and need them.

24 Feb 2013

USAID pledges $20M in humanitarian aid to Somalia

"Signaling the latest step forward in rapidly strengthening U.S.-Somalia relations, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development spent five hours in Mogadishu on Thursday, the highest ranking U.S. administration official to visit Somalia's capital in years," the Associated Press reports.

24 Feb 2013