North Carolina Health News - Expert: Insurance in pain for NC companies, workers
Employees can expect more high-deductible policy, the employers try to control health care costs, health researcher and former journalist told members of the House of Charlotte see Friday.
Fellow panelist Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, decided it was not a smart business decision, "Employers know that the first principle of the company is not a penny on the table."
Benjamin, a physician and former Minister of Health of Maryland, told the audience in the room that the federal Medicaid had the money can be used to improve mental health services, a request described previously in the meeting of John Santo Pietro Carolina Health Care System. "The beauty is that Medicaid is administered by the States," Benjamin said. "You can do it. Governors can be creative."
The pump handle - A new study concludes that the relationship between job losses and the behavior of the mass suicide teenager
Previous studies have documented an association between depression and suicide in adults. But how do these delays impact on all families and communities, and in particular how the massive job losses that affect the mental health of young people? A new study has found that, unfortunately, many young people are not immune to the pressure of a tough economy.
Published online last week in the American Journal of Public Health, the researchers found that increased job losses by the state with increased suicidal behavior in adolescents and young people connected.
The Washington Post - 21 of the biggest cities in the average American less than seven hours of sleep per night
Americans were able to work in a dream, but those who seem to live in large cities do not work on land.
Jawbone, maker of the popular fitness tracker with the same name, crunched data from tens of thousands of users in more than twenty of the largest cities in the United States (and thousands of users in more than twenty cities around the world).
To finish Simple measurements inpatients 70% more - Los Angeles Times
A free supply of nicotine replacement medications and a handful of automated calls from smokers who wanted to quit smoking much more likely to succeed, according to a Tuesday results in the Journal of Clinical examination of the Medical Association Americana.
Researchers developed the study said that they for a simple and inexpensive way to help stop smoking, which were already motivated. They believed that once your 90-day program has been implemented, could be held at a price of less than $ 1,000 per quitter.
