New treatments for heart disease led rise in health care costs
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WASHINGTON - The cost of treating heart and lung disease and mental disorders led the upward push in US health care spending, according to a study examining cost jumps by medical condition.
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As a treatment for breast  cancer, radiation, even modern regimens, appears to increase  the risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a report in  the Journal of the National Cancer Institute for March 7.
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Heart disease, usually seen as a   quintessentially Western problem, is rapidly becoming a major   threat to the developing world, costing millions of lives and   billions of dollars, top cardiologists said on Tuesday.
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Despite exploding costs, most Americans got sizable life-extending bang for their medical bucks over recent decades, says one of the most sweeping studies ever of health-care value.
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Given medical advances, it&#39;s no wonder that heart disease patients expect doctors to address coronary problems with drugs, medical devices or both.
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Less-costly versions of implanted heart devices represent a good value for most patients who need them, according to a cost analysis study presented on Wednesday.
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The move follows recent studies suggesting that the medications might cause heart attacks or make cancer worse in some patients.
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Health insurance costs are going up, and up, and up. And in some cases, up some more. Premiums for employer-sponsored plans rose by 11.
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NEW YORK  - Over the last decade, the use  of angioplasty and coronary artery bypass grafting to treat  elderly heart patients has increased, and outcomes of these  procedures have improved.
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An aggressive, high-dose regimen of cholesterol-lowering drugs within days after a heart attack may reduce further heart problems, says a new large-scale study.
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Patients who suffer from a rare disease that causes continuous high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs received a new treatment choice Friday.
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Less-costly versions of implanted  heart devices represent a good value for most patients who need  them, according to a cost analysis study presented on  Wednesday.
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The nationâs most common cardiac malfunction, once thought harmless, is now treated with costly procedures.
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Numerous media reports have indicated big increases for Medicare and employer-sponsored health insurance premiums and for the number of Americans lacking health insurance.
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Health care costs for employers in the US will increase by and average of 11.3 percent in 2005, according to human resources services firm Hewitt Associates.
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Premiums for job-based health insurance jumped 11.2 percent on average this year across the nation, according to a survey released Thursday, the latest evidence of a painful rise in medical costs that is placing an increasingly heavy burden on employers