Heart Pump Helps Children Waiting for Transplant

Title: Heart Pump Helps Children Waiting for Transplant
Category: Health News
Created: 9/30/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/30/2008

According to Karen Davis the president of the Common Wealth Fund, The states scorecard is closer to home. Where you live really matters in terms of your experience with the American health-care system. The gaps from state to state add up to real lives and real dollars."

So who ranked the highest? According to the article, The top five states overall were Hawaii, Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine, all of which have high rates of health insurance -- nearly 90 percent of working-age adults. By contrast, in the five lowest-ranged states -- Nevada, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi and Oklahoma -- only 70 percent to 78 percent of adults are insured.

The report card of state healthcare was recently published in the CommonWealth Fund. Despite spending the most on healthcare, the Common Wealth Fund ranked the United States 6 out of 6 among western nations in national healthcare. The newest instalment of the study takes it down to a state level. The report ranked states on 32 indicators and were put into five categories: access, quality, potentially avoidable use of hospitals and costs of care, equity, and ability to live long and healthy lives.

Healthcare Varies Drastically From State to State

Despite all the states in America being part of the same country, healthcare quality from state to state is all over the map. A new study has found that not all states are equal in the quality of healthcare given, and the gap between some is larger than you might think.

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Fatty Liver Disease: Genes Affect Risk

Title: Fatty Liver Disease: Genes Affect Risk
Category: Health News
Created: 9/29/2008
Last Editorial Review: 9/29/2008

Pharmaceutical Outsourcing Works for Everyone

Lower Costs for the Consumer

Pharmaceutical Outsourcing - Is It Necessary?

Pharmaceutical outsourcing also is a way that drug companies can keep the cost for a drug to the consumer down. Remember, that when you buy a drug you are also paying for the cost of its development.

If a drug company had to do all of the multitudes of tasks and tests that are required in house, one at a time, it would take over a century before a cure could be made available in pharmacies to alleviate peoples suffering.

When a drug company is able to take certain stages of a drugs development and testing to the competitive open market, by having companies compete with each other to get the work, it is the consumer in the end that saves by having cheaper drugs available to them at the pharmacy.

By outsourcing, drug companies can run multiple procedures at once. Pharmaceutical outsourcing allows a drug company to have several test results from separate sources to compare against one another for added safety and assurance.

It All Takes Time

The research, discovery, development and testing process to finally bring a drug to the pharmacy takes as much as two decades. The testing process alone, to receive approval from the FDA takes ten years on average.

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