Insurer denies coverage for fertility doctor facing lawsuit

Insurer denies coverage for fertility doctor facing lawsuit.

Indian minister denies plan for nurse practitioners to fill doctor gap.

The Indian government has no current plans to introduce nurse practitioners, Arun Kumar Panda, additional secretary at the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, has said. Clarifying earlier reports in the media, Panda told The BMJ that allowing nurses to prescribe some drugs was simply one of many possible solutions that the government was considering to address the shortage of doctors in rura...

Fertility preservation for boys and adolescents facing sterilizing medical therapy

Improvements in childhood cancer survival have allowed boys and their families to increasingly focus on quality of life after therapy, particularly their future ability to father children. Treatments should maintain comprehensive cancer care goals and consider the long-term quality of life of these children. While semen cryopreservation is a well-established method of fertility preservation for...

Women's Health Coverage Since the ACA: Improvements for Most, But Insurer Exclusions Put Many at Risk.

Issue: Since enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), many more women have health insurance than before the law, in part because it prohibits insurer practices that discriminate against women. However, gaps in women's health coverage persist. Insurers often exclude health services that women are likely to need, leaving women vulnerable to higher costs and denied claims that threaten their ec...

Endogenous Versus Exogenous Growth Facing a Fertility Shock

This paper simulates the impact of a permanent fertility shock on economic growth, using endogenous versus exogenous growth OLG models. An endogenous growth model, with education as the engine of growth, dampens the negative impact of a decline in fertility on growth when compared with an exogenous growth model. This result stems from the rise in education levels brought about by the expectatio...