http://www.news-insurances.com News-Insurances.com is an independent online media providing the latest insurance news for the insurance industry and consumers Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:02:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.news-insurances.com/study-u-s-medical-programs-report-5-million-children-not-insured/0167311810 http://www.news-insurances.com/study-u-s-medical-programs-report-5-million-children-not-insured/0167311810#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:41:54 +0000 Sofia Ashmore http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=311810 It is estimated that five million uninsured children in the United States were eligible for Medicaid (medical care to the poor, to children and to pregnant women living under the federal poverty level) or the Childrens Health Insurance Program or CHIP (low-cost coverage for children in families who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/study-u-s-medical-programs-report-5-million-children-not-insured/0167311810/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-issues-botox-maker-allergan-to-pay-600-million-dollars/0167298934 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-issues-botox-maker-allergan-to-pay-600-million-dollars/0167298934#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:08:03 +0000 Tom Scott http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=298934 Allergan, the maker of the popular anti-wrinkle treatment Botox, said Wednesday it had agreed to pay 600 million dollars to settle a US probe into marketing for so-called off-label uses. The company said in a statement it agreed to plead guilty to a single misdemeanor “misbranding” charge covering the period 2000 through 2005 and pay [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/health-issues-botox-maker-allergan-to-pay-600-million-dollars/0167298934/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-drugs-interpol-announces-10-tonnes-of-counterfeit-medical-products-seized-in-africa/0167288306 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-drugs-interpol-announces-10-tonnes-of-counterfeit-medical-products-seized-in-africa/0167288306#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:36:27 +0000 Sofia Ashmore http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=288306 A vast police operation coordinated by Interpol in East Africa has led to the seizure of 10 tonnes of counterfeit medical products and more than 80 arrests, Interpol said Thursday. Operation Mamba III targeted crimes in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda under the umbrella of the World Health Organization’s International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/health-drugs-interpol-announces-10-tonnes-of-counterfeit-medical-products-seized-in-africa/0167288306/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-concerns-as-obesity-surgery-soars-in-britain/0167288282 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-concerns-as-obesity-surgery-soars-in-britain/0167288282#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:27:35 +0000 Sofia Ashmore http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=288282 British health campaigners warned Friday that surgery was being seen as an easy option to tackle obesity after new figures showed weight-loss operations have soared here in the past five years. Figures from the state-run National Health Service’s Information Centre showed 4,246 procedures for obesity were carried out in England in 2008-9, up from 480 [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/health-concerns-as-obesity-surgery-soars-in-britain/0167288282/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-new-zealand-still-experiencing-significant-swine-flu/0167253496 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-new-zealand-still-experiencing-significant-swine-flu/0167253496#comments Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:59:56 +0000 Damian Dozol http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=253496 New Zealand is still experiencing a significant level of swine flu, health authorities said Wednesday, despite the World Health Organization’s declaration that the global pandemic was over. “While some countries have seen H1N1 virus decline or crowded out by other strains, this is not the case in New Zealand,” the deputy director of public health, [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/health-new-zealand-still-experiencing-significant-swine-flu/0167253496/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-insurance-656-swine-flu-deaths-in-turkey/0167223294 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-insurance-656-swine-flu-deaths-in-turkey/0167223294#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:41:53 +0000 Damian Dozol http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=223294 Swine flu has killed 656 people in Turkey since October, the health ministry said Thursday. The death toll was given in a statement issued to deny reports that Turkey bought but did not use about 40 million doses of vaccine against the(A)H1N1 virus. “A total of 656 people, confirmed by laboratories (to have been infected), [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/health-insurance-656-swine-flu-deaths-in-turkey/0167223294/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-insurers-win-concession-on-kids-coverage/0167221272 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-insurers-win-concession-on-kids-coverage/0167221272#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:38:39 +0000 Damian Dozol http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=221272 The health insurance industry has won a concession from the Obama administration on insurance coverage for children. The Health and Human Services Department said Wednesday that insurers can set limited sign-up periods for a new kind of guaranteed coverage that is available to children regardless of medical problems. Insurers were concerned the new health care [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/health-insurers-win-concession-on-kids-coverage/0167221272/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-insurance-malaysia-fund-poised-to-win-singapore-health-group-parkway/0167216796 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-insurance-malaysia-fund-poised-to-win-singapore-health-group-parkway/0167216796#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:43:18 +0000 Damian Dozol