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Finding The Right Connection After Spinal Cord Injury
In a major step in spinal cord injury research, scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have demonstrated that regenerating axons can be guided to their correct targets and re-form connections after spinal cord injury. Their findings were published in the advance online edition of the journal Nature Neuroscience on August 2.
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During Pregnancy Obese Women Should Not Gain Weight, Study Suggests
For years, doctors and other health-care providers have managed pregnant patients according to guidelines issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). In 1986, ACOG stated, "Regardless of how much women weigh before they become pregnant, gaining between 26-35 pounds during pregnancy can improve the outcome of pregnancy and reduce their chances of having the pregnancy end in fetal death." Until its revised guidelines were released yesterday, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) had recommended that overweight women should gain about 15 pounds during pregnancy.
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Obesity Healthcare Costs US 147 Billion Dollars A Year, New Study
The annual healthcare cost of obesity in the US has doubled in less than a decade and may be as high as 147 billion dollars a year says new
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Washington State Insurers Impose Double Digit Rate Hikes, Again

"In what is becoming an annual ordeal for policyholders, Regence BlueShield is raising premiums for 135,000 individual health-plan members in Washington [state] by an average 17 percent on Aug. 1," the Seattle Times reports. The insurer"s president attributed the rate hikes to "higher medical claims, inflation, costly prescription drugs and the expenses of treating a population that is aging and growing less healthy." Other Washington insurers have also hiked rates in recent months, and it"s the third straight year that Regence policy holders have had double-digit increases. Group Health Cooperative, a co-op which is owned by its policyholders, much like the organizations that would be created to compete with private insurers in hopes of reducing medical spending under one Senate reform proposal, raised its rates by 13 percent in June. Another insurer, LifeWise, hiked its own by 17.6 that month. Insurers "get away with rate increases in this market because they can," Kathleen O"Connor a Regence customer and reform activist told the Times. "I"m not sure why the insurance commissioner is not all over these rate increases." Others told the Times that they believed a government-run health insurance plan, another reform proposal, would force the companies to change their policies. Conservatives say such a plan could drive insurers out of business. But "that only goes to prove the point," said a Washington resident and Regence customer, who thinks it might not be a bad idea to drive some private insurers out of business (Song, 7/9). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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