Category: Psychology & Psychiatry
New law means higher deductibles, steeper co-pays and other restrictions are no longer allowed for mental health and substance abuse treatment.
New rules to protect your prescription information Information collected with your prescriptions, including your name, the drug and its dosage but your address and social security number, can be sold without your knowledge or permission, New York Times reporter Milt Freudenheim writes in today’s paper. Freudenheim writes: That may change if some little-noted protections from [...]
New Yorker article required reading at White House Robert Pear reports in today’s New York Times that an article in the New Yorker magazine has dramatically affected President Barack Obama’s thinking about health care reform. Pear writes: “President Obama recently summoned aides to the Oval Office to discuss a magazine article investigating why the border town [...]
Next June, UWTV will add six new lectures to its psychology lecture series. The talks, which will be broadcast and podcast, will include two talks each on addiction and the mind, social networks, and language and the brain. The series, the Allen L. Edwards Psychology Lectures, is made possible by a bequest from Professor Edwards. You can [...]
2007 was a slightly safer year in Seattle and King County, according to the King County Medical Examiner’s office. According to the Medical Examiners 2007 annual report, deaths due to homicide fell in King County from 91 in 2006 to 76 in 2007 and deaths due to suicide fell slightly, from 227 to 223. Most [...]
Sugar causes hyperactivity in children, yes? — No. Suicides increase over the holidays, yes? — No. Poinsettias are poisonous, yes? — No. You lose most of your body heat through your head, yes? — No, again Eating at night makes you fatter, yes? — No. You can cure or prevent an hangover, yes? — Unfortunately, no. Those, at least, are the [...]
hile most women who survive breast cancer find a way to deal with the emotional and psychological aspects of having the disease and put the experience behind them, about one in ten will continue to struggle for many years to understand why they developed cancer, Seattle researchers report in the current issue of the journal Women & 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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