Health News

April 16, 2007
Gay Men have Higher Prevalence of Eating Disorders

From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Gay and bisexual men may be at far higher risk for eating disorders than heterosexual men, according to a study conducted at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. In the first population-based study of...

Diet and Lifestyle -- In the Cancer Fight, Eating Well is the Best Revenge

From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: We all know that eating fruits, vegetables and soy products provides essential nutrition for a healthy lifestyle, while obesity leads to the opposite. Now, in laboratory experiments, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles,...

AARP Says It Will Become Major Medicare Insurer

From New York Times: AARP, the lobby for older Americans, announced Monday that it would become a major participant in the nation's health insurance market, offering a health maintenance organization to Medicare recipients and several other products to people 50...

Revolving Door for Addicts Adds to Medicaid Cost

From New York Times: Through its Medicaid program, New York spends far more than other states on drug and alcohol treatment, including more than $300 million a year paid to hospitals for more than 30,000 detox patients. One reason for...

Childhood obesity among Quebec Cree raises concerns

From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Childhood obesity is increasing among the general population in Canada, but the statistics are even more alarming among First Nations, Inuit and Metis children. In a study published recently in the American Journal of Public...

April 12, 2007
People Who Are Severely Overweight Are Fastest Increasing Group of Obese Americans

RAND: The proportion of Americans who are severely obese --- about 100 pounds or more overweight --- increased by 50 percent from 2000 to 2005, twice as fast as the growth seen in moderate obesity, according to a RAND Corporation...

April 10, 2007
Report reveals estimated high prevalence and heavy cost of type 2 diabetes complications

From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: A first-of-its-kind report looking at the prevalence and cost of type 2 diabetes complications shows that an estimated three out of five people (57.9 percent) with type 2 diabetes have at least one of the...

SeniorCare to Lose Federal Funding

From washingtonpost.com: The program created by Wisconsin five years ago to help low-income seniors get prescription drugs serves 104,000 people and, state officials say, has saved the federal government $669 million in Medicaid costs. Jim Doyle (D) and seniors advocates...

Guns in homes strongly associated with higher rates of suicide

From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: In the first nationally representative study to examine the relationship between survey measures of household firearm ownership and state level rates of suicide in the U.S., researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)...

April 05, 2007
HHS Approves Iowa As First To Add Home And Community-Based Services To Medicaid State Plan

HHS News Release: Iowa is the first state to receive federal approval to add home and community based services (HCBS) as a permanent feature of its Medicaid plan, eliminating the need for repeated requests for time-limited waivers, HHS Secretary Mike...