http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=216796 Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund Khazanah is poised to take over Singapore-based healthcare provider Parkway after Fortis Healthcare of India dropped its own takeover plans on Monday. Integrated Healthcare, a wholly-owned Khazanah unit, announced a sweetened offer worth 3.5 billion Singapore dollars (2.57 billion US) for the remaining shares in Parkway Holdings it does not already [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/health-insurance-malaysia-fund-poised-to-win-singapore-health-group-parkway/0167216796/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-study-inequalities-in-early-deaths-rising-in-britain/0167212488 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-study-inequalities-in-early-deaths-rising-in-britain/0167212488#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:06:16 +0000 Barbara karouski http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=212488 Inequalities in early deaths between different parts of Britain have nearly surpassed those seen shortly before the economic crash of 1929 and the ensuing depression, a new study said Friday. “Inequalities continued to rise steadily during the first decade of the 21st century… and could become worse,” warned the study, published in the British Medical [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/health-study-inequalities-in-early-deaths-rising-in-britain/0167212488/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-prevention-beach-umbrellas-do-not-block-all-solar-radiation/0167210570 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-prevention-beach-umbrellas-do-not-block-all-solar-radiation/0167210570#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:24:19 +0000 Sofia Ashmore http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=210570 Hiding out under a beach umbrella may offer you far less protection from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation than you expect, according to a new study by Spanish researchers. As much as 34 percent of ultraviolet radiation, found to cause skin cancer and cataracts, reaches the ground covered by a beach umbrella, the University of [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/health-prevention-beach-umbrellas-do-not-block-all-solar-radiation/0167210570/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-record-number-of-children-getting-hiv-drugs/0167209146 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-record-number-of-children-getting-hiv-drugs/0167209146#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:30:14 +0000 Sofia Ashmore http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=209146 Life-saving drugs that quell HIV reached a record 355,000 children at the end of last year, compared with 276,000 a year earlier, but more young lives could be saved if antiretroviral treatment began earlier, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday. The figures were released at the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna, where [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/health-record-number-of-children-getting-hiv-drugs/0167209146/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-revoke-avastin-approval-as-breast-cancer-treatment/0167208762 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-revoke-avastin-approval-as-breast-cancer-treatment/0167208762#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:58:32 +0000 Sofia Ashmore http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=208762 A panel of experts on Tuesday recommended that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) withdraw approval of Roche’s best-selling cancer drug Avastin for the treatment of breast cancer. Experts on the advisory panel voted 12 to one to recommend that the FDA remove the indication from Avastin’s label that the drug be used with [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/health-revoke-avastin-approval-as-breast-cancer-treatment/0167208762/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-huge-rise-in-patients-on-hiv-drugs/0167205474 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-huge-rise-in-patients-on-hiv-drugs/0167205474#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:06:09 +0000 George Stobbart http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=205474 Anti-HIV drugs reached 1.2 million more people last year, the UN announced Monday at the world AIDS forum, as former US president Bill Clinton defended Barack Obama’s funding to fight the disease. The increase meant that 5.2 million people had access to drugs to repress HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, the UN’s World Health [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/health-huge-rise-in-patients-on-hiv-drugs/0167205474/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-insurance-italian-surgeons-down-scalpels-to-protest-austerity-plan/0167205460 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-insurance-italian-surgeons-down-scalpels-to-protest-austerity-plan/0167205460#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:54:26 +0000 Sofia Ashmore http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=205460 Italy’s public-sector doctors observed a one-day strike on Monday, notably postponing 40,000 surgical operations in protest at government austerity measures that will freeze hiring at hospitals. Administrative employees and public-sector veterinarians also joined the strike, which did not affect emergency services. “We apologise to the citizens for the disturbances, (but) the precious good of public [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/health-insurance-italian-surgeons-down-scalpels-to-protest-austerity-plan/0167205460/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-care-amnesty-paints-desperate-picture-of-north-korea-system/0167198738 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-care-amnesty-paints-desperate-picture-of-north-korea-system/0167198738#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:55:34 +0000 Sofia Ashmore http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=198738 Surgery without anaesthetics, unsterilised needles and epidemics worsened by malnutrition illustrate the desperate state of North Korea’s health care system, Amnesty International said Thursday. Food shortages have persisted since the 1990s famine and some North Koreans survive partly on grass, tree roots and bark, the international rights group said in a report. The