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New Hampshire's Medicaid Program Almost Out Of Money
"Rising unemployment and spiking Medicaid and welfare caseloads have put [New Hampshire"s] most recent budget to the test just two weeks after its adoption," New Hampshire Public Radio reports. The state"s Medicaid caseload is just 39 enrollees away from putting the "state"s Medicaid budget in the red."
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American Dietetic Association Releases Position Paper On Food And Water Safety
The American Dietetic Association has released an updated position paper on food and water safety that reviews the current situation in this country, identifies new tools that can help decrease illness and encourages continued research, education and technological advances to keep the food and water supply safe.
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Calorie-Burning 'Brown Fat' Found In Adults, Especially Women
Keeping your baby fat turns out to be a good thing, as long as it is "brown fat"- the kind that burns calories, according to a study that found adults have much more of this type of fat than previously thought. The results, which suggest a new way to treat obesity, were presented at The Endocrine Society"s 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
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Insured Immigrants Have Lower Medical Expenses Than Insured US-born Citizens

A nationally representative study found that immigrants spent less on medical expenses than their US-born counterparts, even after controlling for level of health insurance coverage and other confounding factors. Researchers used data for non-elderly adults ages 19-64 from the 2003 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. They found that approximately 44 percent of recent immigrants and 63 percent of established immigrants were fully insured. Yet recent immigrants were responsible for only about 1 percent of public medical expenditures even though they constituted 5 percent of the population. "These findings suggest, contrary to stereotypes, that insurance premiums paid for immigrants may actually be cross-subsidizing the medical expenses of those who are US born," the study"s authors claimed. "Health Insurance Coverage and Medical Expenditures of Immigrants and Native-Born Citizens in the United States." American Journal of Public Health


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