Total U.S. healthcare spending in 2012 increased by 3.7 percent -- 0.4 percentage points higher than in 2011 -- the lowest rate since 1960, U.S. officials say. An analysis by the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and ...
Health insurance is a fast changing landscape in the United States with the implementation of ObamaCare, also known as The Affordable Health Care Act. Health insurance companies are doing something called cost shifting where the cost of ...
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HRP-2 robots learn kitchen chores at the University of Tokyo's JSK Lab. Google has recently been in the news for its buying spree of robotics companies. Many people are excited about this and believe that this will greatly ...
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Over the past four decades, the rate of twin, triplet and other multiple births has soared, largely the result of fertility treatments, a new study finds. In 2011, more than one-third of twin births and more than three-quarters of ...
The bankrupt Boston-area pharmacy that allegedly made tainted steroid injections which sickened hundreds and killed 64 will compensate victims, officials say. Paul D. Moore, the bankruptcy trustee involved in the negotiations with the ...
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Placing five acupuncture needles in the outer ear may help people lose that spare tire, researchers report. Ear acupuncture therapy is based on the theory that the outer ear represents all parts of the body. One type uses one needle ...
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As the final phase of the Affordable Care Act, sometimes called "Obamacare," begins, a new report shows that more than 45 million Americans still don't have health insurance. As troubling as that number may seem, it represents only 14.6 ...
Smokers who have a CT scan to check for lung cancer stand a nearly one-in-five chance that doctors will find and potentially treat a tumor that would not have caused illness or death, researchers report. Despite the finding, major medical ...
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The early morning highlights from the major news organizations examine today's deadline for enrolling for health insurance that would begin Jan. 1, as well as a variety of other health law stories and several articles on mental health ...
China has decided to expand its over-the-counter (OTC) market to all qualified small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), according to an official statement released on Saturday. The State Council, China's Cabinet, announced that the OTC ...
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On December 7, Baosteel Co., Ltd made an announcement, announcing it successfully issued $500 million foreign bonds. The issuance of dollar bonds was the first time for Baosteel Co., Ltd to use a wholly owned overseas subsidiary Bao-Trans ...
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Privately insured U.S. women who paid nothing out-of-pocket for the pill increased from 15 percent to 40 percent with the Affordable Care Act, researchers say. Lawrence B. Finer, Adam Sonfield and Rachel K. Jones of the Guttmacher ...
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Efforts to apply psychological science to aggressive drivers are in their infancy but may have great potential, researchers in Canada said. Christine Wickens of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto and colleagues at York ...
There’s a patchwork of regulation when it comes to the towing industry— out of Ontario’s 444 municipalities, only a handful have towing regulations and even those are not harmonized and don’t properly regulate ...
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Vehicle collisions can cause expensive damage to a vehicle for a driver who is not covered under a policy to protect against out of pocket expenses. The Auto Pros company is making national companies available to the public to help research ...
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