Scott Hensley

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Name: Scott Hensley

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

Boomer Housemates Have More Fun

Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approximately 9:00 a.m. ET. Today more than 1 in every 3 baby boomers — that huge glut of people born between 1948 and 1964 — is unmarried. And those unmarried boomers are disproportionately ... [Published NPR - 3 hours ago]

Entities: AARP, National Public Radio, Scott Hensley

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

National Public Radio

A Catch For Insurers That Cut Deductibles For Healthy People

Health insurance deductibles typically only go one direction: up.It's not unusual for people these days to be responsible for paying thousands of dollars in medical claims before most plan benefits kick in.Rewards to policyholders for claims that don't ... [Published NPR - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Affordable Care Act, National Public Radio, Golden Rule Insurance Company

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

WellPoint Inc

Latest Health Hurdle: Buying Insurance Without A Bank Account

Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approximately 7:00 p.m. ET. When movie stars become unbankable, they're no longer a slam dunk at the box office. When investments become unbankable, they're relegated to the Wall Street's ... [Published NPR - May 20 2013]

Entities: WellPoint Inc, National Public Radio, Scott Hensley, Health Insurance

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

The Unsafe Sex: Should The World Invest More In Men's Health?

On average, men aren't as healthy as women.Men don't live as long, and they're more likely to engage in risky behaviors, like smoking and drinking.But in the past decade, global health funding has focused heavily on women.Programs and policies for men ... [Published NPR - May 18 2013]

Entities: Sex, Mortality, Global Health, National Public Radio

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Koninklijke DSM NV

Experts Agree: 'Psychiatry's Bible' Is No Bible

When the American Psychiatric Association releases it's new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) this weekend, lots of journalists and commentators will refer to it as "psychiatry's bible."That's a term that makes the manual's ... [Published NPR - May 17 2013]

Entities: Koninklijke DSM NV, Thomas Insel, National Public Radio, Scott Hensley

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Breast Cancer, Risk And Women's Imperfect Choices

Just about anything that Angelina Jolie does is pretty much guaranteed to make news. But her announcement that she had decided on a preventive double mastectomy to reduce her unusually high risk of cancer sparked an outpouring of passionate comment on ... [Published NPR - May 15 2013]

Entities: Risk (Health), Breast Cancer, National Public Radio, Scott Hensley, Preventive Double Mastectomy

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Feds Push For Lower Alcohol Thresholds For Drivers

To curb drunken driving, the federal National Transportation Safety Board has voted to recommend that states tighten the legal limit for drivers' blood alcohol.The threshold now for drunken driving is a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 percent. (The ... [Published NPR - May 14 2013]

Entities: National Transportation Safety Board, Alcohol, Push

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

How A Florida Medical School Cares For Communities In Need

Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approximately 7:00 p.m. ET. If it's a Monday, you can usually find Dr. David Brown parked next to a lake in Miami, spending the day inside a 36-foot-long RV. He's not on vacation.Brown ... [Published NPR - May 14 2013]

Entities: David Brown, Communities, Florida International University

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Teens Who Text And Drive Often Take Other Risks

Almost half of teenagers cop to texting while driving. And those texting teens are more likely to make other risky moves while in the car, too.That includes not wearing seat belts, drinking and driving, and riding with a driver who's been drinking, a ... [Published NPR - May 13 2013]

Entities: Thomas R Frieden, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Public Radio, Car Accidents, Scott Hensley

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Judge Denies Administration's Request To Delay Plan-B Ruling

The U.S. District Court judge who last month ordered the Food and Drug Administration to make the most popular forms of the emergency contraceptive pill available over-the-counter with no age restrictions has denied the government's request to stay his ... [Published NPR - May 10 2013]

Entities: FDA Food & Drug Administration, National Public Radio, Scott Hensley

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Medicare Report Reveals Cost Of Common Medical...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe OnlineThe amount that hospitals charge the US government for common inpatient procedures – and the amount that those medical facilities receive for services rendered – varies greatly, according to information ... [Published Red Orbit - May 10 2013]

Entities: Medicare, Health Care, Pneumonia, Scott Hensley

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Price Break For Cervical Cancer Shots In Developing World

Cervical cancer takes its greatest toll in the countries whose economies and health systems are poorest.Women in those places are less likely than those in rich countries to get regular Pap tests to detect the cancers when it can be treated effective ... [Published NPR - May 09 2013]

Entities: CERVICAL CANCER, GAVI Alliance, Vaccine, Developing World

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