Nov 05 ‘The President Is Ill’: How Health Has Impacted the U.S. Presidency For Ann Romney, it started as it has for millions of Americans. Numbness. Dizziness. "Foggy brain." Simple things that, when combined, added up to a startling diagnosis: Multiple sclerosis. After a year of aggressive intravenous steroid treatment in… Continue reading
Nov 02 Health Care Workers Brace for New Cholera Outbreaks in Haiti By Fred de Sam Lazaro PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Hurricane Sandy might have saved its fullest fury for America's mid-Atlantic coast, but its earlier blows in the Caribbean wreaked havoc in Haiti. Already struggling to recover from the effects of Hurricane Isaac in August,… Continue reading
Nov 02 Haiti Battles Hurricane Sandy and Cholera By Larisa Epatko More than 50 people have died in Haiti from Hurricane Sandy, which hit the Caribbean island in late October, washing away crops and threatening to worsen a cholera epidemic. Continue reading
Nov 01 How Next President Could Change Health Law By mcarey On the presidential campaign trail, Republican Mitt Romney has repeatedly called for repeal of the 2010 health law and President Barack Obama has vowed to implement it. Yet both men could face obstacles: Romney may be stymied by the… Continue reading
Oct 31 China’s Chances of Kicking a Growing Smoking Habit When China's top politicians gather early next month to pick the country's new leaders, one issue likely to be missing from the agenda is the single largest killer of Chinese people -- their smoking habit. As with any issue… Continue reading
Oct 29 As Diets Change in Greece, Obesity Becomes Growing Problem In the next installment of the "Food for 9 Billion" series, Jon Miller of Homelands Productions examines how Greece has come to have one of the world's highest obesity rates despite a native diet that is… Continue reading
Oct 26 Waste in U.S. Health Care: Your First-Hand Accounts According to the Institute of Medicine, about 30 percent of U.S. health care spending (about $750 billion) was wasted in 2009 on unnecessary services, excessive administrative costs, fraud and other problems. It's a problem that touches nearly every American… Continue reading
Oct 25 Should Hospitals Eliminate Waiting Rooms? To hear Dr. Robert Mecklenburg tell it, the conversation was the first time in his career as a physician that he'd felt ashamed. It happened over 10 years ago when he and a group of his fellow doctors took… Continue reading
Oct 24 Watch Rooting Out Waste in Health Care by Taking Cue From Toyota Assembly Lines Rooting Out Waste in Health Care by Taking Cue From Toyota Assembly Lines… Continue watching
Oct 24 What the U.S. Could Buy With Wasted Health Care Money Imagine an America where the entire business community took its cues from the health care system. Need some help picturing it? According to the respected Institute of Medicine, it's an industry that wasted $750 billion in 2009 between… Continue reading