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Medicaid patients have slightly longer waits at medical appointments than those with private insurance

Outpatient Wait Times Are Longer for Medicaid Recipients

Researchers suggest lag time might be due to providers having larger caseloads
High-price practices have higher scores on certain measures of care coordination and management

Practice Prices Linked to Some Measures of Care Coordination

But no differences in overall care ratings, receipt of preventive services, acute care use

Digestive Disease Week, May 6-9

Digestive Disease Week 2017 Digestive Disease Week, sponsored by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, American Gastroenterological Association, American Society...
Increases in insurance coverage from 2008 to 2014 were not associated with worse access to care for continuously insured adults

Increases in Rates of Insured Don’t Harm Continuously Insured

Continuously insured adults do not have worse access to care with increases in cover from '08 to '14
The number of reproductive-aged women with past or present hepatitis C virus infection is increasing

HCV Infection Increasing in Reproductive-Aged Women

Doubling in number of women with past or present HCV infection in NNDSS from 2006 to 2014
From 2001 to 2010

Postmarket Safety Events for 32 Percent of Novel Therapeutics

Thirty-two percent of 222 FDA approved novel therapeutics from 2001 to 2010 were affected
A considerable proportion of physician mothers report perceived discrimination

Most Physician Mothers Report Perceived Discrimination

Overall, 77.9 percent reported discrimination, with 66.3 percent reporting gender discrimination
A capsule robot shows potential in gastrointestinal tract diagnostics

DDW: Autonomously-Controlled ‘Capsule Robot’ Can Explore Colon

Tiny, magnet-guided device might someday replace colonoscopy, researchers say
A new type of "balloon-in-a-pill" may offer a nonsurgical way for obese people to lose weight -- and get healthier

DDW: Bariatric Balloon Capsule Shows Promise for Weight Loss

New capsule requires no endoscope; balloon is deflated, then excreted naturally
Patients who travel to an academic medical center to undergo surgery for pancreatic cancer live a few months longer than those who choose to have their operation at a hospital closer to home

Traveling to Academic Hospital May Be Best for Pancreatic Cancer

Academic medical centers that perform more tumor surgeries have better patient outcomes