Americans with health insurance are more likely than uninsured people to use preventive services such as flu shots and health screenings, according to a new study. They are no more likely, however, to take health risks such as smoking. ...
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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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Private contractors who worked in Afghanistan, Iraq and other conflict zones over the past two years have high rates of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a new study finds. Researchers conducted an anonymous online ...
Antibiotics for children that are covered by private insurance cost five times more in the United States than in the United Kingdom, where costs are covered by a government universal health plan. That's the finding of researchers who ...
The health insurance industry announced Wednesday that the payment deadline for those who buy health insurance through state and federal exchanges under the final provision of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, has been ...
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Too many Americans lack access to preventive dental care, a new study reports, and large differences exist among racial and ethnic groups. For the study, researchers analyzed telephone survey data collected from nearly 650,000 middle-aged ...
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However, producers may want to be more aggressive than normal in forward-pricing crops that provide acceptable profit. Projected crop budgets generally show some return to labor and management for 2014, although the price of most crops ...
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It's likely the world in the not-so-distant future will be increasingly populated by computerized people like Amal Graafstra. The 37-year-old doesn't need a key or password to get into his car, home or computer. He's programmed them to ...
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The delay on the part of the uninsured to buy health insurance may be because 60 percent struggle with insurance concepts,a U.S.survey indicates. The Urban Institute's Health Reform Monitoring Survey,a new initiative that tracks three ...
California's marketplace director reports enrollment for health insurance increased to 15,000 per day,a non-profit group specializing in healthcare says. Sara Collins and Tracy Garber of the Commonwealth Fund in New York said following ...
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Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service economists recently provided 2014 projections for major commodities produced in Texas, with many pointing to past drought conditions as a key factor in making or breaking a crop. The Plains region of ...
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Currently, monoclonal antibody agents have been successfully used in the treatment of tumors, cancers and other serious diseases as a heavyweight in the biopharmaceutical industry. In 2009-2012, the market size of monoclonal antibody agents ...
News outlets highlighted health care aspects of President Barack Obama's news conference. Politico: Obama: More Than A Million New Insured In December More than one million Americans signed up for health insurance under the Affordable ...
Most workers are satisfied with the health benefits they have now and express little interest in changing the current mix of benefits and wages offered by their employers, according to a new survey by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit ...
AK Steel provided guidance for its fourth quarter of 2013 financial results Wednesday, saying it expects to realize net income of $0.02 to $0.06 per diluted share of common stock, excluding the effects of a potential non-cash income tax ...