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ER Waiting Times Tripled Since 1997
ER Waiting Times Tripled Since 1997
Jan 16, 2008 4:51 PM CST

ER Waiting Times Tripled Since 1997

Average waits for heart attack patients rose from 8 to 20 minutes

(Newser) - With emergency room visits and hospital overcrowding on the rise, waiting times have grown dangerously long—36% longer than they were in 1997. A new study in medical journal Health Affairs cites especially troubling waits for heart attack victims, with 25% waiting at least 50 minutes to see a doctor...

Candidates Talk Health Care, But Not Their Own

Most GOP hopefuls keep mum on their personal coverage

(Newser) - With health insurance heating up campaign trails, NPR takes a look at how the candidates are covered, and finds not all of them forthcoming. Sitting senators are eligible for a federal plan, which is good but no panacea—packed with co-pays and deductibles. John Edwards reports he and his family...

Democrats Rush to Silver State
Democrats Rush to Silver State
Jan 9, 2008 4:37 PM CST

Democrats Rush to Silver State

Nevada's Jan. 19 caucus being recast as Obama-Clinton tiebreaker

(Newser) - With the Democratic race tied at a victory apiece for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, a new front-runner will be crowned in Nevada's Jan. 19 caucus—and both campaigns are charging in. Health care, the foreclosure crisis and the environment are big issues; both teams are running Spanish-language radio spots...

Was Company at Fault in Teen's Death?

Edwards champions cause of young patient, but case is not clear

(Newser) - Seventeen-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan, who died waiting for a liver transplant in December, has become the poster girl for John Edwards' call for a government-run health plan. Insurance giant Cigna denied her family's claim for the procedure, then reversed its decision a month later. She died shortly thereafter. But the story...

Safari With That Liposuction?
Safari With That Liposuction?
Jan 3, 2008 4:57 PM CST

Safari With That Liposuction?

Cosmetic surgeries can be cheaper abroad—and come with perks

(Newser) - Americans looking to get cosmetic surgery are eschewing expensive procedures at home and opting for "medical tourism," traveling abroad for cheaper procedures—that sometime come with exotic vacation perks. Countries including South Africa, Argentina, Thailand, Brazil and Singapore are marketing their health services to Americans with the promise...

Edwards Talks Tough on Iraq, Business

Plans to pull all troops out of Iraq; stop corporate abuses

(Newser) - John Edwards is turning up the heat in the countdown to Iowa, considered do-or-die for his campaign. He tells the New York Times that he would be the president quickest to bring American troops home from Iraq, pulling them all out—including those providing training and support for the Iraqi...

Huckabee Hasn't Put Down the Mic
Huckabee Hasn't Put
Down the Mic
Dec 27, 2007 9:40 AM CST

Huckabee Hasn't Put Down the Mic

Unlike presidential rivals, ex-governor still giving paid speeches

(Newser) - As the presidential race heats up, candidates from both parties have backed off their lucrative speaking engagements, but not Mike Huckabee, the Politico says. The pastor-turned-frontrunner has been making the rounds at universities, charging $25,000 per speech. “If I don’t work, I don’t eat,” Huckabee...

'They Took My Daughter Away From Me'

Family plans to sue insurer after teen dies awaiting liver transplant

(Newser) - The family of a 17-year-old whose insurer had refused to OK a liver transplant plans to sue the company in the wake of the girl's death, the Los Angeles Times reports. Leukemia patient Nataline Sarkisyan died after Cigna HealthCare refused to fund the transplant despite doctors’ recommendations. After online and...

Gates Charity Creates New African Woes

AIDS dollars distort fragile health systems, undermining basic care

(Newser) - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given $8.5 billion to global health causes and is slowly defeating AIDS in Africa, but it’s creating unexpected new problems for the continent, the LA Times reports. By pouring money into the treatment of AIDS, TB and malaria, it has lured...

Docs on Ethics: Do as I Say, Not as I Do

Colleagues' lapses often go unreported, MDs acknowledge

(Newser) - Doctors often don't practice what they preach, reports a groundbreaking new study. Ethical standards under scrutiny in a survey of 1,600 physicians were almost universally supported but were often overlooked, researchers say. For example, 96% of respondents said doctors should report colleagues' incompetence or impairment, but 45% said they...

