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Medicare, Medicaid Head Rallies Insurance Companies
CMS administrator Donald Berwick has asked the insurance industry to work in good faith to implement healthcare reform in a timely manner. Dr. Berwick made his plea at a Medicare conference sponsored...
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HHS Awards $100 Million to Public Health Initiatives
Thanks to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Department of Health and Human Services is awarding nearly $100 million in grants to support locally based public health and prevention...
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CDC Sets Six “Winnable Battles” for Americans’ Health
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified six priorities to keep the nation healthy – or what its director, Dr. Thomas Frieden, calls “winnable battles”. The six are smoking,...
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New Study Cites Setbacks in Women’s Health Issues
More American women are binge drinking and not being screened for potentially deadly diseases such as cervical cancer, according to a new study by the National Women’s Law Center and the Oregon Health...
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New Medical School Bases Its Curriculum on Community Care
To combat the nation’s severe doctor shortage, five new medical schools have opened since 2009 and an additional 10 are in the process of receiving accreditation. In addition to producing badly needed...
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New Study Ranks Healthiness in the Nation’s 3,016 Counties
A study led by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has ranked the level of healthiness in the more than 3,000 counties that comprise the United States. Conducted with the assistance of the University of...
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Poor Education Can Lead to Alzheimer’s
As many as 50 percent of Alzheimer’s cases worldwide could be avoided if risk factors such as depression, obesity and smoking were eliminated, either with lifestyle changes or treatment of underlying...
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Americans Spend More on Healthcare Than Comparable Nations
The United States spends far more on healthcare than other countries, although Americans visit the doctor and are hospitalized less often than most of the other 34 member countries of the Organization...
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New York Controversy Emerges Over Food Portion Size Campaign
The New York City Department of Health recently launched a campaign to get New Yorkers to make their waistlines smaller by controlling their portion sizes when ordering food and beverages. “Consuming...
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Just How Fat Are We?
In the race to create the most addictive app (or maybe it’s a next-generation Angry Birds game) the BBC has launched an online Biomass Meter that tells you where the percentile where you fall in terms...
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