"It's people who have no resources who will be in the medical term 'screwed, ' " says Michael Vanrooyen of the Harvard School of Public Health.
He has since been transferred with the help of U.S. Marshalls to Federal Medical Center, Devens -- a federal prison specializing in long-term medical care, about 40 miles west of Boston.
"President Saleh arrived this evening in the USA for a short-term private medical visit, " Yemeni embassy spokesman Mohammed Albasha said in a statement quoted by the AFP news agency.
In an editorial in the same journal, Dr John Baron, of Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire, said short-term studies appeared to suggest there was no effect from high dietary fibre intake on bowel cancer risk.
Specialty hospitals are only a more dramatic step in the long-term expansion of medical services beyond hospital walls.
In fact, medical professionals have stopped using the term "fibrocystic breast disease" and now simply refer to "fibrocystic breasts" or "fibrocystic breast changes" because having fibrocystic breasts isn't really a disease at all.
Despite claims to the contrary, there is no conclusive evidence that less medical spending results in better or equal long-term health outcomes.
The malpractice, long-term-care and medical-expense programs operate in a similar fashion.
And, even more concerning, is the fact that even when that information exists, it is not being shared and captured by the global medical research community in a manner that guarantees widespread dissemination and long-term preservation.
For starters, no insurance company has experience in managing fully integrated care for so many people with complex medical and long-term care needs.
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By the end of the survey period, the youngest people were still only in their sixties and had not yet begun to incur heavy medical and long-term care costs.
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Ms. LITHWICK: Well, I think that the answer is the same reason that he requested medical records of 90 women and girls who received late term abortions in Kansas.
GlobalChoice Healthcare, based in New Mexico, doesn't offer sightseeing assistance or even use the term medical tourism, instead calling itself a medical travel company.
The medical and long-term care systems have a long way to go in their efforts to improve care for the frail elderly and others with severe chronic disease.
Under an agreement with the Obama Administration announced last week, the state will begin shifting both medical care and long-term supports and services to managed care companies in just seven months.
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Bill Mergendahl, Chief Executive of Cambridge-based ProEMS, which sent six ambulances to the scene Monday in Boston, said his fleet transported patients with "traumatic amputations, " the medical term for the accidental severing of all or part of a body part.
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Not having the proper resources to cover long-term care costs can result in a nest egg being used to pay for medical expenses, post-acute institutional care such as that which is provided at a skilled nursing facility, home-health care and other health-related expenses not covered under insurance.
The term was popularized by a public relations firm working for the American Medical Association in 1947 to disparage President Truman's proposal for a national health care system.
Tinnitus is a medical term used to describe a ringing or buzzing noise that people can hear permanently in one ear, both ears or in the head.
Each of these groups is an annual cohort (in other words, their members were all born in the same twelve-month period) established for just this sort of long-term medical investigation.
America is good at looking after its servicemen's health and, in exchange, many of those airmen have agreed to be part of a long-term medical study that looks at all sorts of health-related questions.
However, as more evidence mounts on the long-term effect of concussions, there may well be more pressure from some in the medical community, AAP or not, to take children out of football, ice hockey and other head-shot-risky sports entirely.
When it comes to health problems caused by the disaster in Japan, the lack of medical care, food, and clean water could dwarf the long-term death toll from radiation.
In fact, I devote whole chapters to the short-term benefits of protecting military, police, medical and other sensitive records.
Long-term, "robust" measures - such as greater transparency in information and better traceability of medical devices - would be brought forward in September, he added.
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