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White House, GOP Senators throw in the towel on budget talks

Over past weeks, the Republicans had moved away from the kind of "grand bargain" sought by the president, which would have combined higher tax revenues with cuts to programs like Medicare. Republicans said the talks had yielded "no common ground."

31 Aug 2013

State insurance exchanges: Separating fact from fiction

Georgia Health News asks a state insurance expert to analyze premiums in the new online marketplace -- they dispute predictions of exploding premiums by Georgia's insurance commissioner.

31 Aug 2013

DebMed introduces new dispenser that provides access to hand sanitizer

DebMed®, creator of the world's first electronic hand hygiene compliance monitoring system based on the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Five Moments for Hand Hygiene, introduced today the availability of a new dispenser that provides access to hand sanitizer in the immediate area within the patient zone.

31 Aug 2013

Health law subsidies present calculation challenges

The Wall Street Journal reports on the challenges of calculating future income and health insurance subsidies -- both of which will have an impact on the health law's new insurance marketplaces. Meanwhile, The Washington Post reports on how executive-branch and legislative-branch employees will have different experiences with the overhaul.

31 Aug 2013

Health exchange rate shock not so likely, study finds

A study by Rand Corp. researchers concludes that predictions of sharp jumps in insurance premiums for coverage purchased through the new online insurance marketplaces may be overstated.

31 Aug 2013

Nutritional supplements provided to inpatients linked with reductions in length of stay, hospitalization cost

A recent health economics and outcomes study, conducted by leading health economists and supported by Abbott, found that oral nutritional supplements provided to patients during hospitalization were associated with significant reductions in length of stay and hospitalization cost.

31 Aug 2013

White House readies major health law push

The strategy will feature the president, as well as First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Jill Biden, appearing in key states over the next six months to encourage people to enroll in new coverage options. Politico also looks at how former President Bill Clinton will be part of the effort to sell the American public on the overhaul.

31 Aug 2013

New book includes personal accounts of people who have survived brain injury

Leading neuropsychological experts, Barbara A. Wilson, Jill Winegardner and Fiona Ashworth, bring you Life After Brain Injury: Survivors' Stories, the first book of its kind to include the personal accounts of people who have survived injury to the brain, with specialist discussion.

30 Aug 2013

First Edition: August 30, 2013

Today's headlines include the latest news on congressional efforts to avert a financial crisis as well as coverage of the news from the Internal Revenue Service, Treasury Department and Department of Health and Human Services about how same-sex marriage will be recognized.

30 Aug 2013

What factors affect readmission risk after plastic surgery?

For patients undergoing plastic and reconstructive surgery procedures, obesity, anemia and postoperative complications—especially surgical and wound complications—are independent risk factors for hospital readmission, reports a study in the September issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

30 Aug 2013

Mayo Clinic’s programs offer hope and treatment to tobacco-dependent patients

Mayo Clinic's Nicotine Dependence Center (NDC) in Rochester is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. As one of the first centers in the country to focus exclusively on treatments for tobacco dependence when it opened in 1988, the NDC has been at the forefront of the battle of nicotine addiction nationally as well as globally, offering the latest education and training programs, advancing research aimed at tobacco dependence interventions and offering treatment approaches to tobacco users.

30 Aug 2013

Researchers raise awareness about ovarian cancers into synagogues across the country

This fall, the University of Pennsylvania's Basser Research Center for BRCA is taking its lifesaving efforts to raise awareness about hereditary breast and ovarian cancers on the road and into synagogues across the country.

30 Aug 2013

Viewpoints: Rove says job losses growing under health law; GOP strategists say health overhaul is aiding their path to white house; Mich. Senators who opposed Medicaid expansion gave themselves lifetime medical benefits

Thousands of American higher-education administrators will spend part of Labor Day weekend trying to plumb the meaning of the ideas President Obama dropped on them last week to "reform" the American college and university system.

30 Aug 2013

State highlights: Calif. dems propose alternative prison care plan; N.Y. extends managed care to cut Medicaid costs; Ga. Medicaid rolls at new high

Democratic leaders of the state Senate on Wednesday proposed an extra $200 million annually for rehabilitation, drug and mental health treatment as an alternative to Gov. Jerry Brown's plan for reducing prison crowding (McGreevy, 8/28).

30 Aug 2013

Colorado continues preparing for exchange 'snafus'; abortion coverage questions persist for Washington's marketplace

Meanwhile, researchers say that if Connecticut's streamlined enrollment process works well, it could mean a significant jump in the number of people who gain insurance for the first time.

30 Aug 2013

Longer looks: Lack of cancer vaccines, misleading nutrition labels, should women pay more than men for insurance?

Six years from now, when my daughter turns 11, she will get a three-part human papillomavirus vaccine that will reduce her chances of getting cervical cancer by around 70 percent.

30 Aug 2013

Report sheds light on adolescents using illegal substances on an average day

On an average day, 881,684 teenagers aged 12 to 17 smoked cigarettes, according to a report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The report also says that on an average day 646,707 adolescents smoked marijuana and 457,672 drank alcohol.

30 Aug 2013

Healthcare News

White House, GOP Senators throw in the towel on budget talks

State insurance exchanges: Separating fact from fiction

DebMed introduces new dispenser that provides access to hand sanitizer

Health law subsidies present calculation challenges

Health exchange rate shock not so likely, study finds

Nutritional supplements provided to inpatients linked with reductions in length of stay, hospitalization cost

White House readies major health law push

New book includes personal accounts of people who have survived brain injury

First Edition: August 30, 2013

What factors affect readmission risk after plastic surgery?

Mayo Clinic’s programs offer hope and treatment to tobacco-dependent patients

Researchers raise awareness about ovarian cancers into synagogues across the country

Viewpoints: Rove says job losses growing under health law; GOP strategists say health overhaul is aiding their path to white house; Mich. Senators who opposed Medicaid expansion gave themselves lifetime medical benefits

State highlights: Calif. dems propose alternative prison care plan; N.Y. extends managed care to cut Medicaid costs; Ga. Medicaid rolls at new high

Colorado continues preparing for exchange 'snafus'; abortion coverage questions persist for Washington's marketplace

Longer looks: Lack of cancer vaccines, misleading nutrition labels, should women pay more than men for insurance?

Report sheds light on adolescents using illegal substances on an average day

Small businesses passing health cost increases on to workers; employers blame health law for shrinking benefits

Duke Institute for Health Innovation to be launched on September

As some republican state leaders continue to resist the health law, others view it as political reality

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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