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Pharmaceutical companies outsourced $36.6 billion in global research and development expenses to contract drug developers in 2011, up 6.6 percent from 2009, according to healthcare research firm Kalorama Information.
As President Barack Obama noted Thursday when introducing proposed regulations for minimum wage and overtime protection for home healthcare workers, the home healthcare workforce is the largest and fastest growing in the country. A new analysis finds that required training for some of these workers has gone largely unchanged in almost 25 years.
HHS said its approach is designed to make sure that consumers have quality and affordable coverage starting in 2014.
President Barack Obama yesterday gave home healthcare workers a boost of confidence when he announced his administration is proposing minimum wage and overtime protections for the country's nearly 2 million home care workers.
The proportion of Americans reporting problems affording prescription drugs remained level between 2007 and 2010, with more than one in eight going without a prescribed drug in 2010, according to a national study released today by the Center for Studying Health System Change. Despite the flat numbers, the news isn't necessarily good.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded $218 million Wednesday to 26 hospitals and health systems to reduce the millions of preventable injuries and complications caused by healthcare-acquired conditions each year.
The number of young people entering the nursing profession is surging, providing relief from the recent nursing shortage, according to an article in the December issue of Health Affairs.
Created in the mid 90’s for the wealthy elite, concierge medicine today delivers care at a more reasonable price and can actually be more cost effective than some health insurance plans.
The December Health Sector Economic Indicators briefs released last week by Altarum Institute's Center for Sustainable Health Spending reports slowing growth for healthcare price, spending and employment in October 2011.
Healthcare employment rose by 17,000 in November 2011, according to a report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in early December.