Obese People Generate Bigger Health-Care Bills
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TUESDAY, Oct. 26 (HealthDayNews) -- Obese people have higher health-care costs than those who aren't obese, says a study in the Oct. 25 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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he cost of providing health care to employees has risen 11.2 percent this year, according to the results of an authoritative national survey reported yesterday.
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Preventing obesity and smoking can save lives, but it doesn't save money, researchers reported Monday. It costs more to care for healthy people who live years longer, according to a Dutch study that counters the common perception that preventing obesity would save governments millions of dollars.
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America&#39;s obesity epidemic isn&#39;t just a health problem, according to a new study. It&#39;s also adding extra weight to airliners, boosting the already soaring costs of jet fuel.
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A new study carried out by researchers from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Centre has revealed that women living in households with four or more people were significantly more likely to be obese than those who lived by themselves.
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Obese individuals are at  increased risk for suffering a heart attack or other "acute  coronary syndrome" (ACS), but because they are treated more  aggressively than their lean counterparts, their outcomes are  actually better, new research suggests.
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Even as obesity and its consequences are increasingly taxing the health care system, fast food places are serving as hospital cafeterias.
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A new Emory University study found that 15 medical conditions led to about half of the $200 billion rise in US health spending from 1987 to 2000.
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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Obese people, especially women, are more likely to suffer complications following hip replacement surgery, Swiss researchers say.
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The ballooning cost of cancer treatment offers an example of how difficult it may be to rein in the nationâs runaway health care spending.
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Retirees face a whopping medical bill in their golden years.
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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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The main reason so many people lack health insurance is because of its cost and a big reason for that cost is the explosion of expensive, medically questionable care like knee replacements and lumbar fusion procedures.
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With the rising cost of health care and over 45-million Americans uninsured, many believe America&#39;s healthcare system needs work.
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Morbidly obese men tend to have  more breathing difficulties than morbidly obese women, partly  because they have much larger waistlines, a new study suggests.
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Obese mothers-to-be need significantly more NHS care than pregnant women of a healthy weight, a study says.
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The cost of providing health care to employees has risen 11.2 per cent this year, according to the results of an authoritative national survey.