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Christine Vestal (Stateline)
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Monday, 06 February 2012
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Augusta, ME, USA. Medicaid spending is a matter of urgency almost everywhere in the country right now, but in few places is the urgency as palpable as it is here. The Medicaid program in Maine is short of money, and conservative Governor Paul LePage has a blunt proposal for solving the problem — drop people from the rolls.
The Maine governor refers to the federal-state health insurance program for the poor as “welfare,” says it’s necessary to eliminate coverage for 65,000 adults, and wants to stop paying room and board for some 2,000 elders who live in group homes.
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 TS-Si News Service Saturday, 04 February 2012 Washington, DC, USA. This Sunday, an estimated 58 percent of Americans will order pizza for Super Bowl parties around the country. Wisconsin supplies 35 percent of the country's cheese, used in Game Day classics like pizza, cheese dips and nachos.
To help celebrate the cheese fest that accompanies the Super Bowl, the world's largest scientific society, the American Chemical Society (ACS), released a video on the chemistry behind what American literati Clifton Fadiman once described as milk's le |
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 Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Tuesday, 17 January 2012 Boston, MA, USA. Dozens of studies, many from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers, have shown that low-fat diets are no better for health than moderate- or high-fat diets — and for many people, may be worse.
To combat this "low fat is best" myth, nutrition experts at HSPH and chefs and registered dietitians at The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) have developed five new muffin recipes that incorporate healthy fats and whole grains, and use a lighter hand on the salt and s |
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 TS-Si News Service Thursday, 12 January 2012 Portland, OR, USA. Older women who have lost more than two inches in height face an increased risk of breaking bones and dying, according to a new study published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.
The study found that women 65 and older who lost more than two inches over 15 years were 50 percent more likely to both fracture a bone and to die in the subsequent five years, compared to women who lost less than two inches in height.
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 Matt McKillop and Christine Vestal (Stateline) Tuesday, 03 January 2012 Washington, DC, USA. Ever since the Affordable Care Act passed, states have worried that the federal government would set a rigid national standard for health benefits. Now it's clear that won't happen.
A linchpin of the 2010 federal health law is the requirement that nearly everyone sign up for a health insurance plan — whether it’s Medicaid, other federally subsidized insurance, or private coverage.
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 TS-Si News Service Wednesday, 21 December 2011 New York, NY, USA. Despite reports that Christopher Columbus brought Treponemal infections (such as syphilis) to the New World, a detailed review says that solid evidence remains absent that the Old World was the origin for the disease.
In fact, the skeletal data bolsters the case that syphilis did not exist in Europe before Columbus set sail on his explorations.
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Christine Vestal (Stateline) Thursday, 08 December 2011 |
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 The Commonwealth Fund Thursday, 17 November 2011 New York, NY, USA. Premiums for employer-sponsored family health insurance increased by 50 percent from 2003 to 2010, and the annual amount that employees pay toward their insurance increased by 63 percent as businesses required employees to contribute a greater share, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report that examines state trends in health insurance costs.
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 TS-Si News Service Tuesday, 01 November 2011 Gothenburg, Sweden. Old people today have more sex, are more likely to be divorced, tend to be more clever, and feel better, reveals a long-term research project comparing what it is like to be old today with 30 years ago.
The number of elderly is rising worldwide, and it is estimated that average life expectancy in Europe will reach 100 by the end of the century. At the same time, old age and what we expect from it are changing.
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 Christine Vestal (Stateline) Friday, 28 October 2011 Salem, OR, USA. Long before the national health law was enacted last year, a handful of states started work on their own health care overhauls. The new system in Oregon is designed to be a throwback to the days of old-fashioned family doctors.
Massachusetts became the first state to require health coverage for all; it was the model for President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Vermont has enacted a unique, state-based method of financing health care.
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 Christine Vestal (Stateline) Wednesday, 19 October 2011 Washington, DC, USA. The federal health law’s controversial Medicaid expansion is expected to add billions to states’ already overburdened Medicaid budgets. But it also offers a rarely discussed cost-cutting opportunity for state corrections agencies.
Starting in 2014, virtually all state prison inmates could be eligible for Medicaid coverage of hospital stays—at the expense of the federal government.
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 TS-Si News Service Saturday, 15 October 2011 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. New research shows how resistance to the hormone leptin, produced by the body in response to increasing fat deposits, can become a key causal component of obesity.
The health and monetary effects of obesity are well known, and now, scientists are getting closer to understanding how the disease progresses, providing clues for future treatments.
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Christine Vestal (Stateline) Thursday, 07 July 2011 |
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