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Fertility Centers Of Illinois Crystal Lake Location Expands To Offer Holistic Treatments
Fertility Centers of Illinois (FCI), Crystal Lake location - part of one of the nation"s leading infertility treatment practices - has expanded its services to include an array of holistic treatments such as acupuncture, massage and nutrition counseling, in addition to free patient education seminars. FCI recognizes the growing benefits of integrating holistic therapies with medical treatment and with an increasing demand from patients, has extended its partnership with Pulling Down The Moon to create the first holistic center located within the fertility clinic.
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Few Retail Health Clinics Located In Low-Income Areas, Study Finds
Most retail health clinics are located in more affluent areas of the U.S., rather than in low-income, medically underserved neighborhoods, according to a study published on Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine, the AP/Washington Times reports. For the study, researchers mapped 930 retail clinics operating in 2008 and used U.S. census data to evaluate the overall income and racial characteristics of the neighborhoods where clinics were located. In counties with at least one retail health clinic, researchers compared census areas with and without retail clinics. According to the study, 123 clinics were in communities classified by the federal government as medically underserved. Communities with clinics had lower percentages of black and Hispanic residents, lower poverty rates, higher homeownership rates and higher median incomes, according to the study.Ateev Mehrotra of the University of Pittsburgh said, "Many people have promoted retail clinics as a cure for access to care for the underserved," adding, "These findings show that"s unlikely to happen." Lead study author Craig Pollack of the University of Pennsylvania said the study"s results suggest financial incentives might be needed to bring clinics to low-income communities (Johnson, AP/Washington Times, 5/26).
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The National Autistic Society, urged that new reforms should not be allowed further marginalise people with disabilities, including autism, in a bid to fulfil a black hole in social care funding.
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Lawmakers Seek Price Tag They Can Agree On

"Lawmakers working to overhaul the U.S. health-care system face a pressure-filled July after leaving town this week without resolving the biggest questions dividing Democrats and Republicans," Bloomberg reports. Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee - which observers deem most likely to come up with a passable, bipartisan bill - have been working to reduce the cost of the overhaul to gain Republican support, but had not yet released a proposal. Bloomberg adds: "While the Congressional Budget Office said options under consideration by the committee can keep the cost within Baucus"s goal of $1 trillion over 10 years, how to pay for the plan remains unsettled. So is structuring some kind of government-run competition for insurers. ... "Nothing has been set," Montana Democrat [Max] Baucus told reporters in the Capitol on June 25. The recess offers a chance for "taking stock," he said" (Jensen and Livkin, 6/29). Meanwhile, two leading Democrats who aren"t members of Congress, former Obama transition chief and Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta, and former Senate Majority Leader and Obama"s former nominee for health secretary, Tom Daschle, "outlined a framework for financing a $1.2 trillion health care" over the next decade, enough to cover the expected costs of the reform bill, USA Today reports. The plan, released by Podesta"s Center for American Progress, would raise $400 billion each from Medicare and Medicaid reductions, new taxes, and expected savings from modernizing the health system (Page, 6/29). Daschle and Podesta also told reporters Monday that using "reconciliation," a Senate procedural tactic that could mute Republican opposition by preventing a filibuster, should remain on the table for Democrats, and that Senate Republicans were demanding too many sacrifices in their calls for a bipartisan compromise, the Associated Press/USA Today reports. "There is a point at which you have to move on," Podesta said (6/29). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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