US Health Report Card Offers Mixed Grades
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A state-by-state review of the nation&#39;s health shows that progress has stalled on the key issues of obesity and infant mortality, according to a new report.
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The Nation's Report Card shows U.S. students are improving slightly in math, but less so in reading
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Pre-clinical trial results are mixed, but mark a major step forward for developing human treatments.
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THURSDAY, Jan. 20 (HealthDayNews) -- Problems with documentation of drug responses and child abuse screening and reporting are among the gaps in quality of care for children in California's public mental health clinics, says a University of California, Los Angeles-led study.
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Nearly half of all states received a failing grade in a school foods report card issued Tuesday by a nonprofit group that evaluated school nutrition policies.
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Primary care doctors, who sometimes review hundreds of test results each week, reported in a new study that delays in reviewing results for patients are common, and many said they are unhappy with how they manage these crucial pieces of information.
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A new, independent report card flunks America's colleges in a key subject for many students and parents: affordability.
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NEW YORK  - People treated at high-quality hospitals are more likely to survive and less likely to develop complications, according to a new report on more than 5,000 US hospitals.
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WASHINGTON - A day before the first presidential debate, the government's health policy watchdog raised concerns that early mailings to seniors about the new Medicare prescription discount cards championed by President Bush were confusing or inadequate.   "We found that these beneficiaries received very little mail from drug card sponsors that would enable them to make an informed choice among cards," the Health and Human Services Department inspector general wrote in the Sept...
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NEW YORK  - The U.S. government recently   bumped up its recommendations for fruit and vegetable   consumption, and a new study suggests it's very likely   Americans aren't keeping up.
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National Committee for Quality Assurance&#39;s annual State of Health Care Quality report is the culmination of a year&#39;s worth of measurement and data collection, the goal of which is to help drive improvement by providing as complete a view of health care
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The District is seeing more avoidable hospitalizations among children and middle-aged adults, a puzzling trend that includes insured and uninsured groups and raises complex issues of health-care access, quality and capacity.
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Several government studies released Thursday find that Hispanics are in much poorer health than other racial groups, and especially whites, in the United States.
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Florida has a long way to go in providing a healthier environment for its citizens, according to an annual national report released this week.
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Five years after the release of a landmark report revealing the human toll that medical errors exact at US hospitals, Americans do not believe the nation&#39;s quality of health care has improved, a new survey finds.
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A report released last month by the Centers for Disease Control makes for some pretty heavy reading -literally. The report, &quot;Mean Body Weight, Height, and Body Mass Index, United States 1960-2002,&quot; found that
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(WebMD) New data show that patients get vastly different levels of care at the nation&#39;s teaching hospitals and that top institutions offering more intensive and expensive health care often don&#39;t achieve better results.