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Hearing explores potential of health law's Medicare payment experiments

During a Senate Finance Committee hearing, an administration official said the potential of the these efforts to show cost-lowering results would take time.

22 Mar 2013

CVS demands employees offer health info or pay more for coverage

Chain drugstore CVS is offering employees a choice: Reveal health info, including their weight, or pay as much as $600 more per year for their health insurance.

22 Mar 2013

Trained Spanish nurses provide quality care comparable to that of general practitioners, study finds

A new study has found that Spanish nurses trained specifically to resolve acute health problems of low complexity provide care of comparable quality to that of general practitioners. Published early online in the Journal of Advanced Nursing, the findings suggest that nurses may be able to take on some of the care generally provided by physicians.

21 Mar 2013

First Edition: March 21, 2013

Today's headlines include various reports about what the public knows -- and doesn't know -- about the health law.

21 Mar 2013

New issue of GHD-NET's Health & Foreign Policy Bulletin available online

The February 2013 issue of the Global Health Diplomacy Network's Health & Foreign Policy Bulletin is now available online.

21 Mar 2013

Study examines impact of adult behaviors on children's coping and distress after surgery

A study in the April issue of Anesthesiology found adult behaviors influence children's coping in the recovery room after surgery. In addition, the study from Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital, New Haven, CT, identified specific adult behaviors that increase or decrease the likelihood children will become distressed.

21 Mar 2013

Some public health experts concerned over Saudi Arabia's response to SARS-like virus

"A SARS-like virus has infected 15 people, nine of whom have died, mostly in Saudi Arabia, worrying some Western scientists who question whether the kingdom is sharing enough critical data on the outbreak," "[b]ut a top Saudi Arabia health official rejected those complaints on Tuesday and said the virus posed a low risk of pandemic," the Wall Street Journal reports.

21 Mar 2013

Experts provide guidebook for surgeons dealing with head and neck neoplasms

In this unique volume, leading international experts share their experiences in the management of head and neck tumors, providing a guidebook for all surgeons dealing with head and neck neoplasms.

21 Mar 2013

Report on Austrian national health care system approach to psychosomatic medicine

One of the last issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics has a report on the characteristics of a training program in psychosomatic medicine that places Austria in a top position in Europe.

21 Mar 2013

Lancet to launch new global health journal

The Lancet on Monday announced the launch of a new journal, Lancet Global Health, according to a press release (3/18).

21 Mar 2013

Social work professor explores U.N.'s task ahead to care for aging

In Norway, families receive public support that enables them to care for aging parents in their own homes and keep them out of nursing homes. This includes a salary for a son or daughter to provide care.

21 Mar 2013

New research may help clinicians determine factors that increase risk of blood clots after surgery

New research from the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, published in the Journal of Surgical Research, may help clinicians determine which patients are at highest risk for post-surgical blood clots in the legs or lungs.

21 Mar 2013

Blog reports on Consortium of Universities for Global Health annual conference

The Global Health Technologies Coalition's "Breakthroughs" blog reports on the Consortium of Universities for Global Health annual conference held last week, highlighting "a panel hosted by the GHTC, which focused on current fiscal and policy realities in the United States that will impact global health research and development in the coming year and beyond."

21 Mar 2013

AANS, CNS urge Congress to restore Medicare payments for stereotactic radiosurgery

he American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons are urging Congress to restore Medicare hospital outpatient payment rates for Cobalt-60-based stereotactic radiosurgery to those in place prior to the enactment of the American Taxpayer Relief Act.

21 Mar 2013

Patient-centered end-of-life care results in happier patients who live longer, researchers find

New doctors take an oath to first do no harm, but physicians often go too far in their quest to keep that oath - exposing patients to aggressive treatments that don't improve outcomes and drive up healthcare costs.

21 Mar 2013

Motivating food shoppers to make healthy choices

Researchers at RAND found the result of offering rebates for healthy foods can lead to shifts in diets, which could have public policy implications.

21 Mar 2013

Study examines overuse of ER for nonemergency visits

Visits to the ER are not always for true medical emergencies - and some policymakers have been fighting the problem by denying or limiting payments if the patient's diagnosis upon discharge is for "nonemergency" conditions.

21 Mar 2013

Supreme Court considering generic drugmaker safety liability

The Supreme Court is weighing if generic drugmakers can be sued over the safety of their drugs or if federal regulators' safety approval is enough to block all such legal challenges.

21 Mar 2013

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center joins alliance of world's leading cancer centers

On March 19, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network announced the election of University of California, San Diego Moores Cancer Center as the first and only San Diego-based NCCN Member Institution dedicated to improving the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of care provided to patients with cancer.

21 Mar 2013

Texas lawmakers consider stricter licensing for abortion clinics

In Texas, a state Senate committee is considering a bill that Democrats say would effectively ban abortion.

21 Mar 2013

Healthcare News

Hearing explores potential of health law's Medicare payment experiments

CVS demands employees offer health info or pay more for coverage

Trained Spanish nurses provide quality care comparable to that of general practitioners, study finds

First Edition: March 21, 2013

New issue of GHD-NET's Health & Foreign Policy Bulletin available online

Study examines impact of adult behaviors on children's coping and distress after surgery

Some public health experts concerned over Saudi Arabia's response to SARS-like virus

Experts provide guidebook for surgeons dealing with head and neck neoplasms

Report on Austrian national health care system approach to psychosomatic medicine

Lancet to launch new global health journal

Social work professor explores U.N.'s task ahead to care for aging

New research may help clinicians determine factors that increase risk of blood clots after surgery

Blog reports on Consortium of Universities for Global Health annual conference

AANS, CNS urge Congress to restore Medicare payments for stereotactic radiosurgery

Patient-centered end-of-life care results in happier patients who live longer, researchers find

Motivating food shoppers to make healthy choices

Study examines overuse of ER for nonemergency visits

Supreme Court considering generic drugmaker safety liability

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center joins alliance of world's leading cancer centers

Texas lawmakers consider stricter licensing for abortion clinics

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