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Health care in America costs more than in other industrialized nation and we aren’t even getting the world’s best care for our dollars, according to a new study. The United States spent $7,960 per capita on health care in 2009, the most of 13 industrialized nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Continue reading →

A study released on Thursday shows that one in four working-age Americans went without insurance at some point in 2011, often as a result of unemployment and other job changes. The study by the Commonwealth Fund polled 2,100 people aged 19 to 64 and found that 26 percent of non-elderly adults went without insurance — a percentage that researchers said equals about 48 million people when measured against U.S. Census data. Continue reading →

Half of all cancers could be prevented if people just adopted healthier behaviors, US scientists argued on Wednesday.  Smoking is blamed for a third of all US cancer cases and being overweight leads to another 20 percent of the deadly burden that costs the United States some $226 billion per year in health care expenses and lost productivity. Continue reading →

Type 1 diabetes — the autoimmune disease that begins in childhood and used to be called juvenile-onset diabetes — is rising, around the globe, at 3 percent to 5 percent per year. And at this point, no one can quite say why. Continue reading →