PCMA: Minnesota is First in the Nation to Require E-Prescribing
Physicians Treating Minnesota State Employees Must Use E-Prescribing by 2011 WASHINGTON, August 20, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a signal of momentum for greater use...

Lack of health care and prescription drug insurance in the United States: a serious public health problem
Lack of health care and prescription drug insurance in the United States: a serious public health problem General statistics Sources: 'Health Care Coverage in America: Understanding the Issues...

Health Insurance Premiums Skyrocket
TUESDAY, April 29 -- Employer-based health insurance premiums have skyrocketed at a pace that far exceeds the rate of American wage increases since 2000, a new study reveals. According to an analysis...

Sens. Grassley, Kohl Say Public Should Know When Pharmaceutical Makers Give Money to Doctors
...September 6, 2007 Mr. Grassley. Mr. President, a month ago I outlined an important issue affecting all Americans who take prescription drugs or use medical devices the need for greater transparency in the money that drug and device companies hand out to doctors. Today, I am pleased to introduce the...

Retail Medical Clinics Offer Quality Care: Study
...Surveys of patients who received care at retails clinics have been positive, he added. Mehrotra's research team analyzed information contained in insurance claims of 2,100 Minnesotans between 2005 and 2006. The study authors chose the three diagnoses because they made up a combined 40 percent of...

Health Highlights: Dec. 4, 2008
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: Alzheimer's Drug May Help Brain Cancer Patients An experimental Alzheimer's drug may be effective...

Health Highlights: Dec. 4, 2008
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: Bed Sore-Related Hospitalizations Up 80 Percent: Report Between 1993 and 2006 there was an...

Health Highlights: Dec. 3, 2008
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: Americans' Health May Decline: Report Americans' health improved by 18 percent between 1990...

Family Income Impacts Children's Health
...educated families and everyone else,' she said. 'The report spotlights poverty as a cause of ill health in kids, and downplays the role of health insurance,' said Steffie Woolhandler, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and co-founder of Physicians For A National Health Program....

Health Highlights: Feb. 21, 2008
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: CDC Investigating First U.S. Cases of Ciprofloxacin-Resistant Meningitis The first known U.S....

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