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Study: Despite earlier deaths, obese pay higher medical bills
New research suggests that young adults in their 20s who are as little as 30 pounds overweight may pay lifetime medical bills that are $5,000 to $21,000 higher than their normal-weight. Meanwhile, Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Number of uninsured young people rises; Study shows problems in physician EMR adoption; and much more...
> New research suggests that the number of young adults going without health insurance rose again in 2006, with 34 percent of college graduates spending some time uninsured in the year after Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Rise in midlife suicides puzzles researchers
Of late, society has paid a great deal more attention to the growth of suicides among adolescents and young adults, but less attention has been paid to suicidal tendencies among middle-aged Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Anticholesterol, hypertension meds up in young adults
In recent times, the percentage of young adults taking anticholesterol and hypertension drugs has grown substantially. Reasons for the growth include not only rising rates of hypertension, obesity Read more...
Report: Young adults swell ranks of the uninsured
About 30 percent of the nation's estimated 44.4 million people without health insurance are 19-29 years old, making young adults the largest group of newly uninsured, according to a Commonwealth Fund Read more...
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