Posts Tagged ‘care’

First Set of New Health Care Changes to Kick In
Initial Provisions of New Health Care Law Could Help About 1 Million of the Uninsured Have Coverage by 2011

AHRQ And Ad Council Encourage Men To Take Preventive Steps In Their Health Care
Men are 24 percent less likely than women to have visited the doctor within the past year, according to new data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). In addition, men are about 30 percent more likely than women to be hospitalized for preventable conditions such as congestive heart failure and complications from diabetes …

Health Literacy Missouri leads effort to educate on health care
COLUMBIA — Martin Ratermann has told his story many times — twice before a sizable crowd.  But in a crowded conference room Tuesday, he still teared up as he recalled again the medical nightmare from which he’s only recently emerged. Doctors diagnosed Ratermann with stage 4 rectal cancer in July 2008. It was a cancer that was preventable, he said, but seven years of symptom dismissal by both him …

Washington leaders bring health care debate home
Health care has been at the center of a heated debate for months. President Obama signed the bill in March, but some people still wonder: what does it mean? Rep. Jim Clyburn, one of the leaders in passing the bill, came to Augusta to explain.

Andrew Grant-Thomas, Ph.D.: Race-ing the gap between good health care coverage and great health
The recently passed health care reform bill, formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, will do much to support the health of…