Health care access has grown worse since 2003.
One in five Americans postponed or skipped needed medical care last year because of cost, insurance problems, or difficulty getting an appointment, according to a report from the Center for Studying Health System Change. Researchers, who compared nationwide survey data from the years 2003 and 2007, found...

KCI Inks Pact with 3M Health Care.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-2 August 2008-KCI Inks Pact with 3M Health Care(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Kinetic Concepts announced that it has entered into an agreement with 3M Health Care for the supply of 3M Tegaderm brand transparent film dressings for inclusion in KCI kits with KCI's...

Pediatricians' mental health care role suggested.
Pediatricians should identify and refer, but not treat, the majority of children's mental health problems, results from a survey of Cleveland-area primary care pediatricians and child and adolescent psychiatrists suggest. The exception was attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder; the majority of respondents agreed that pediatricians should be responsible for treating...

Fitch Rates Baptist Health Care, Pensacola, Florida's $515MM Bonds 'BBB-'; Outlook Stable.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-6 October 2008-Fitch Rates Baptist Health Care, Pensacola, Florida's $515MM Bonds 'BBB-'; Outlook Stable(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Fitch Ratings has assigned a 'BBB-' rating on Baptist Health Care's (BHCC) $515 million series 2008 bonds expected to be issued through the Escambia County Health...

U.S. grade goes lower on health care report card.
Access to care has declined significantly since 2003, with 42% of all working-age adults either uninsured or underinsured in 2007, according to a national health system scorecard from The Commonwealth Fund, which found that health care system performance in the United States has worsened slightly overall since 2006. ...

Putting our house in order; a guide to Social Security and health care reform.
9780393066029 Putting our house in order; a guide to Social Security and health care reform. Shultz, George Pratt et al. W.W. Norton 2008 226 pages $24.95 Hardcover HD7125 Shultz (a former...

Harris Interactive Research: US Has World's Most Unpopular Health Care System.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-10 July 2008-Harris Interactive Research: US Has World's Most Unpopular Health Care System(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Several recent surveys by Harris Interactive, including the latest Financial Times/Harris Poll, asked an identical question of cross-sections of adults in ten developed countries about their own...

Health care niche; Mini-clinics an affordable, accessible alternative.
COLUMN: IN OUR OPINION Massachusetts is about to join other states that allow medical mini-clinics within pharmacies for treating minor ailments. While strictly a niche service, in-store clinics are in keeping with the state's efforts to improve access to care while cutting costs. The mini-clinic...

Personal care physicians play vital role in health care system.
Byline: Jack Dutzar COLUMN: AS I SEE IT A recent Associated Press article provided a fairly comprehensive view of the reasons for the broadly recognized shortage of primary care physicians in the U.S., a condition which is even more acute in Massachusetts. The...

Maneuvering begins on Capitol Hill for health care reform.
Democrats and Republicans are so confident about the chances of some type of health reform in the next administration that staff meetings and hearings geared toward crafting legislation have been going on in earnest in both the House and the Senate, with the goal of being ready to go...