Five Diseases Help Drive Health Spending Rise
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A handful of conditions such as  mental illness, stroke, diabetes and lung disease accounted for  much of the huge increase in health-care spending dating back  to the late 1980s, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
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Measures to tackle rising public health problems are being hit by a lack of funds, health chiefs say.
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CHICAGO: Health insurance premiums rose five times faster than US workersâ salaries this year, according to a survey released last Thursday that also showed slippage in the percentage of American workers covered by employer health plans.
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Healthcare costs in employer-sponsored plans are expected to rise an average of 8 percent in 2005, the first time the increase has sunk to single digits in the last five years, a new survey said.
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(AGI) - London, Nov. 27 - There is a chronic shortage of investments in human resources in the health sector around the world. This impedes forceful fighting of illnesses such as tuberculosis, AIDS, and malaria.
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Hospital and doctor visits in the  United States have surged by 20 percent in the past five years  and the most commonly prescribed medications are  antidepressants, according to statistics published on Friday.
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WASHINGTON Â President Bush and other critics of a $35 billion spending increase for children's health insurance say they'll support expanding coverage to families of four making as much as $62,000 a year, but they want to limit states' ability to go beyond that level.
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Health-insurance premiums paid by US employers rose 11.2 percent this year, five times as fast as wages, according to a study that may reinforce voters&#39; concerns over rising medical costs.
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Five million people, or one in 10 adults, spend more than they earn on a monthly basis, a survey suggests.
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Premiums for employer-sponsored health plans rose an average of 11.2 percent in 2004, the fourth consecutive year of double-digit growth, according to a study released Thursday by the Washington, DC-based Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and
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LANCASTER, Pa.  - Excessive eating, smoking and  drinking by Americans is partially responsible for rising  health care costs causing a drag on the U.S. economy, Treasury  Secretary John Snow said on Tuesday.
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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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What should really keep executives awake at night is the upward trajectory of health care spending.
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With health care the top domestic issue among voters as the nation heads into the 2008 elections, the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease asked presidential candidates Tuesday to focus on ways to prevent, treat and manage chronic diseases that account for more than 75 cents of every dollar spent on health care.
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There's no better time than now to consider funds focused on the health-care industry.
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The Bush administration has increased spending on community health centers by hundreds of millions of dollars since 2001, helping to open or expand more than 500 of the facilities and extending basic medical services to 4.5 million people.
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One out of every eight U.S. federal health care dollars is spent treating people with diabetes, a study found, and advocates are calling for the creation of a government post to oversee coordination of spending on treatment and prevention among federal agencies.