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
Oct 24 Seven Factors Driving Up Your Health Care Costs There is no one villain in the battle against rising health care costs. Currently, the United States spends more on health care services than any other country, exceeding $2.6 trillion, or about 18 percent of gross domestic product. Most years,… Continue reading
Oct 23 How to Make Your Hospital Stay Safer and Cheaper: A Checklist EmbedVideo(4783, 482, 304); Elizabeth Bailey made quite a few assumptions when her father developed double vision and needed to see the doctor. She thought that he would receive the proper diagnosis and prescription dosage, to name just two. Continue reading
Oct 22 Watch How to Make Your Hospital Stay Safer and Cheaper Elizabeth Bailey talks with Hari Sreenivasan about her book, "The Patient's Checklist."… Continue watching
Oct 22 Health Costs: How the U.S. Compares With Other Countries By Jason Kane How much is good health care worth to you? $8,233 per year? That's how much the U.S. spends per person. Worth it? That figure is more than two-and-a-half times more than most developed nations in the world, including relatively rich… Continue reading