Health insurance company Health Net Inc. rewarded employees for finding ways to drop customer policies and not pay for their medical expenses, according to an investigation by the California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC).
Since 2005, the DMHC has been investigating five of the seven insurance companies that provide health care plans to individuals in California. The department is attempting to crack down on the practice among insurers of dropping people's coverage based on often accidental errors in their enrollment applications. In many cases, people's policies have been dropped after they submitted medical claims.
High vitamin D concentration in the blood is not associated with a reduced risk of prostate cancer, researchers report in an article published online May 27 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Laboratory studies suggested that high doses of vitamin D may reduce the risk of prostate cancer, but epidemiological studies that have examined the relationship have reported inconsistent results.
WASHINGTON - Why fight the proliferation of video games if you can use them to improve the nation's health? Health researchers are looking at ways that people's obsession with video games might be put to good use. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced Thursday it will give a dozen research teams up to $200,000 each for studies lasting one to two years.
A total of 341 Russian servicemen committed suicide in 2007, Russia's chief military prosecutor said on Thursday.
Suicides remain the leading cause of non-combat deaths in Russia's Armed Forces, ahead of crimes, accidents and hazing.
Mania is a medical condition often associated with some types of depression, particularly manic depression. Manic depression (also known as bipolar disorder) is characterised by alternating cycles of euphoria and despair, often accompanied by unusual thought patterns, strange ideas and a high degree of creativity.
The term mania when used as a suffix in a word denotes an irrational, intense and abnormal preoccupation, fascination or obsession with something. For example, we may have heard of pyromania; which is a compulsion to set things on fire, or kleptomania; a pathological compulsion to steal, or even nymphomania; which describes an abnormally intense desire to have sexual relations. No one really understands what causes mania but one or more of genetic, environmental, psychological, social and biological factors are believed to play a contributory role.
Nearly half of patients with a history of heart disease have poor knowledge about the symptoms of a heart attack and do not perceive themselves to have an elevated cardiovascular risk, according to a report in the May 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Individuals with heart disease have five to seven times the risk of having a heart attack or dying as the general population, according to background information in the article. Survival rates improve following heart attack if treatment begins within one hour. However, most patients are admitted to the hospital 2.5 to three hours after symptoms begin. "Barriers to seeking appropriate care quickly are both cognitive and emotional," the authors write. If patients do not know the symptoms of acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) and other acute coronary syndromes - including nausea and pain in the jaw, chest or left arm - they will not seek treatment for them. If they do not perceive themselves to be at risk for heart attack, they will look for another explanation when they experience these symptoms.
Geneva - Non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and hypertension are emerging as growing health problems among Palestinian refugees, said a United Nations report published Tuesday.
While the prevalence of communicable diseases such as tuberculosis is under control, nutritional deficiencies are also becoming a growing problem, according to the annual health report by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
BAY ST. LOUIS, MISS. - The anguish of Hurricane Katrina should have ended for Gina Bouffanie and her daughter when they left their FEMA trailer. But with each hospital visit and each labored breath her child takes, the young mother fears it has just begun.
A Queensland team has revealed the detective work which uncovered a crucial link to identifying potential victims of a deadly cancer - before it strikes.
Indeed the public is being forced to take vaccines and drugs. My last article gave testimonies from various physicians who bring to light that there is coercion on the part of the government for parents to vaccinate their children.
Perhaps the most shocking incident that comes to mind of government stepping over its bounds with the vaccination issue is the case in Maryland last year. In Prince George's County, MD, more than 1,000 parents were threatened by the State of Maryland with jail time if they did not allow their children to be vaccinated. With armed guards and dogs looking on, the state of Maryland forced the children to be vaccinated at the Prince George's County courthouse!
