Topic: United States

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare, comparative research made physicians realize that inducing early childbirth in healthy women created unnecessary and costly risks for newborns.Artificially induced deliveries had become an accepted way to make childbirth fit busy personal schedules. The practice ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medicaid, a government health insurance program designed to help the poorest of the poor, is giving people unprecedented access to doctors and also improving their finances, a study co-authored by the Harvard School of Public Health has found.The study, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medicare will continue coverage of Roche Holdings' drug Avastin for breast cancer regardless of what U.S. health regulators decide about the medicine, a spokesperson for the U.S. health insurer said."The FDA decision, when it comes, does not affect CMS," ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hospitals in the U.S. territories see more deaths after heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia than the states, according to a study out Tuesday.Researchers said the healthcare gap is not explained by patients being sicker or hospitals ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than five million Medicare recipients have used preventive healthcare services to date in 2011, and U.S. health officials are trying to accelerate that trend to combat crippling healthcare costs.The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is launching ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Humana Inc said on Friday that it would be willing to continue insurance coverage for Illinois state employees and retirees another 90 days, even though the state has announced plans to remove it as an option for workers ...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Lawyers for President Barack Obama sought on Wednesday to stave off the biggest legal challenge yet to healthcare reform, his signature domestic policy achievement.The administration presented oral arguments as it appealed a ruling by a Florida judge who declared ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Deficit-reduction negotiators have identified broad areas for saving hundreds of billions of dollars but still disagree on changing the costly but popular Medicare program, a source familiar with the talks said on Wednesday.Vice President Joe Biden and a bipartisan ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hospitals that improve medical care for elderly patients, and reduce deadly errors, will get millions of dollars under an incentive program launched on Friday that aims to cut overall Medicare costs.The government healthcare program for seniors spent about $4.4 ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Heart devices known as drug-eluting stents have added as much as $1.57 billion to U.S. health costs since their introduction in 2003, U.S. researchers said on Monday.The study offers an illustration of how new technology can drive health costs, ...