by Research Team | Dec 11, 2014 | Health News
In this May 14, 2014 file photo, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, then-President Barack Obamas nominee to become secretary of Health and Human Services testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Doctors caring for low-income patients are facing a steep fee cut next year as a...
by Research Team | Dec 10, 2014 | Health News
Labour is promising to establish a A 330 million cancer treatments fund to improve access to cutting-edge surgery and radiotherapy as well as the latest drugs if it gains power in next year’s general election. Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham says the fund...
by Research Team | Dec 10, 2014 | Health News
Oregon is planning to transfer an online Medicaid enrollment system from Kentucky after giving up on its own troubled software. Kentucky’s health insurance exchange, kynect, has been applauded as a success story.
by Research Team | Dec 10, 2014 | Health News
Researchers are reporting what appears to be another adverse effect of the drug tramadol, an opioid that’s being increasingly prescribed by doctors for the treatment of pain. Known possible effects of tramadol, sold in Canada under a number of brand and generic...
by Research Team | Dec 10, 2014 | Health News
” The Cuban doctors were all fired up and raring to get to work: Fidel Castro had praised their commitment and urged them to work even with American troops who might otherwise be considered the enemy, and President Raul Castro came to the airport to wish them...
by Research Team | Dec 10, 2014 | Health News
One important difference is in the rates of survival. The study found that while survival for men with breast cancer has improved, it hasn’t kept pace with the strides made in treating breast cancer in women.
