UnitedHealth Group and Cisco have launched Connected Care, a national tele-health network linking patients by video and audio to the insurer's 590,000 doctors. A seven-month San Jose pilot drew a 90 percent recommendation rating; a mobile unit is planned for New Mexico.
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Wal-Mart's employee healthcare plan "too expensive"
Wal-Mart backed an employer-funded health care requirement in a letter to President Obama written with the SEIU and the Center for American Progress, yet only 51.8 percent of its 1.4 million employees take its plan. One manager said it cost her $400 a month, more than she could afford.
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Why California Needs Health Reform
A fact sheet on California's health costs: 19.7 million residents get coverage at work, where family premiums average $13,297 and have risen 114 percent since 2000. Nineteen percent are uninsured, and families and businesses carry about $1,400 a year in hidden costs for them.
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Timing of cardiac arrest critical for optimal care
A study in JAMA found 14.7 percent of people survived cardiac arrest in hospital at night or on weekends, against about 20 percent during the day. The gap held everywhere but the emergency room, and researchers point to thinner staffing at off-peak hours.
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Medical treatment vs medical freedom
Daniel Hauser, 13, who has Hodgkin's lymphoma and refuses chemotherapy citing religious beliefs, missed a court hearing on his welfare. A Minnesota judge issued an arrest warrant for his mother Colleen and ordered the boy into foster care and to a pediatric oncologist.
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Experts back away from annual PSA test
New American Urological Association guidelines offer PSA testing to well-informed men aged 40 and older with a 10-year life expectancy, drop the fixed blood-level cutoff and weigh family history. False or inconsistent results can lead to surgery risking impotence and incontinence.
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Thyroid cancer linked to radiation exposure, more studies confirm
Toronto researchers examined 125 thyroid surgery patients, all exposed to radiation at least three years before diagnosis, and found more aggressive disease than in unexposed patients. More than half had been exposed through other medical procedures.
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Medical procedures may expose infants to BPA
Researchers reanalysed urine from 54 premature infants in neonatal intensive care to measure BPA, triclosan, methyl and propyl paraben and benzophenone-3. In earlier work on the same samples, DEHP metabolite levels tracked the variety, invasiveness and duration of each infant's procedures.
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Medical errors common in hospitals
A HealthGrades study of Medicare patients at 5,000 hospitals counted more than 900,000 patient safety events from 2005 to 2007 — one every 1.7 minutes — and 97,755 in-hospital deaths among affected patients, plus $6.9 billion in wasted cost. Seven of 15 indicators worsened.
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