Why Hospitals Want Your Credit Report
Why Hospitals Want Your Credit Report – Are they meddling or do they have a good reason. Knowing who won’t pay their bills is important, cause someone’s gonna have to.
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Digitized Medical Record
Digitized Medical Record – Becoming more and more a means of containing information that may help to clarify information and avoid life threatening mistakes.
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Medicare Pay for Performance
Medicare Pay for Performance-Can proactive services by medical providers improve health and drive down costs?
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Eating Out in South Los Angeles
Eating Out in South Los Angeles - LA has voted to restrict the addition of new fast food establishments. Maybe the fact that there is a 57% higher rate of obesity than neighboring areas and almost three quarters of restaurants are fast food. We all pay the price and this may be a trend that grows.
Health Reform Should Mean Personal Responsibility
Health Reform Should Mean Personal Responsibility: (Op Ed) Insuring those whose life styles degrade good health should not be supported by public funds without reciprocal efforts toward prevention and early diagnosis.
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Proposed Tax on Sugary Beverages Debated
The debate over a tax on sugary soft drinks — billed as a way to fight obesity and provide billions for health care reform — is starting to fizz over.
9/20/09 Proposed Tax on Sugary Beverages Debated, Social Snacking Next to a Size Zero
Proposed Tax on Sugary Beverages Debated : The debate over a tax on sugary soft drinks — billed as a way to fight obesity and provide billions for health care reform — is starting to fizz over. Social Snacking Next to a Size Zero: It is well established that we look to others for cues about how much food to eat. Break bread with a glutton, and you’ll most likely eat a big portion too. But a paper soon to be published in the Journal of Consumer Research explores the way that these choices are affected by the body type of the other person eating.
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Health care reform: Influx of newly insured may overwhelm Utah docs
A sudden influx of the newly insured, experts warn, could overwhelm a system already stretched too thin.
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7/12/09 Abnormal Test Results May Not Get to Patients: Seeking Natural Remedies for Hot Flashes
Abnormal Test Results May Not Get to Patients: If you think your doctor will automatically tell you if you have an abnormal test result, think again. Researchers studying office procedures among primary care physicians found evidence that more than 7 percent of clinically significant findings were never reported to the patient. Seeking Natural Remedies for Hot Flashes: AFTER six years on a prescription estrogen patch that alleviated her hot flashes, but did nothing to address her midlife 25-pound weight gain, Martha B. started searching for a natural alternative to treat her menopausal symptoms.
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6/28/09 Heart Disease Symptoms Differ Between Sexes: Health Reform Should Mean Personal Responsibility
Heart Disease Symptoms Differ Between Sexes: Women’s heart disease develops differently than men’s and often progresses over a much longer period of time. Health Reform Should Mean Personal Responsibility: (Op Ed) Insuring those whose life styles degrade good health should not be supported by public funds without reciprocal efforts toward prevention and early diagnosis.
