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Cancer Rates

Posted on February 20, 2008
CNN.Com reports on the increase number of cancer deaths in 2005 although the overall death rate from cancer continued to decline. The story states, U.S. cancer deaths rose by more than 5,000 in 2005, a somewhat disappointing reversal of a...

Largest Meat Recall: Only a Few Years Too Late

Posted on February 18, 2008
The New York Times reports today on the largest meat recall ever!! I feel safer - my government at work etc. but unfortunately this appears to be a little late - I certainly don't have meat in my freezer from...

Being Poor and Uninsured: Not a Healthy Combination

Posted on February 18, 2008
The New York Times reports today on an American Cancer Society study illuminating the disadvantages of being without health insurance - later cancer diagnosis. The Times' Kevin Sack states, A nationwide study has found that the uninsured and those covered...

Happy Valentine's Day Privacy Rights - Love From the Fifth Circuit

Posted on February 14, 2008
What terrific timing! The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals overturns the Texas ban on sex toys just in time for Valentine's Day! I am sure that this will make some people's day really special! Even more fun could be in...

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Health Insurers in the Spotlight

Posted on February 14, 2008
The LA Times reports on the recent investigations of health insurers. Lisa Girion writes, With medical costs rising, record numbers of people losing their coverage and healthcare at the top of the domestic agenda, health insurers found themselves Wednesday in...

Prescription Drug Errors

Posted on February 13, 2008
Just when you thought it was safe to start taking drugs again (I mean - we will be getting a new President soon and hopefully he or she will want to increase the funding and re-think the staffing for the...

Ezra Klein on Insurers

Posted on February 13, 2008
Ezra Klein has a great post today on why insurance companies pose a problem for the provision of health care in our country and ways to solve this problem. He writes, Lets start from a basic proposition: In the current...

Doctors and Insurance Companies and Confidentiality of Your Health Information

Posted on February 12, 2008
The LA Times reports on doctors in California refusing to comply with a request from Blue Cross of California that they provide information on a patient's pre-existing condition. Lisa Girion writes, The state's largest for-profit health insurer is asking California...

Flu Pandemic Preparation for Hospitals

Posted on February 11, 2008
DailyKos has a great article by DemFromCt on the preparation or lack of preparation that hospitals have undertaken for the next flu pandemic - complete with lots of helpful charts and graphs. The article is an eyeopening read on how...

The Canadian Health Care MythBuster

Posted on February 11, 2008
Here is a great link to a website that discusses the Canadian Health Care system and de-bunks some of the myths surrounding it. Here is just a brief sample: 1. Canada's health care system is "socialized medicine." False. In socialized...

Book Quiz: Just for Fun on a Friday

Posted on February 08, 2008
Here is fun Book Quiz by BluePyramid for you to take to learn which book best represents you and your future. It is only six questions. I ended up as, "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe," by CS Lewis...

10 Ways to Change our Health Care System

Posted on February 08, 2008
LiveSmarter has an interesting post detailing ten different ideas to help improve our health care system from 10 experts. Here is a brief selection: 1. Mend the medical schools Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and...

Modern Music: Your Parents Were Right!

Posted on February 07, 2008
The New York Times reports this week on the "dangers" of modern music which our children spend hours a day listening today. The story says, Teenagers listen to an average of nearly 2.5 hours of music per day. Guess what...

Rating Your Doctor: Cost v. Quality of Care

Posted on February 07, 2008
The Wall Street Journal's Health Blog reports on Tennessee BlueCross BlueShield's adoption of doctor rating. Jacob Goldstein reports, The debate over insurers rating doctors encapsulates a lot of what people are fighting over in health care these days: Who should...

Costly People to Cover -- Healthy People

Posted on February 06, 2008
PLoS Medicine published a study by Dutch scientists whichprovides an overview of how much obesity costs the nation. It has received some (see AP article here) because its conclusions about the cost of the obese are not quite what people...

Climate Change and the Spread of Disease

Posted on February 06, 2008
Slate.com has an interesting piece discussing the what impact, if any, climate change may have on the spread of various diseases. Maria Said writes, Before the summer of 2007, Castiglione di Cervia, Italy, was known as a quiet village near...

