The imminent death of a patient is riddled with emotions for a patient and family as well as the medical team. A study based on the reflections of third-year Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine students is shedding light on ...
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A study from the University of Colorado School of Medicine shows patients with Medicaid insurance seeking care in an emergency department may be driven by lack of alternatives instead of the severity of their illness. The study is published ...
Tags: Medicaid insurance, emergency department, emergency care, Roberta Capp
Black, Hispanic and Asian physicians play an outsized role in the care of disadvantaged patients nationally. Patients who have low incomes, are from racial and ethnic minority backgrounds, have Medicaid insurance, or who do not speak ...
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The federal online marketplace provides guidance for those who have newly purchased health insurance and are asking, "Now what?" U.S. officials say. Officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said healthcare.gov can ...
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North American labor rights groups welcomed a landmark agreement, announced, to deliver an estimated $40 million in compensation to the families of those killed in the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh and called on Walmart, ...
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A U.S. travel health notice advises those traveling to St. Martin in the Caribbean to take steps to protect themselves from mosquito bites, officials say. Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they are closely ...
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Most Americans with dementia who live at home have numerous health, safety and supportive care needs that aren't being met, a new study shows. Any one of these issues could force people with dementia out of the home sooner than they ...
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Abuse of narcotic painkillers and other prescription drugs is a growing problem in the United States, and a leading doctors' group is urging members to exercise tighter control on the medications. The American College of Physicians (ACP) ...
Less than half of adults who are losing their vision to diabetes have been told by a doctor that diabetes could damage their eyesight, a new study found. Vision loss is a common complication of diabetes, and is caused by damage that the ...
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 ...
A student at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, was diagnosed with viral meningitis, but campus officials say it is an isolated case. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo officials said university medical staff see no evidence ...
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Almost 7-in-10 U.S. parents say they are concerned their children don't receive adequate physical education in school, a survey indicates. The NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health survey of 1,368 U.S. parents ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Vifor Pharma's hyperphosphatemia drug Velphoro for the control of serum phosphorus levels in patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) on dialysis. Approval of Velphor, which is an ...
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BSNL in association with Pantel Technologies Private Limited (PTPL) has launched the next generation of Smart Devices - the "Bharat Phone" PF300, the Penta Smart models PS501 & PS650 and the next generation Penta T-Pad WS707C respectively. ...
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After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely? A few years ago, I started looking online to fill in chapters of my family history that no ...
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