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Study shows feasibility of collecting alcohol brand consumption data in ER departments

Five beer brands - Budweiser, Steel Reserve, Colt 45, Bud Ice and Bud Light - were consumed in the highest quantities by emergency room patients, according to a new pilot study from researchers at The Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

16 Aug 2013

In efforts to implement the health law, delays stack up

Recent news coverage has focused on a delay until 2015 for the overhaul's provision that limits out-of-pocket costs for some patients.

16 Aug 2013

Aggression and withdrawal behavior associated with soft drink consumption in young children

Americans buy more soft drinks per capita than people in any other country. These drinks are consumed by individuals of all ages, including very young children. Although soft drink consumption is associated with aggression, depression, and suicidal thoughts in adolescents, the relationship had not been evaluated in younger children.

16 Aug 2013

States continue to wrestle with health law implementation issues

Even as an Arkansas effort by a private group to block the health law appears to be falling short, states like Missouri continue to contemplate expanding Medicaid, and, in California, the health exchange experiences growing pains.

16 Aug 2013

GSA policies have positive effect on students' binge drinking

Canadian high schools with anti-homophobia policies or gay-straight alliances (GSAs) that have been in place for three years or more have a positive effect on both gay and straight students' problem alcohol use, according to a new study by University of British Columbia researchers.

16 Aug 2013

Talking up the health law to educate consumers

News outlets report that a variety of health law advocates -- ranging from federal, state and local officials to retirees and grassroots volunteers -- are hitting the streets and knocking on doors to inform people about the law and counter what some say is "misinformation."

16 Aug 2013

Health law promises to be a boon for advertisers

Already, TV executives expect insurers alone to spend as much as $1 billion. Meanwhile, the pro-health law group Organizing for Action released its latest spot.

16 Aug 2013

DOD says same-sex spouses to get benefits in early September

By early September, gay spouses of military members will get full benefits, including health care coverage. The Department of Defense said the benefits will be retroactive to the Supreme Court decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act in June.

16 Aug 2013

Critical-access hospitals would face funding trims under new plan

The proposal, advanced as part of a report from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General, would curb enhanced payments to as many as two-thirds of these facilities.

16 Aug 2013

Oraya Therapy Stereotactic Radiotherapy for treatment of wet AMDs now available at Optegra

Oraya Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that the Oraya Therapy Stereotactic Radiotherapy for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is now available at Optegra Manchester Eye Hospital, becoming the second facility in the UK to provide the therapy.

14 Aug 2013

Market trends: Super-sized hospitals and the emergence of free-standing ERs

The New York Times reports on the current wave of hospital mergers while NPR notes that the emergency room experience is getting a makeover.

14 Aug 2013

Viewpoints: Gov. Jindal skeptical of navigators program; scare tactics against Obamacare growing

By August 15, the Obama administration is expected to spend $54 million of our tax dollars to hire community organizers to push this law on the American people. ...

14 Aug 2013

Experts say current social media guidelines are misframing issue of physician professionalism

From the small-town doctor to the Freud—Ferenczi debate over sharing personal anecdotes, controversy over physicians' professional identity is nothing new. The question of physician conduct on social media is simply a new context for an old debate, but ethics and psychiatry experts at Johns Hopkins say current guidelines are misframing the issue of physician professionalism online, missing the opportunity to shed new light on the evergreen issue of physicians' role in society.

14 Aug 2013

Administration delays health law's limit on some out-of-pocket consumer costs

The New York Times reports that the change was included in a Department of Labor rule issued in February. Also in the news, KHN details the complex choices the overhaul presents for people with disabilities and Bloomberg notes a ruling by a U.S. District Court judge allowing Oklahoma's legal challenge to the law to proceed.

14 Aug 2013

State highlights: Texas waits for feds' ok on higher Medicaid payments

California schools may give students insulin injections and other medications without having to call in licensed nurses, the state's highest court ruled Monday. … The unanimous decision was a defeat for the powerful California Nurses Assn., which had argued that only licensed health care workers could administer medicine under a state law that bars the unauthorized practice of nursing (Dolan, 8/12).

14 Aug 2013

The countdown's on to opening day, but enrollment challenges persist

Stateline reports on the advocacy group Enroll America's plan to focus on 10 states as it tries to get the uninsured enrolled in plans offered on the new online insurance marketplaces. Meanwhile, the Senate's top Republican, Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is asking the administration to delay the exchanges because of data security concerns.

14 Aug 2013

New findings reveal that older prisoners have unmet health and social care needs

Prisons and partner organizations must do more to provide health and social care to growing population of older prisoners.

From The University of Manchester 14 Aug 2013

Health law political push evident in Ad spending, enrollment efforts

The war over health care is being waged all over again. Supporters and opponents of the Affordable Care Act -- also called Obamacare -- are battling for American eyeballs in an advertising and outreach war, reminiscent of the 2009 political fight when Congress debated the legislation (Green, 8/12).

14 Aug 2013

Employers can prevent and treat cancer diseases by promoting health programs in workplace

Employers can have a significant role in improving efforts to prevent and treat diseases such as cancer by introducing and supporting health promotion programs in the workplace. Together, companies can influence health care policies and reimbursement and industry practices to support the fight against cancer.

14 Aug 2013

Sebelius signals openness to state alternatives to Medicaid expansion

Speaking to the National Conference of State Legislatures, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said she is willing to work with states experimenting with new ways to insure poor Americans. Meanwhile, outlets in Virginia and Michigan report on the debate in those states about expanding the program.

14 Aug 2013

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Study shows feasibility of collecting alcohol brand consumption data in ER departments

In efforts to implement the health law, delays stack up

Aggression and withdrawal behavior associated with soft drink consumption in young children

States continue to wrestle with health law implementation issues

GSA policies have positive effect on students' binge drinking

Talking up the health law to educate consumers

Health law promises to be a boon for advertisers

DOD says same-sex spouses to get benefits in early September

Critical-access hospitals would face funding trims under new plan

Oraya Therapy Stereotactic Radiotherapy for treatment of wet AMDs now available at Optegra

Market trends: Super-sized hospitals and the emergence of free-standing ERs

Viewpoints: Gov. Jindal skeptical of navigators program; scare tactics against Obamacare growing

Experts say current social media guidelines are misframing issue of physician professionalism

Administration delays health law's limit on some out-of-pocket consumer costs

State highlights: Texas waits for feds' ok on higher Medicaid payments

The countdown's on to opening day, but enrollment challenges persist

New findings reveal that older prisoners have unmet health and social care needs

Health law political push evident in Ad spending, enrollment efforts

Employers can prevent and treat cancer diseases by promoting health programs in workplace

Sebelius signals openness to state alternatives to Medicaid expansion

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