The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says it has taken steps to give those buying individual health insurance for Jan. 1 coverage. Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of HHS, says the steps include requiring insurers to accept ...
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Duke University’s Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) has been selected by Oxygen Biotherapeutics, a pharmaceutical company, to conduct the Phase III clinical trial of the company’s newly acquired compound, levosimendan. ...
US-based Surefire Medical has completed enrollment in the Coiling vs. Surefire infusion system in Y90 (COSY) clinical trial. This randomized prospective study investigates the feasibility and benefits of performing Selective Internal ...
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Cook Medical has begun a US clinical trial to evaluate the possibility of removing a new Evolution esophageal fully covered stent after malignant and benign strictures have been treated. In this clinical study, design of the Evolution ...
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As of Nov. 2, far fewer marketplace healthcare insurance applicants applied for federal subsidies than the number eligible, a U.S. analysis showed. The Avalere Health analysis found 30 percent of marketplace healthcare insurance ...
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The 20 states that did not expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act help pay for the expanded Medicaid program in other states, a U.S. non-profit says. A Commonwealth Fund Study found Texas, Florida, Georgia,and Virginia were the ...
Low-income U.S. adults and those age 30 and younger -- two key groups targeted by the Affordable Care Act -- are the least familiar with it, a survey says. The new healthcare law's success will rest at least partially on young Americans' ...
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The 20 states that did not expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act help pay for the expanded Medicaid program in other states, a U.S. non-profit says. A Commonwealth Fund Study found Texas, Florida, Georgia,and Virginia were the ...
A 30-year-old woman trained to be a health insurance Marketplace "navigator" said except for the wonky website the worst healthcare impediment was fear. Marina Saenz Luna of the Rio Grande Valley in southeast Texas was trained to help ...
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MetLife, a US life insurer, has been chosen as an official partner for the US Department of Veterans Affairs Dental Insurance Program (VADIP), for which enrollment started on 15 November, while the coverage begins from 1 January 2014. ...
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AtriCure, a developer of solutions to treat atrial fibrillation (Afib), has announced the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval to begin enrollment in a clinical study of its AtriClip left atrial appendage exclusion system. ...
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Svelte Medical Systems (New Providence, NJ) announced that it had successfully completed enrollment in its DIRECT II drug-eluting stent clinical study. The trial is designed to study the safety and efficacy of the company’s ...
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Oraya Therapeutics announced that initial three-year safety follow-up data from its INTREPID study of Oraya Therapy stereotactic radiotherapy for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) were presented for the first time ...
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W. L. Gore & Associates (Gore) has announced that Dr Brian Peterson from Saint Louis University, enrolled the first patient in the Gore EXCLUDER iliac branch clinical study. The clinical study is a prospective, multi-center, ...
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HealthCare.gov -- was stable all week, with no unscheduled outages, President Obama's adviser said. Jeff Zients, chief performance officer and deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, was brought in to oversee ...
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