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Christine Vestal (Stateline)
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Monday, 09 April 2012
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Greenwich, CT, USA. While most states are banking on managed care to hold down Medicaid costs, Connecticut has returned to directly reimbursing health care providers.
Anyone familiar with Medicaid’s financial woes will tell you that the traditional way of paying health providers the so-called fee-for-service method is a big part of the problem.
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 Jim Malewitz (Stateline) Friday, 30 March 2012 Washington, DC, USA. Federal budget cuts worry state officials who depend on aid to help combat cancer-causing radon gas, naturally produced as uranium decays in soil.
A dry cough, a small pain in her shoulder blade it was probably just allergies, Liz Hoffmann thought before a doctor’s visit in 2003. But a chest X-ray soon told a different story. A 5-centimeter mass was growing in her left lung.
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 TS-Si News Service Tuesday, 27 March 2012 Columbus, OH, USA. Can science explain why people enjoy tragedies that make them sad, even though philosophers have struggled with the question throughout recorded history?
People enjoy watching a film with tragic dimensions, such as Titanic because they deliver what may seem to be an unlikely benefit: tragedies actually make people happier in the short-term.
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 TS-Si News Service Saturday, 24 March 2012 Wageningen, The Netherlands. Researchers have found that strong aromas lead to smaller bite sizes, suggesting that aroma may be used as a means to control portion size. Bite size depends on the familiarly and texture of food.
Research shows that smaller bite sizes are taken for foods which need more chewing and smaller bite sizes are often linked to a sensation of feeling fuller sooner.
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 TS-Si News Service Monday, 19 March 2012 Phoenix, AZ, USA. The way information is presented online specifically, the order in which symptoms are listed makes a significant difference on how individuals make decisions about their health.
For a set of symptoms presented as a sequence, if the person checks off more symptoms in a row, the research found, they perceive a higher personal risk of having that illness.
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 TS-Si News Service Thursday, 15 March 2012 San Diego, CA, USA. Men and women of all ages, as shown by a range of measures for both Caucasians and minorities, exhibit irritability and aggression when consuming dietary trans fatty acids (dTFAs).
The study of nearly 1,000 men and women provides the first evidence linking dTFAs with adverse behaviors that impacted others, ranging from impatience to overt aggression.
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 TS-Si News Service Saturday, 04 February 2012 Washington, DC, USA. This Sunday, an estimated 58 percent of Americans will order pizza for Super Bowl parties around the country. Wisconsin supplies 35 percent of the country's cheese, used in Game Day classics like pizza, cheese dips and nachos.
To help celebrate the cheese fest that accompanies the Super Bowl, the world's largest scientific society, the American Chemical Society (ACS), released a video on the chemistry behind what American literati Clifton Fadiman once described as milk's le |
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 Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Tuesday, 17 January 2012 Boston, MA, USA. Dozens of studies, many from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers, have shown that low-fat diets are no better for health than moderate- or high-fat diets and for many people, may be worse.
To combat this "low fat is best" myth, nutrition experts at HSPH and chefs and registered dietitians at The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) have developed five new muffin recipes that incorporate healthy fats and whole grains, and use a lighter hand on the salt and s |
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 TS-Si News Service Thursday, 12 January 2012 Portland, OR, USA. Older women who have lost more than two inches in height face an increased risk of breaking bones and dying, according to a new study published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.
The study found that women 65 and older who lost more than two inches over 15 years were 50 percent more likely to both fracture a bone and to die in the subsequent five years, compared to women who lost less than two inches in height.
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 Matt McKillop and Christine Vestal (Stateline) Tuesday, 03 January 2012 Washington, DC, USA. Ever since the Affordable Care Act passed, states have worried that the federal government would set a rigid national standard for health benefits. Now it's clear that won't happen.
A linchpin of the 2010 federal health law is the requirement that nearly everyone sign up for a health insurance plan whether it’s Medicaid, other federally subsidized insurance, or private coverage.
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 TS-Si News Service Wednesday, 21 December 2011 New York, NY, USA. Despite reports that Christopher Columbus brought Treponemal infections (such as syphilis) to the New World, a detailed review says that solid evidence remains absent that the Old World was the origin for the disease.
In fact, the skeletal data bolsters the case that syphilis did not exist in Europe before Columbus set sail on his explorations.
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