Nearly half of U.S. small-business owners believe the Affordable Care Act will harm their businesses.
National healthcare spending in March grew 3.8 percent on an annualized basis.
The Obama administration proposed a rule Monday that will cut Medicaid spending. Full Story
Most Texans are not meeting the physical activity guidelines for aerobic exercise and muscle-strengthening activity, according to the Centers for Disease Control. About 1 out of 5 Texans met federal guidelines for both activities in 2011. Slightly less than half meet the aerobic activity guidelines and about 1 out of 4 met the muscle-strengthening guidelines. The Texas rates were slightly below those of the national averages. The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans recommend that adults get at least 2½ hours a week of moderate-intensity aerobic activity such as walking, or one hour and 15 minutes a week of vigorous-intensity aerobic… Full Story
Collin County and Denton County are ranked second and third healthiest counties in Texas, according to the 2013 County Health Rankings. The annual analysis is done by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. The state’s healthiest county was Williamson, which is in Austin’s northern suburbs. Polk County in East Texas was deemed the state’s least healthy county. Nationally, the healthiest counties tend to be suburban areas populated by residents with college degrees and high incomes. The median household income in Williamson County is about twice that of Polk County. Collin County was No.… Full Story
Kenneth Cooper, MD, had plenty of naysayers when he opened a preventive-health facility in north Dallas in 1970. There was no money in preventing disease, they told him. What started as a two-person practice has become a fitness-and-research empire that now employs more than 700 people and had a 2012 operating budget of $55 million. Cooper did not see this coming. “My vision was finite. God’s vision was infinite,” he said. This month marks the 45th anniversary of Cooper’s best-selling book Aerobics. That book sparked a generation of runners, increasing their number from about 100,000 to 10 million a decade… Full Story
More young women are being diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer than three decades ago, according to a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The researchers found the rate of metastatic breast cancer increased about 2 percent annually between 1976 and 2009 among younger women. The metastatic breast cancer rate remains small, rising from 1 in 65,000 to 1 in 34,000 during that time period for women aged 25 to 39. The same trend was not seen among older women, according to the analysis. The findings affect an “age group that already has the worst prognosis, no… Full Story
Southlake-based Sabre Holdings has been able to show a financial return on investment in its health and wellness programs by focusing on sustainable reductions in health risks, according to chief executive officer Sam Gilliland. Gilliland was the keynote speaker Monday at the Health & Productivity Forum, sponsored by the National Business Coalition on Health and Integrated Benefits Institute, at the Fairmont Hotel. The conference, traditionally held in San Francisco, is making a one-year appearance in Dallas, according to the organizers. The meeting attracted more than 300 attendees from around the nation. Sabre, which includes Travelocity, is the world’s leading travel… Full Story
Parkland Ex-CMO has been hired by the Chicago public health system.
Only about 1 out of 8 of about 509,000 eligible physicians said they met requirements for meaningful use incentives for electronic health records.
The American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation added 90 tests and procedures to its Choosing Wisely campaign that identifies tests and procedures it considers unnecessary or harmful. Full Story
More people are meeting recommended goals in the three key markers of diabetes control, according to a study conducted and funded by NIH and CDC.
More than half of the U.S. population lives in areas served by accountable care organizations, according to Oliver Wyman, a consulting firm.
The Obama administration has released its final rule on essential health benefits that insurers must offer.
If you go to the grocery store with a specific list of ingredients for a favorite meal that you cook all the time, you can probably get competitive prices pretty efficiently. However, if you and your family are just hungry, on a budget, and want to eat something good that you may not have had before, you probably need to get together and come up with the list, before you run out and go shopping—I don’t know about you, but we get all kinds of stuff we don’t need with no list on an empty stomach. More often than not,… Full Story
More people are meeting recommended goals in the three key markers of diabetes control, according to a study conducted and funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study, published online in Diabetes Care, shows the number of people with diabetes able to meet or exceed all three of the measures that demonstrate good diabetes management rose from about 2 percent to about 19 percent from 1988 to 2010. Each measure also showed substantial improvement, with over half of people meeting each individual goal in 2010. The measures are A1C — which… Full Story
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