Category: health

MEwens
Wall Street Journal health blogger Katherine Hobson will take questions from readers in a live chat on Monday, Nov. 1 about the TEDMED conference in San Diego.  Ask your questions now.
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MEwens
Wall Street Journal health blogger Katherine Hobson will take questions from readers in a live chat on Monday, Nov. 1 about the TEDMED conference in San Diego.  Ask your questions now.
Read more this great post here

JGrimes
There are some harsh words for Democrats trying to overhaul health care in the Washinton Post this morning.
Comprehensive health care has been lost. If it fails, as appears possible, Democrats will face the brunt of the electorate’s reaction. If it passes, however, Democrats will face a far greater calamitous reaction at the polls. […]

Jaan Sidorov
Over the next couple of months the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will be hosting the Exploring Privacy: A Roundtable Services.
The roundtable discussions are day-long public roundtable discussions to explore the privacy challenges posed by the vast array of 21st century technology and business practices that collect and use consumer data.
The FTC indicates […]

JGrimes
An article in today’s WSJ goes through the numbers explaining why restricting insurance coverage for abortions as now being debated on Capitol Hill would do little in practical terms to change the affordability of abortion for the vast majority of women.
Yet the financial impact of the restrictions — the House’s overhaul bill, H.R.3962, […]

John Goodman
Below is a visual of the top 500 words used in HR 3962: Affordable Health Care for America Act. Since most people (including many of our representatives in Washington) haven’t read all 1,990 pages of the Health Care Reform Bill, I thought a visual aid might be helpful.
I had been thinking of […]

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The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) unveiled a website for sharing information and updates specific to West Virginia about the H1N1 Flu also known as Swine Flu. The website has information for prevention, schools, businesses, parents and providers.
The new West Virginia H1N1 (Swine) Flu Resource Center can be […]

John Goodman
Yesterday, April 8, 2009, President Obama signed an executive order formally creating a new a href=”http://www.google.com/search?source=igamp;hl=enamp;rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS245amp;=amp;q=%22White+House+Office+of+Health+Reform%22amp;btnG=Google+Searchamp;aq=famp;oq=”White House Office of Health Reform/a.br /br /The a href=”http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/04/08/obama_makes_it_formal_for_heal.html?wprss=44″Washington Post/a provide additional information, including the complete text of the Executive Order and that former Clinton administration official, a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy-Ann_Min_DeParle”Nancy-Ann DeParle/a (a href=”http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_administration/nancy-ann-deparle/”White House bio/a) will oversee […]

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The a href=”http://health.nytimes.com/pages/health/index.html”New York Times Health/a section in the article, a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/health/30online.html?_r=2amp;ref=healthamp;oref=sloginamp;oref=slogin””Logging On for a Second (or Third) Opinion,”/a examines the changing world of online health information search.br /br /As the article points out we are moving from a “search and read” web to a “search, share and interact” web. As […]

Scott MacStravic
The Death Spiral, courtesy of the WSJ Health Blog.
Great graphic which highlights advice from my dad, a retired physician in West Virginia, who always warned us of such risks. He would say, “eat better, eat less, take small bites, drive defensively with two hands on the wheel, don’t climb ladders and be […]