FCC Gives Boost to 'Telehealth'
FCC Gives Boost to 'Telehealth'
Nov 21, 2007 12:04 PM CST

FCC Gives Boost to 'Telehealth'

$417M in grants will bring broadband to rural hospitals

(Newser) - High-speed Internet access funded by $417 million in FCC grants will change how healthcare is provided in rural or heard-to-reach areas across the US, bringing top-end clinical and diagnostic resourced to underserved patients and doctors, the Washington Post reports. Some 6,000 clinics, hospitals, research facilities and universities will be...

Serbs Reject Charges of Patient Abuse

Government disputes group's claim that disabled are neglected, tortured

(Newser) - Officials in Serbia today called "dark propaganda" a report by a US human-rights group that alleged patients with mental and physical disabilities were systematically abused, and that staff at one facility tortured retarded children. "We may be suffering staffing and financial problems," one administrator said, "but...

Congress Defies Bush on Funds
Congress Defies Bush on Funds
Nov 9, 2007 2:40 AM CST

Congress Defies Bush on Funds

House votes $10 billion for domestic programs White house seeks to ax

(Newser) - The Democratic-controlled Congress has approved an extra $10 billion for education and health care, daring the White House to veto the extra funding for popular domestic programs that President Bush seeks to cut. The vote came as the Senate dealt the White House its first veto override on a water...

Firms Help Workers Kick Butts
Firms Help Workers Kick Butts
Oct 26, 2007 10:40 AM CDT

Firms Help Workers Kick Butts

Seeking savings, employers offer programs, incentives

(Newser) - Smoking, everybody's favorite target, is now drawing fire from employers looking to cut medical costs by helping workers kick the habit, the New York Times reports. Employers gain significantly when employees quit, because a typical smoker racks up $16,000 in additional lifetime medical costs and saps productivity with smoking...

Vodka Was the Best Medicine
Vodka Was the Best Medicine
Oct 11, 2007 5:32 AM CDT

Vodka Was the Best Medicine

Aussie docs save tourist's life with alcohol drip

(Newser) - Doctors have long recommended a glass of red wine for a healthy heart; but vodka apparently can also do a body good. After running out of medicinal alcohol, doctors in an Australian hospital set up a vodka drip as an antidote to save the life of a poisoned Italian tourist,...

Arnie Vows to Make Health Insurance Mandatory

Bill provides coverage to all Californians

(Newser) - Arnold Schwarzenegger introduced legislation yesterday to provide health insurance to the nearly 7 million Californians without it. Under his plan, all residents would be required to buy insurance, and the state would help low-income people pay for it. Businesses would have to provide insurance or help subsidize it. To help...

White House Ready to Deal on Kids' Health

Leavitt says he'll work with Democrats on insurance bill

(Newser) - The White House will work with Democrats toward a compromise on children's health insurance, Health Secretary Michael Leavitt said today. "If it takes more money, we'll put it up," he said, though he didn't specify how much. Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi is trying to get the 14 GOP votes...

Aussie Miscarriage Fiasco Leads to Calls for Reform

PM on defensive after miscarriage horror in Sydney

(Newser) - Reports of Australian women left to miscarry in the bathroom of a major Sydney hospital have elicited an outcry for public health reform, even as beleaguered prime minister John Howard defended the system as flawed but good. But an ER physician at the hospital told ABC News that there were...

Dems Stonewall on Pullout Deadline
Dems Stonewall on
Pullout Deadline
Sep 27, 2007 6:51 AM CDT

Dems Stonewall on Pullout Deadline

Obama, Edwards, Clinton won't guarantee withdrawal by 2013

(Newser) - None of the three leading Democratic White House contenders were willing last night to guarantee that they would get US troops out of Iraq by 2013. During a Democratic debate at Dartmouth College, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards—who all support a timetable for troop withdrawal—each declined...

Bush Blasts Dems' Expanded Child Health Bill

Prez threatens veto despite bipartisan support in Senate

(Newser) - President Bush threatened to veto a children's health insurance bill today, knocking Democrats he said were politicizing the issue by moving too far toward universal health care. The Senate last month passed an expanded "S-chip" program that would cover an additional 4 million children currently uninsured, the New York ...

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