Bush Budget: Cuts for Medicare and Medicaid

Posted on February 04, 2008
The Wall Street Journal's Health Blog provides a concise overview of the Bush budget for Medicare and Medicaid. Ms. Wang writes, Medicare spending needs to be reigned in, the Bush administration makes clear in its budget proposal for fiscal year...

SEIU Puts Money Behind Universal Health Care

Posted on February 04, 2008
Ezra Klein updates us on the push for universal health care - writing about the recent decision of the SEIU to spend $75 million promoting universal health care (Take that Harry and Louise!). He writes, It's a really big deal...

Bad Public Health Initiative

Posted on February 01, 2008
The blog, JunkFood Science reports on a Mississippi legislator's attempt to combat the obesity epidemic: banning restaurants from serving food to anyone who is "obese" (a term defined by the State of Mississippi). If the restaurants fail to comply, their...

More News on Chocolate . . .

Posted on February 01, 2008
Slate.com's Medical Examiner's "Your Health This Week" column concerns whether chocolate is bad for women's bones. (Yikes - say it isn't so!) Slate reports: Question: One of the plusses of chocolate is that it contains materials called flavonoids. These are...

Balancing the Budget through Medicare and Medicaid Cuts

Posted on January 31, 2008
The New York Times reports today on President Bush's announcement that he will "call for large cuts in the growth of Medicare, far exceeding what he proposed last year, and he will again seek major savings in Medicaid." Health care...

Lifetime Benefit Caps

Posted on January 31, 2008
TPM Cafe's Cindy Zeldin has a great discussion of today's Washington Post article on the issues and problems surrounding lifetime benefit caps on insurance spending. She writes, Today?s Washington Post explores lifetime benefit caps, provisions of most private health insurance...

Volunteer Opportunity for ACS

Posted on January 30, 2008
The American Constitution Society has requested volunteers to help with their "Constitution in the Classroom" program. From their website: CALLING ALL CLASSROOM VOLUNTEERS!ACS is pleased to announce the expansion of one of our signature programs: Constitution in the Classroom, which...

Death Without Dignity

Posted on January 30, 2008
Ezra Klein points us toward a post by Andrew Kline about his father and his father's cancer. Mr. Kline writes about his frustration and concern he experiences as he deals with the medical treatment his father has received. He provides...

The NewsHour and Health Care

Posted on January 29, 2008
This week the NewsHour is running a series on the upcoming primary states and issues that are important to voters in each state. The first state under review was New Jersey and the focus was health care. It was a...

The Upcoming Silver Tsunami and Medical School Training

Posted on January 29, 2008
Reuters reports on medical schools responding to an increasing aging population by adding more courses in geriatric care. The article reports, Just a few years ago, a graduate from Brown University medical school had just an inkling about how to...

Junk Food Diet and Violence

Posted on January 29, 2008
The Independent (UK) reports on a new Oxford University study of British prisons that reviews prison diets and prisoner behavior to determine whether a link exists between diet and behavior. The Independent reports, Some of Britain's most challenging young prisoners...

That Kinoki FootPad Ad --

Posted on January 25, 2008
I don't know how many of you have seen the ad for the Kinoki footpad detoxication system but Revere- at Effect Measure viewed the ad and posts how just watching it makes him feel -- well -- perhaps we should...

SuperBowl Pepsi Ad by EnAble

Posted on January 25, 2008
While you are waiting for next weekend's Superbowl festivities, Shakesville helpfully highlights a youtube of the new Pepsi ad that will be aired during that primetime event. EnAble a group within PepsiCo which supports diversity and the inclusion of persons...

Medicinal Marijuana and the Workplace: The Drug is Still Illegal

Posted on January 24, 2008
Today, the California Supreme Court ruled that the California Compassionate Use Act of 1996 did not prevent an employer from firing a new employee who failed a preemployment drug test. The case is Ross v. Ragingwire Telecommunications, Inc., S138130 (CA...

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