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Obama administration gives states more time to decide on health exchanges

On Friday afternoon, the Department of Health and Human Services extended the deadline until Dec. 14 for states to submit plans to set up state-based health insurance exchanges under the health care law. Those states that want to partner with the federal government have until Feb. 15 to outline the duties the state government would handle in running the exchanges.

14 Nov 2012

As Congress ponders spending cuts, health care industry, advocates urge Medicare be spared

Congress returns today and begins efforts to negotiate a budget deal that would avert the "fiscal cliff" of automatic spending cuts and tax increases, which are slated to take effect early next year.

14 Nov 2012

How the election factors into states' plans for the health law's Medicaid expansion and other changes

News outlets report that the outcome of some states' gubernatorial races will likely change the outlook for the health overhaul's sweeping Medicaid expansion. In general, however, the future remains unsettled.

14 Nov 2012

Roundup: Federal health coverage to extend to disaster relief workers; Cheers, jeers for Mass. assisted suicide defeat

The government is continuing to expand benefits policies in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, clearing the way for certain emergency relief employees to be eligible for federal health insurance and soliciting donations of leave for affected federal workers.

14 Nov 2012

$Increased dairy food consumption helps to prevent hip fractures and reduce healthcare costs$

Increased dairy food consumption helps to prevent hip fractures and reduce healthcare costs

European researchers have published a study which analyses the health economics of increased dairy foods and related reduction in risk of osteoporotic fractures in the population aged over 50.

14 Nov 2012

Guided Therapeutics files amended PMA with FDA for LuViva Advanced Cervical Scan

Guided Therapeutics, Inc., today announced that it has submitted its premarket approval (PMA) Amendment for the LuViva Advanced Cervical Scan, a non-invasive device used to detect cervical disease that leads to cancer, instantly and at the point of care.

13 Nov 2012

Tell the whole truth about implantable cardioverter-defibrillators

Consent discussions regarding the use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in elderly individuals rarely include the device's implications at the end of life, indicate US study results.

13 Nov 2012

Health law preparations go full throttle

The re-election of President Barack Obama all but ensured the survival of the law, news outlets report. Now, a slew of regulations must be issued and political and financial and organizational obstacles overcome.

9 Nov 2012

Patients more likely to develop ischemic stroke after total hip replacement surgeries

An international study involving the University of Southampton has shown people who undergo a total hip replacement are at a higher risk of a stroke in the first two weeks after surgery.

9 Nov 2012

Boehner, Obama signal willingness to work together on fiscal crisis

The House speaker says he would accept a deal that raises federal revenues, but not the top tax rates, if it also includes an overhaul of entitlement programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid.

9 Nov 2012

Republicans consider old, new ways to hinder health law implementation

Some Republicans and religious leaders are following through with challenges to the law's contraception coverage mandate, looking for ways to repeal a Medicare cost-cutting board and trying further to delay implementation.

9 Nov 2012

Health law confuses small business owners; Stock market, industry analysts say hospitals to likely gain

With the election over, the health care and other industries are taking stock of the health law's effects.

9 Nov 2012

States, especially GOP-controlled ones, facing crucial decisions on health insurance exchanges, Medicaid

Since the day it was enacted, many of the Affordable Care Act's opponents have preferred to treat it as provisional. ... there remain some significant uncertainties in the immediate future of the ACA, particularly in how Republican governors, who have vociferously opposed the law until now, will react in the wake of President Obama's victory.

9 Nov 2012

Teleconcussion for diagnosis and management of mild TBI in athletes

Concussion is a common disorder estimated to affect no fewer than 1.7-3.8 million people in the U.S. each year. Many more people with concussion likely do not seek medical care for symptoms of concussion and may suffer long-lasting, progressive, and profoundcognitive, psychiatric, and neurologic effects.

9 Nov 2012

Coffee hastens bowel recovery after colectomy

Individuals undergoing an elective open or laparoscopic colectomy recover bowel function more quickly if they drink coffee than if they drink water after the procedure, indicate the results of a German study.

8 Nov 2012

Viewpoints: Newspapers opine on Obama's health care, fiscal challenges

President Obama's dramatic re-election victory was not a sign that a fractured nation had finally come together on Election Day. But it was a strong endorsement of economic policies that stress job growth, health care reform, tax increases and balanced deficit reduction - and of moderate policies on immigration, abortion and same-sex marriage. ... Republicans had to be disappointed in the results of their unrelenting assault on Mr. Obama's health care reform law.

8 Nov 2012

Supporters of Mass. assisted suicide ballot measure concede defeat

Meanwhile, among the many ballot items across the country, Florida voters rejected an effort to block some of the federal health law's requirements and limits on abortion. But voters in Alabama, Missouri and Wyoming approved measures to curb the reach of the health law.

8 Nov 2012

Health law viewed as a big winner on election day

President Barack Obama's re-election is viewed as a "reprieve" for the health law but this development raises questions and issues about some of the implementation challenges that the overhaul will now face.

8 Nov 2012

Most patients taking common blood-thinning drugs may be receiving wrong dosage levels

Cardiology researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute have found that approximately 75 percent of patients taking two common blood-thinning drugs may be receiving the wrong dosage levels, according to a new study.

8 Nov 2012

Online forum for healthcare ethics consultants

Healthcare ethics consultants are called upon in the most difficult of circumstances; where do they turn for advice? The American Society For Bioethics and Humanities' Clinical Ethics Consultation Affairs Committee (CECA) is taking a community approach, creating an online forum for feedback and shared experiences to accompany a paper published in the Fall 2012 issue of the Journal of Clinical Ethics.

8 Nov 2012

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Latest Healthcare News and Research

Obama administration gives states more time to decide on health exchanges

As Congress ponders spending cuts, health care industry, advocates urge Medicare be spared

How the election factors into states' plans for the health law's Medicaid expansion and other changes

Roundup: Federal health coverage to extend to disaster relief workers; Cheers, jeers for Mass. assisted suicide defeat

Increased dairy food consumption helps to prevent hip fractures and reduce healthcare costs

Guided Therapeutics files amended PMA with FDA for LuViva Advanced Cervical Scan

Tell the whole truth about implantable cardioverter-defibrillators

Health law preparations go full throttle

Patients more likely to develop ischemic stroke after total hip replacement surgeries

Boehner, Obama signal willingness to work together on fiscal crisis

Republicans consider old, new ways to hinder health law implementation

Health law confuses small business owners; Stock market, industry analysts say hospitals to likely gain

States, especially GOP-controlled ones, facing crucial decisions on health insurance exchanges, Medicaid

Teleconcussion for diagnosis and management of mild TBI in athletes

Coffee hastens bowel recovery after colectomy

Viewpoints: Newspapers opine on Obama's health care, fiscal challenges

Supporters of Mass. assisted suicide ballot measure concede defeat

Health law viewed as a big winner on election day

Most patients taking common blood-thinning drugs may be receiving wrong dosage levels

Online forum for healthcare ethics consultants

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