communist state [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/health-care-amnesty-paints-desperate-picture-of-north-korea-system/0167198738/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/travel-insurance-britons-are-better-covered-while-abroad-than-during-the-rest-of-the-year/0167194210 http://www.news-insurances.com/travel-insurance-britons-are-better-covered-while-abroad-than-during-the-rest-of-the-year/0167194210#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:43:33 +0000 George Stobbart http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=194210 As the holiday season approaches and Britons rush to get travel insurance to cover them while abroad, the protection provider Friends Provident is urging people to protect themselves for life, not just while on holiday. New findings reveal that only one third of Brits (31%) have some form of protection cover in the event they [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/travel-insurance-britons-are-better-covered-while-abroad-than-during-the-rest-of-the-year/0167194210/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-insurance-health-secretary-kathleen-sebelius-urges-insurers-to-plug-gap/0167187780 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-insurance-health-secretary-kathleen-sebelius-urges-insurers-to-plug-gap/0167187780#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:06:32 +0000 Barbara karouski http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=187780 Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who has bashed insurers over rate increases, is seeking their help in making medical coverage accessible for more patients in the years before major reforms take effect. Sebelius, in an interview with Reuters, said she is pushing companies to help people gain insurance in the gap between now and 2014. That [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/health-insurance-health-secretary-kathleen-sebelius-urges-insurers-to-plug-gap/0167187780/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-insurance-32000-lives-could-be-saved-with-colonoscopy/0167182760 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-insurance-32000-lives-could-be-saved-with-colonoscopy/0167182760#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:38:47 +0000 Sofia Ashmore http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=182760 Around 32,000 lives could be saved each year if people over 50 got regular colorectal cancer screening as recommended, the US Centers for Disease Control said Tuesday. The disease is the second leading cause of deaths in the United States after lung cancer, but millions of people “still have not had recommended screening,” according to [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/health-insurance-32000-lives-could-be-saved-with-colonoscopy/0167182760/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-insurance-premiums-for-uninsured-americans-wont-be-cheap/0167175196 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-insurance-premiums-for-uninsured-americans-wont-be-cheap/0167175196#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:00:25 +0000 Barbara karouski http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=175196 President Barack Obama’s new health coverage for uninsured Americans with health problems won’t be cheap, premiums averaging $300 to $600 a month in the largest states, according to a government website that went live Thursday. From cheaper to most expensive, premiums will range from a $140 a month to as much as $900, Richard Popper, [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/health-insurance-premiums-for-uninsured-americans-wont-be-cheap/0167175196/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-insurance-google-strengthens-benefits-for-gay-or-lesbian-workers/0167175126 http://www.news-insurances.com/health-insurance-google-strengthens-benefits-for-gay-or-lesbian-workers/0167175126#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:22:59 +0000 Sofia Ashmore http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=175126 Google on Thursday improved health and family leave benefits for its US employees with same-sex domestic partners. The Internet titan began adjusting the pay of workers in such relationships to offset income tax paid on health insurance benefits extended to partners, according to Cynthia Yeung of the firm’s strategic development team. The California company also [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/health-insurance-google-strengthens-benefits-for-gay-or-lesbian-workers/0167175126/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/taiwan-minister-sorry-for-linking-singles-to-mental-illness/016762806 http://www.news-insurances.com/taiwan-minister-sorry-for-linking-singles-to-mental-illness/016762806#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:09:54 +0000 Damian Dozol http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=62806 Taiwan’s health minister apologised Thursday after he came under fire for suggesting single people should pay more health insurance because they have a higher risk of mental illness. “I apologise. I should not have used the term ‘mental illness’, which is very sensitive,” Yaung Chih-liang told a news conference. Yaung angered lawmakers at a briefing [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/taiwan-minister-sorry-for-linking-singles-to-mental-illness/016762806/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/it%e2%80%99s-official-lazy-and-untidy-men-are-one-of-the-biggest-sources-of-irritation-for-britain%e2%80%99s-women/016730626 http://www.news-insurances.com/it%e2%80%99s-official-lazy-and-untidy-men-are-one-of-the-biggest-sources-of-irritation-for-britain%e2%80%99s-women/016730626#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:44:22 +0000 Barbara karouski http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=30626 A poll of a thousand people by online car insurance company swiftcover.com found that: 47% of women get impatient with untidy partners compared with just 25% of men 30% of women get impatient with partners that do not help out around the house, compared with only 10% of men And while an equal number of [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/it%e2%80%99s-official-lazy-and-untidy-men-are-one-of-the-biggest-sources-of-irritation-for-britain%e2%80%99s-women/016730626/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/bulgaria-drops-plans-to-raise-health-insurance/016730330 