Cerebrovascular disease is a leading cause of serious long-term disability, affecting as many as 700,000 people every year. Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) affects approximately 30,000 Americans every year, with 90 percent of all cases caused by cerebral aneurysms. Up to 6 percent of the U.S. population may be living with unruptured aneurysms. [click link for full article] (more…)
A generous $5.08 million, four-year grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation will enable the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) to dramatically expand its highly successful Geriatrics Education for Specialty Residents Program (GSR) — an initiative designed to better prepare surgical and other specialty medical residents to care for the growing number of older patients. [click link for full article] (more…)
Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire (D) is expected to sign a bill that would expand health insurance coverage and reduce health care costs in the state, the AP/Takoma News Tribune reports. The state House on Friday voted 63-35 to approve the bill, and the Senate on Saturday voted 31-17 in favor of the measure (Byrd, AP/Takoma News Tribune, 4/22). [click link for full article] (more…)
The percentage of North Carolinians under the age of 65 who lacked health insurance for a year has risen from 15.3 percent in 2000 to 17.2 percent in 2005. The proportion of uninsured residents ranged from a low of 13.4 percent in Wake County to a high of 27.5 percent in Tyrrell County. Lack of health insurance is a particularly acute problem in Eastern North Carolina; nine of the 10 counties with the highest proportion of uninsured lie east of Interstate 95. [click link for full article] (more…)
