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Falling into the Health Insurance Chasm With Asthma

So what happens when your 28-year-old son has an unexpected health insurance gap and is sick? You get a blazing-fast education in how to find a health care professional who will even see you without that magic card and then you try to figure out how to finance the required tests and then, the toughest part, you try to find asthma medications... Read moreChevron
posted 04/28/2008, comment (1)|
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Prescription Drug Ads: Do They Do More Harm Than Good?

Read our experts' analysis in a special Issue section  "Prescription-drug ads prompt nearly one-third of Americans to ask their doctors about an advertised medicine, and 82% of those who ask say their physicians recommended a prescription."   This comes from Julie Appleby, a reporter with USA TODAY in a news article... Read moreChevron
posted 03/04/2008, comments (0)|
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Lack of Health Insurance Puts Our Kids with Asthma at Risk

Those of us who don't have health insurance know the financial toll that asthma can take on our lives. But now, newly released data shows that health insurance gaps lead to health gaps in kids with asthma. An article published in the journal of Ambulatory Pediatrics reports on data analysis that University of Rochester researchers did... Read moreChevron
posted 01/16/2008, comments (0)|
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The High Cost of Asthma Prescription Drugs

HealthCentral launched a new site this week on health care issues and how our political candidates stand on these issues:drug pricesthe uninsuredhealth care reformstem cell researchhealth care preventionhealth care technologyIf nothing else, it should prove interesting to see how these issues develop in the coming months leading up to our next... Read moreChevron
posted 01/16/2008, comments (0)|
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Covering the Uninsured - Drug Prices -- Significant Asthma Treatment Challenges

We have a presidential election coming up next year and our next candidates will be selected in the coming months. Now is the time to make your voice heard on important health issues affecting Americans with asthma. Each year, the number of uninsured (health insurance) keeps rising, with numbers in the 45 to 50 million people range.... Read moreChevron
posted 12/18/2007, comments (0)|
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