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Wide variation among states in access to care, coverage for poor

There is wide variation in access to health care for the poor among the states, with the higher-performing states making it more likely that their poorer residents have health coverage and get preventive care, a new study finds.

19 Sep 2013

Putting the health law puzzle pieces together, and making sense of it

News organizations help make sense of all the different moving parts of the health law -- attitudes, concerns, lawsuits and business decisions -- as the nation gears up for Oct. 1's launch of the health insurance exchanges.

19 Sep 2013

ASTRO to award $8,000 Survivor Circle grants to two Georgia cancer patient support groups

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has selected two Georgia cancer patient support groups, The Cancer Foundation of Northeast Georgia and the South Georgia Medical Center, Pearlman Cancer Center, to receive ASTRO's 2013 Survivor Circle grants.

19 Sep 2013

Obamacare navigators caught in debate over data security

As Republican congressmen demand more safeguards to ensure thieves don't impersonate government-funded navigators to steal consumer information, the Obama administration plans a high-level effort to reassure people that their data are safe.

19 Sep 2013

Study: Countries with lower gun ownership are safer than those with higher gun ownership

A new study reports that countries with lower gun ownership are safer than those with higher gun ownership, debunking the widely quoted hypothesis that guns make a nation safer.

19 Sep 2013

Florida battles over Obamacare intensify

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius made her third trip to Florida in a week to tout the health law, while state officials are taking steps to stymie enrollment in the new online insurance exchanges which open in two weeks.

19 Sep 2013

First Edition: September 18, 2013

Today's headlines include reports about the Census Bureau's latest figures on the nation's uninsured as well as Congressional Budget Office long-term deficit projections and how that news fits into events in the ongoing Capitol Hill budget battles.

18 Sep 2013

Sequenom announces Certified Service Provider program for technical certification

Sequenom, Inc., a life sciences company providing innovative diagnostic testing and genetic analysis solutions, today announced a Certified Service Provider (CSP) program for the technical certification of selected laboratories offering research services using the Sequenom research-use-only MassARRAY System.

18 Sep 2013

UAB paper suggests that physical activity, exercise important for healthy aging

A clinical review from geriatricians at the University of Alabama at Birmingham suggests that mobility limitations are a litmus test for healthy aging and urges primary care physicians to take a more aggressive role in ascertaining the mobility of their older patients.

18 Sep 2013

Viewpoints: WSJ says GOP 'kamikaze' defunding mission will not go well; taxing Medicare benefits; problems with Penn. State's wellness program

These critics [like Heritage Action and the Club for Growth] portrayed the Boehner plan as a sellout because of a campaign that captured the imagination of some conservatives this summer: Republicans must threaten to crash their Zeros into the aircraft carrier of ObamaCare.

18 Sep 2013

Study: Rate of California ED visits higher among adult Medicaid beneficiaries

Emergency department (ED) use has been affected by insurance patterns over time and will likely be further affected by expansions of coverage from health care reform." Uninsured patients are often thought of as high and frequently inappropriate ED users, but insured patients, particularly those with Medicaid coverage, may have difficulties accessing primary care and may rely on EDs more frequently than uninsured patients, write Renee Y. Hsia, M.D., M.Sc., of the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues.

18 Sep 2013

Tips for reducing allergens in yards

Prepping your yard this fall can give you a head start on spring landscaping, but it can also mean suffering from seasonal allergies seasonal allergies. Ragweed pollen and lingering mold can create double the symptoms for some allergy sufferers.

18 Sep 2013

Florida Hospital and VTT of Finland collaborate to predict early onsets of Alzheimer's disease

In an effort to better understand the development of Alzheimer's disease, Florida Hospital Neuroscience Institute and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland are collaborating to identify the biomarker assay that may predict early onsets of the disease.

18 Sep 2013

AAPM commends FDA’s move to introduce labeling changes on ER/LA opioids

The physicians of the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) hailed long-awaited labeling changes and other steps taken by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week to enhance safety in the prescribing of extended-release and long-acting (ER/LA) opioids.

18 Sep 2013

GOP lawmakers contemplate daunting budgetary choices -- Defund health law? Avoid gov't shutdown? Raise debt ceiling?

The fiscal choices set up intra-party fissure for Republicans and draw more tough talk from President Barack Obama.

18 Sep 2013

Mayo Clinic to host annual Individualizing Medicine Conference from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2

From Promise to Practice is the title and the main message of the second annual Individualizing Medicine Conference at Mayo Clinic, Sept. 30-Oct. 2. Physicians from more than 40 states and several countries will be arriving in Minnesota to hear and learn about the latest developments and research in genomic research and how to move these discoveries into the medical practice.

18 Sep 2013

Researchers identify three risk factors that predict smoking initiation among young adults

The risk of becoming a smoker among young adults who have never smoked is high: 14% will become smokers between the ages of 18 and 24, and three factors predict this behaviour.

18 Sep 2013

Neonatal hepatocytes show better thawing recovery than hepatocytes from adult livers

A research team in Spain has developed high-yield preparations of viable hepatocytes (liver cells) isolated for transplantation from cryopreserved (frozen), banked neonatal livers that ranged in age from one day to 23 days.

18 Sep 2013

Husserl-Archiv holds conference on the theme of social experience

From the 25th till 28th September, the Husserl-Archiv of the University of Cologne together with the Gesellschaft für phänomenologische Forschung (The German Society for phenomenological Research) is holding a conference on the theme of social experience.

18 Sep 2013

The AP: Census data expected to show little improvement in number of uninsured

Analysts predict the poverty rate will decline by up to half a percentage point from its current level of 15 percent, or 46.2 million people.

18 Sep 2013

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Wide variation among states in access to care, coverage for poor

Putting the health law puzzle pieces together, and making sense of it

ASTRO to award $8,000 Survivor Circle grants to two Georgia cancer patient support groups

Obamacare navigators caught in debate over data security

Study: Countries with lower gun ownership are safer than those with higher gun ownership

Florida battles over Obamacare intensify

First Edition: September 18, 2013

Sequenom announces Certified Service Provider program for technical certification

UAB paper suggests that physical activity, exercise important for healthy aging

Viewpoints: WSJ says GOP 'kamikaze' defunding mission will not go well; taxing Medicare benefits; problems with Penn. State's wellness program

Study: Rate of California ED visits higher among adult Medicaid beneficiaries

Tips for reducing allergens in yards

Florida Hospital and VTT of Finland collaborate to predict early onsets of Alzheimer's disease

AAPM commends FDA’s move to introduce labeling changes on ER/LA opioids

GOP lawmakers contemplate daunting budgetary choices -- Defund health law? Avoid gov't shutdown? Raise debt ceiling?

Mayo Clinic to host annual Individualizing Medicine Conference from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2

Researchers identify three risk factors that predict smoking initiation among young adults

Neonatal hepatocytes show better thawing recovery than hepatocytes from adult livers

Husserl-Archiv holds conference on the theme of social experience

The AP: Census data expected to show little improvement in number of uninsured

Advancing Menopause Care: Non-Hormonal Treatments for Vasomotor Symptoms

Building quality into drug development for safer, faster medicines

How Pulp Fixin Is Turning Paper into High-Performance Sustainable Labware

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