http://www.news-insurances.com/bulgaria-drops-plans-to-raise-health-insurance/016730330#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:30:29 +0000 Damian Dozol http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=30330 Public pressure prompted Bulgaria’s cash-strapped government on Wednesday to drop plans to raise health insurance payments and seek other ways to support its under-funded hospitals. Prime Minister Boyko Borisov’s cabinet voted last week to increase monthly health payments for all citizens by 2.0 percentage points to 10 percent of their income in order to pump [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/bulgaria-drops-plans-to-raise-health-insurance/016730330/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/aviva-uk-health-launches-new-group-critical-illness-product/016728418 http://www.news-insurances.com/aviva-uk-health-launches-new-group-critical-illness-product/016728418#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:02:27 +0000 Barbara karouski http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=28418 Aviva UK Health today announced that it is enhancing its group risk proposition with a new group critical illness product. This addition and its ability to offer health and wellbeing products means that Aviva now offers one of the widest breadth of product offerings amongst the top four group risk providers. The group critical illness [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/aviva-uk-health-launches-new-group-critical-illness-product/016728418/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/57-of-employees-don%e2%80%99t-think-that-their-doctor-is-qualified-to-judge-them-fit-for-work/016728324 http://www.news-insurances.com/57-of-employees-don%e2%80%99t-think-that-their-doctor-is-qualified-to-judge-them-fit-for-work/016728324#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:21:21 +0000 Sofia Ashmore http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=28324 The business benefits of the Government’s new “Fit Notes” scheme is being called into question by a new 360 degree study of UK businesses and their employees. The “early intervention prevention” study by Aviva UK Health shows that business owners and workers are dubious about how Fit Notes will be brought into effect in April [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/57-of-employees-don%e2%80%99t-think-that-their-doctor-is-qualified-to-judge-them-fit-for-work/016728324/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/metlife-introduce-tiered-solutionsm-a-graded-automatic-inflation-protection-rider/016727220 http://www.news-insurances.com/metlife-introduce-tiered-solutionsm-a-graded-automatic-inflation-protection-rider/016727220#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:04:17 +0000 Barbara karouski http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=27220 As part of continuing efforts to help consumers find long-term care (LTC) insurance solutions that best meet their diverse needs, MetLife today announced that it has introduced Tiered SolutionSM, a graded automatic inflation protection rider available with MetLife LTC LifeStage AdvantageSM. “According to the MetLife Mature Market Institute, the average annual rate for a home [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/metlife-introduce-tiered-solutionsm-a-graded-automatic-inflation-protection-rider/016727220/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/bulgaria-ups-health-tax-to-fund-hospitals/016725990 http://www.news-insurances.com/bulgaria-ups-health-tax-to-fund-hospitals/016725990#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:58:08 +0000 Damian Dozol http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=25990 Bulgaria’s government voted Wednesday to raise health insurance payments in a move to end doctors’ protests and pump more money into its underfunded hospitals. The right-wing government voted to increase monthly health payments for all citizens by 2.0 percentage points to 10 percent of their income, Finance Minister Simeon Djankov said.”This is a difficult and [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/bulgaria-ups-health-tax-to-fund-hospitals/016725990/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/public-health-minister-gillian-merron-announces-new-programme-to-reduce-health-inequalities/016713683 http://www.news-insurances.com/public-health-minister-gillian-merron-announces-new-programme-to-reduce-health-inequalities/016713683#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:24:58 +0000 Barbara karouski http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=13683 A new programme in thirty areas of the country will support the health service and local public sector organisations to work together to reduce inequalities by tackling local challenges. Healthy Places, Healthy Lives will encourage local leadership on the health inequalities agenda and share learning, meaning that health inequalities becomes everybody’s business, Public Health Minister [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/public-health-minister-gillian-merron-announces-new-programme-to-reduce-health-inequalities/016713683/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/what-a-health-cash-plan-for/016712245 http://www.news-insurances.com/what-a-health-cash-plan-for/016712245#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:49:43 +0000 Barbara karouski http://www.news-insurances.com/?p=12245 Health cash plans provide limited cash sums towards everyday healthcare bills. Different policies cover one or a combination of healthcare such as dental care, optical care, physiotherapy, or stays in hospital. So for example a policy will pay out a maximum of £100 per year towards optical care bills you have incurred, and £10 for [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/what-a-health-cash-plan-for/016712245/feed 0 http://www.news-insurances.com/how-to-protect-your-health/01678658 http://www.news-insurances.com/how-to-protect-your-health/01678658#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:42:12 +0000 Sofia Ashmore http://www.news-insurances.com/how-to-protect-your-health/01678658 Every UK resident is entitled to free healthcare from the NHS, but you may want health insurance so that you can have a choice in the level of care you get, where you get treated, when you get treated, or if you didn’t want to use the NHS. The following products are designed for these [...]]]> http://www.news-insurances.com/how-to-protect-your-health/01678658/feed 0