Mayor de Blasio Signs Sweeping Legislation to Curb Smoking, Tobacco Usage
Release Date:
08/29/2017
Mayor Bill de Blasio signed a series of bills to help reduce the number of smokers in New York City by 160,000 by 2020.
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Trump’s Threats on Health Law Hide an Upside: Gains Made by Some Insurers
Release Date:
08/29/2017
Despite earlier indications that insurance companies would stop offering coverage under the law in large parts of the country, insurers have now agreed to sell policies everywhere.
Holistic Therapy Programs May Help Pain Sufferers Ditch Opioids
Release Date:
08/29/2017
Mayo's pain program is one of a few around the country to address the emotional, social and psychological aspects of pain and reduce patients' reliance on addictive medicines. But as the nation faces an opioid epidemic, there needs to be more of...
Russell Sage Foundation to Publish Book on Home Health Care Work: Shouldn’t It Be Work Worth Doing?
Release Date:
08/29/2017
How to provide long-term care for a fast-aging population poses one of the more convoluted challenges of the American labor market. In his new book, “Who Will Care For Us?,” to be published next month by the Russell Sage Foundation, MIT Professor...
Simons Foundation Building Research Database of People With Autism
Release Date:
08/29/2017
The Simons Foundation has created a project called “SPARK” or the Simons Foundation Powering Autism Research for Knowledge.
Hilton Foundation Follows a Familiar—and Promising—Playbook in Tackling a Debilitating Disease
Release Date:
08/29/2017
About 1 in 750 people have a chance of contracting MS, which is a debilitating disease of the nervous system. Current research suggests that the condition is triggered by an environmental event among people already genetically predisposed to...
CareConnect Pulling Out Of New York Insurance Market
Release Date:
08/28/2017
CareConnect, the health insurance company started by Northwell Health, has asked state permission to withdraw from the individual and small group market, the latest evidence of how hard it can be for new companies to compete with legacy players in...
The Commonwealth Fund Reports on Medicaid Expansion's Effect on Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending for Low-Income Families
Release Date:
08/25/2017
The Commonwealth Fund recently released a study using data from the federal Consumer Expenditure Survey to examine how states’ participation in the Medicaid expansion affected families’ health care spending.
United Hospital Fund Report Examines Ramifications of Eligible Adults Refusing Prescribed Home Health Care
Release Date:
08/24/2017
The report includes a fear of losing control and privacy, concerns about finances, and the belief that family caregivers alone were both skilled and had time enough to do the job as reasons for folks refusing home care.
Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute Joins IBM and Others including Citizens in the Microbiome Immunity Project
Release Date:
08/23/2017
The general public's help is being enlisted in what's thought to be the biggest study of the human microbiome—the bacteria that live in and on the human body –and are believed to affect health.
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