Posts Tagged ‘long’
Criticism, Passion Emerge At Day-Long Health Care Meeting
Strong personalities and opinions emerged at yesterday’s bipartisan health care summit. NPR interviewed Rep. Dave Camp, ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee. Camp said: “We were able to at least be heard and have some exposure to the ideas that we’ve been promoting for a long time…
New, Targeted Pain Medicine Delivery Systems May Reduce Costs Long Term; Cost To Treat Pain Varies Significantly By Chronic Pain Condition
Estimates of pain care treatment costs exceed $1 billion annually in the United States. Today at the American Academy of Pain Medicine’s 26th Annual Meeting two abstracts looked at the issue. One evaluated intrathecal drug delivery (a targeted medicine delivery system) that could save costs over time. The other analyzed the differences between the costs of treatment for chronic pain treatments…
Study Reveals Predictors Of Long-term Opioid Use For Back Pain
Despite limited evidence of long-term success in using opioid pain medications for chronic low back pain, opioid prescribing has increased in recent years for back pain and other non-cancer pain indications. The implications are controversial as published studies provide little evidence indicating which patients will benefit from long-term opioid treatment…
Development Of ADX10059 Ended For Long-Term Use
Addex Pharmaceuticals (SWISS: ADXN) announced that based on preliminary review of the unblinded data from study 206, it has terminated development of ADX10059 for chronic indications, including long term treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease and migraine prophylaxis…
Outpatient disc treatment gives long-term back pain relief
A randomized, controlled study comparing standard conservative therapy to a minimally invasive treatment called percutaneous disc decompression for painful herniated disc revealed that while both treatments help patients in the short run, only disc decompression kept patients pain free up to two years later.
FDA Approves New Drug Treatment For Long-Term Pain Relief After Shingles Attacks
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the approval of Qutenza (capsaicin) 8% patch, a medicated skin patch that relieves the pain of post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN), a serious complication that can occur after a bout with shingles. Shingles is an outbreak of rash or blisters on the skin that is caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox – the varicella-zoster virus.
AARP Pushes Lawmakers To Improve Long-Term Care – Legislation Would Allow More Americans To Get Services At Home
As lawmakers return to Washington to tackle health care reform, AARP is pressing them to improve the country’s long-term care system as a part of comprehensive reform. Millions of older Americans rely on Medicaid for the long-term services and supports they need, but the program’s bias toward institutional care prevents most from getting more affordable care where they want it: their own homes.
Flu pandemic long overdue
Here we go again. Just when we thought it was safe to go outside, the threat of another potential flu pandemic raises its head and hysteria builds again. Once again there is talk of quarantine, airport surveillance, travel restrictions and public closures.
Reform Of Long-Term Care System Could Save Billions
The federal government could save upwards of $35 billion over ten years if it enacted a policy proposal to reform financing of long-term and post-acute care, said Avalere Health in a new report released. Avalere built a new proprietary model to assess the federal costs of change in long-term care policy, using methods and assumptions similar to those employed by the Congressional Budget Office.
Avalere Health Finds New Plan To Reform Medicare Post-Acute And Long Term Care System Could Save U.S. Approximately $35 Billion Over Ten Years
Saying the opportunity now exists for the Obama Administration and Congress to both enhance U.S. seniors’ care choices as well as save approximately $35 billion over ten years by adopting a new Medicare post-acute and long term care reform plan, the nation’s leading long term care advocacy organizations warned any broad-based reform of the nation’s health care system in the months ahead will be incomplete without including long term and post-acute care.
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