Back Pain Spending Surge Shows No Benefit
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Many popular treatments for back and neck pain may be ineffective or overused.
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Two big government-funded studies on back surgery for painful herniated disks show no clear-cut reason to choose an operation over other treatment. The pain and physical function of the patients, who were suffering from a condition called sciatica, improved significantly after two years whether or not they had surgery. However, neither strategy offered complete relief.
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Alternative therapies such as acupuncture and spinal manipulation may be worth a try to help relieve neck, back and knee pain. That&#39;s the conclusion of a trio of studies that appear in the Dec.
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A new study presents stark evidence that high medical payments do not buy high-quality patient care.
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Increased medical spending may bust future budgets - and won't make Americans healthier, says the head of the Congressional Budget Office.
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Your added expense isn't worth the cost.
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Patients with degenerative disc disease in their spines may have an alternative to getting their vertebrae fused, which alleviates pain but limits motion.
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Battered consumers, faced with weak income growth and rising inflation, trimmed their spending in August by the largest amount in nearly a year. The Commerce Department reported Friday that consumer spending, after adjusting for inflation, dropped by 0.1 percent last month, the first decline since a 0.3 percent fall in September 2005, a month when business activity was disrupted by Hurricane Katrina.
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Spend a fortune on anti-wrinkle creams? Don't bother, said a U.S. study released on Tuesday.
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Routine physiotherapy seems to be no better than expert advice at relieving mild lower back pain, British researchers said on Friday.
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U.S. Medicare officials are reconsidering a decision earlier this year not to pay for artificial spinal discs in the lower back for older patients, but are excluding Johnson & Johnson's Charite, an agency spokesman said Wednesday.
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Twenty-three percent of respondents to a ChangeWave Research study said their companies will reduce or halt IT spending in the second quarter of this year, results that underscore recent&#160;concerns about a U.S. recession.ChangeWave, an investment advice firm in Rockville, Maryland, conducted a survey Feb. 11 to Feb. 15, garnering responses from 2,013 people involved with IT spending in their organizations. Most worked for U.S. companies, with 7 percent of respondents coming from Canada, as well as a small number from other nations.Only 15 percent of respondents said spending would increase in the second quarter, a nine-point drop from the company&#39;s previous survey in November. Just 10 percent reported that first-quarter spending has been greater than planned, a fall of seven points compared to the last survey. Twenty-seven percent of respondents said their companies have spent less than planned during the first quarter, a rise of three points.Meanwhile, 43 percent said their companies are giving a &quot;green light&quot; to second-quarter spending, meaning conditions are normal. But that represents a nine-point drop from the last study and the lowest level ChangeWave has seen in more than four years.The results are roughly similar across companies of all sizes, according to ChangeWave&#39;s data.&quot;This is pretty non-ambiguous stuff here,&quot; Paul Carton, director of research for ChangeWave, said of the results. &quot;But it&#39;s not the end of the world, either. ... We&#39;re having a tough quarter right now. Spending is down. That doesn&#39;t mean there aren&#39;t pockets where things are doing OK.&quot;In addition, strong consumer spending could prop up the economy even as corporations tighten their belts, he said. &quot;We find in our world of measuring change, the consumer spending is two-thirds and corporate spending is one-third.&quot;However, a ChangeWave study on consumer spending from January turned up similarly grim results.Also, respondents to the latest survey offered rather lukewarm forecasts for the rest of the year. Only 19 percent said they expected their IT budget to grow in the second half of 2008, and 20 percent predicted it will drop. However, 51 percent said they believe it will remain the same.
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People with chronic back pain showed measurable shrinkage of their brains when they were given MRI scans, researchers reported yesterday.
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Our position is: Expansion of government control isn&#39;t the answer to US health-care problems. Soaring health care costs are taking an ever-larger share out of employee paychecks and eating into employer profits.
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ATLANTA - A new study has found that 15 medical conditions accounted for about half of the US$200 billion (S$342 billion) rise in US health spending from 1987 to 2000.
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Weighing the benefits of tax-free growth with the pain of locking in your money.
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Chronic back pain can shrink the gray matter in your brain by as much as 11 percent in one year, the same amount of brain density that&#39;s lost in 10 to 20 years of normal aging, says a Northwestern University study.