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"Waiting Room": Hundreds a Day Seek Hospital of 'Last Resort'

09/25/2012 at 5:18 pm

Stockbyte/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Eric Morgan, in his 20s and planning to get married, arrives at Highland Hospital's emergency room, shaken that he has been diagnosed with a testicular tumor that is likely cancer.

Surgeons at a private hospital have turned him away for lack of insurance but tell him it's "urgent" he get care.

Demia Bruce -- out of work for a year -- anxiously waits in the same ER with his 5-year-old daughter, her face swollen and burning with fever. read more ≫


Leaders Less Stressed Due to Sense of Control, Researchers Find

09/25/2012 at 11:51 am

Colorblind/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A group of researchers from Stanford University and Harvard University found that higher-level leaders had less stress than non-leaders or lower-level leaders, upending a common perception that decision-makers experience more anxiety.

The paper, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday by academics in the fields of psychology, business and public policy, measured stress by the stress hormone cortisol, and a series of interviews.  read more ≫


Are Rising Health Costs Undermining Obama Pledge?

09/25/2012 at 11:19 am

Creatas Images/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Two new independent studies of health insurance premiums and health care spending indicate both are rising at an accelerated pace, despite President Obama’s 2008 promise to contain those costs and his pledge that his health care legislation would reduce premiums.

Spending on health care rose 4.6 percent in 2011 — up $4,500 per person, on average — according to the nonpartisan Health Care Cost Institute. That’s up from a 3.8 growth rate in 2010. read more ≫


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