Category: Lab Tests & Diagnostics
Seattle startup Corengi’s matches type II diabetics with clinical trials.
AHRQ’s “Men: Stay Healthy at Any Age” covers the screening tests to get, whether you need medicines to prevent diseases, and steps you can take for good health.
Starting next year, doctors who refer Medicare and Medicaid patients to in-house imaging machines must disclose in writing that they own the equipment.
Listen to examples of deceptive or dangerous marketing used by genetic testing companies, obtained through undercover contact and telephone calls.
A funny thing happens when a computer challenges orders for medical scans that aren’t likely to help: Doctors often drop the test requests.
An analysis of lung cancer screening results in 3,200 people finds that 21% to 33% of the suspicious nodules found by CT scans are not really cancer.
Did FDA ignore warnings on CT scan radiation danger? Must insurers cover children with pre-existing illnesses? Are the lawsuits against the new health law justified or bogus?
People don’t always want to do what the data say to do.
This is not the first time that breast cancer has become a big political issue.
For most cases, doctors say, that Dr. House’s style of “shotgun testing” — a barrage of seemingly random tests — would do little to help patients or lead to a diagnosis, reports KaiserHealthNews staff writer Christopher Weaver.
OPINION: Joseph Califano, Chairman of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University As President Obama and Congress struggle to bend the rising cost curve in order to make health care available to all Americans, the history of the first great expansion of health care coverage when Lyndon Johnson drove Medicare and [...]
By Phil Galewitz – Kaiser Health News August 4, 2009 If there is one thing that both parties can agree on in the health overhaul debate, it’s the need to build a health system that promotes prevention rather than just manages disease. To do that, legislation being debated in Congress requires Medicare and private health [...]
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Lost in translation: Lack of trained interpreters can lead to medical errors
Interpreter services at hospitals and other medical settings are often inadequate, forcing family members, including children, to step in, or the task falls to medical staff members who may not speak the language well.
Some insurers deny ER coverage to people who have been drinking
Laws in more than half the states permit insurers to deny payment for medical services related to alcohol or drug use. Faced with the prospect of not getting paid for care, some ER personnel sidestep the problem by simply not testing patients’ blood or urine for alcohol.
Travel insurance can protect your wallet — and your health on vacation
Think your regular health insurance policy will cover you if you get into medical trouble overseas?
Don’t bet on it.
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