US Health Care Gaps Kill 79,000 People a Year, Report Shows
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Disparities in the US health-care system result in up to 79,000 premature deaths each year because of a lack of preventative treatments and care for chronic conditions like diabetes
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Heart diseases and strokes kill 17 million people every year, more than any other cause, and are increasingly likely to afflict people in poor countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.
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According to a new study, nearly 1,700,000 US veterans had no health care cover at all in 2003. The study was carried out by Physicians for National Health Program and the Public Citizen group.
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Nearly 1.7 million U.S. veterans had no health care coverage in 2003 -- no access to private insurance, to Medicare or Medicaid or to the Veterans Affairs health program, health care advocates said on Tuesday.
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About 1.7 million veterans are among the 45 million Americans who have no health insurance coverage, say Harvard Medical School researchers and a doctors group advocating federally financed health care.
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Heart diseases and strokes kill 17 million people every year and are increasingly likely to afflict people in poor countries, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday as it published an atlas mapping the scale of the epidemics.
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A US government survey says the number of Americans living in poverty or without health insurance grew last year. The Census Bureau on Thursday said the number of poor people have climbed 1.3 million to 35.
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More than 157,000 Americans were killed  and about 1.6 million hospitalized as a result of car crashes,  falls, violent acts and accidents in 2001, federal officials  said on Thursday in a report that urged the nation to pay more  attention to basic safety.
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A blistering audit claims the state&#39;s Medicaid system is in such disarray that 1.4 million pills are missing, thousands of people who are dead or lack Social Security numbers are getting millions of dollars in benefits and abuse of mental patients may be
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Five years after the release of a landmark report revealing the human toll that medical errors exact at US hospitals, Americans do not believe the nation&#39;s quality of health care has improved, a new survey finds.
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The nation's poverty rate declined last year for the first time this decade, but the number of Americans without health insurance rose to a record 47 million, according to annual census figures released yesterday.
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Gaps in insurance arenât the only problem with the medical system. Hospitals should be required to report more information.
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Just under 44 million Americans had no health insurance in 2006, according to a survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released on Monday.
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The quality of health care in the United States is steadily improving, with more patients getting recommended treatments, but there are a few notable gaps -- and costs are skyrocketing, according to a report released on Tuesday.
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Americans made an estimated 890 million visits to the doctor in 2002, a 1 percent increase from the previous year, according to a survey released on Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Nearly 1.7 million US veterans had no health care coverage in 2003 -- no access to private insurance, to Medicare or Medicaid or to the
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Though Washington was once a national leader in providing medical insurance for children, the state&#39;s youngest citizens are losing health coverage at an alarming rate, according to a report released yesterday that calls for Gov.