Most People Dismiss Early Signs of Cancer: PLOS ONE Study
December 3rd 2014People could be putting their lives at risk by dismissing potential warning signs of cancer as less serious symptoms, according to a Cancer Research UK-funded study published in PLOS ONE. The survey found that nearly 97% of people with symptoms failed to act on them.
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Integrated Health Benefits Plans Gaining Attention
December 2nd 2014Employers and employees are seeing eye-to-eye when it comes to integrated health benefits. Not only do employees see how an integrated plan can improve quality of care and health, but employers see how it makes good business sense.
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NIH Visit to Highlight Progress With GSK on Ebola Vaccine
December 2nd 2014President Obama is scheduled to visit NIH today to highlight recent results on a potential Ebola vaccine, developed with GlaxoSmithKline. He is expected to call on Congress to pass a $6.2 billion package to combat the current crisis and prevent future outbreaks.
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On World AIDS Day, Advocates Mark "Tipping Point" Amid Complaints About Drug Prices in US
December 1st 2014On World AIDS Day, advocates mark "the beginning of the end" of the pandemic. In the United States, 2014 has been marked by battles between patient advocacy groups and some payers over the price of generic HIV drugs on exchanges under the Affordable Care Act.
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HealthCare.gov's Insurance Marketplace for Small Businesses Off to a Slow Start
December 1st 2014The part of HealthCare.gov intended for small businesses opened with reports of only modest technical flaws-but with doubts that it will soon benefit the millions of workers at little companies with inadequate health insurance or none at all.
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US Hospitals Wary of Caring for Ebola Patients Because of Cost and Stigma
November 30th 2014US officials trying to set up a network of hospitals in this country to care for Ebola patients are running into reluctance from facilities worried about steep costs, unwanted attention, and the possibility of scaring away other patients.
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Civil Unrest in Ferguson Tests St. Louis Area Hospitals
November 30th 2014Hospitals in the St. Louis area braced for another violent night Tuesday after at least 25 people were injured in riots triggered by a grand jury's decision not to indict Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown.
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Optimizing Healthcare: Professor Timothy Chan on the Centre for Healthcare Engineering
November 29th 2014Providing healthcare to millions of people requires a hugely complex system of hospitals, clinics, ambulances, research centers, suppliers, and governments-and that system needs re-engineering.
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A 2-Drug Combination Successfully Thwarts Colorectal Cancer
November 29th 2014A study by the University of Colorado Cancer Center published in the journal PLoS ONE and concurrent phase I clinical trial is examining a new strategy: targeting both important cancer-causing pathways simultaneously.
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Improvement on Medical Errors "Not Enough"
November 29th 2014The healthcare industry has made progress in reducing medical errors over the past 15 years, but it's not enough, according to Molly Joel Coye, MD, chief innovation officer of UCLA Health at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Specialty Drugs a Rising Healthcare Cost
November 28th 2014Early this week, Novation, a healthcare services company that oversees supply chain management, called on Genentech to reverse its decision to use only specialty drug distributors instead of wholesale distributors for its widely used anticancer treatments, Avastin, Rituxan, and Herceptin.
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