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Showing posts with label health news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health news. Show all posts

Tuesday, 9 September 2014

For Everyone Health Insurance May Not Be Affordable

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 A new study suggest in United states the Affordable Care Act is the law of the land, but it doesn't make health insurance affordable for everyone.

Researcher showed Older adults who earn just a little bit too much to qualify for federal premium subsidies are particularly vulnerable.
This group of adults faces "the biggest gap in affordability by far," said Ilana Graetz, assistant professor in the department of preventive medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis and the study's lead author.
Young adults face another quirk of the health-reform law, also known as Obamacare. Even after subsidies, young people often pay higher premiums than older adults, the study found.

Graetz said "The fact that they actually have to pay more with the subsidies is a little bit concerning and surprising,".
The study, published in the Sept. 9 online edition of Annals of Internal Medicine, after subside examines premium variations by age, income and region and the affordability of premiums .

Tuesday, 12 August 2014

At Saidu Teaching Hospital on Saturday,6 cases of dangue in one Day

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Roshan Ali, the focal person of the STH dengue unit, the six patients admitted to the hospital belong to Skha Cheena, Sethi Mills Mohallah and Faizabad. at Saidu Teaching Hospital on Saturday,As many as six new patients tested positive for the dengue virus.This is the huge number of patients recorded in just one day and spread a wave of fear among locals who saw a large-scale outbreak last year.


According to Roshan Ali, the focal person of the STH dengue unit, the six patients admitted to the hospital belong to Skha Cheena, Sethi Mills Mohallah and Faizabad.
Ali maintained the recovery rate of patients is swift because only nine are under treatment, while 53 have been discharged.
The dengue outbreak began in Swat in late June; a majority of infected patients belong to Skha Cheena. The district administration has been making efforts to keep the virus from spreading across the valley by conducting fumigation drives and creating awareness among residents.



However, the discovery of six new cases in one day has made locals doubt the administration’s efforts. 
Farooq Khan, a medical practitioner in Amankot, told.“We thought this year the dengue fever will not spread as widely as it did last year and the government would control it, but that does not seem to be the case,"

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