Articles tagged with health-care

Communities with more primary care doctors enjoy better health, yet those physicians are a dying breed. Here is what some schools are doing to combat the looming shortage.

Double-blind trials have long been considered the gold standard to determine drugs’ effectiveness. Do we need to rethink that assumption, given the power of the placebo effect?

The upcoming U.S. Supreme Court debate on health-care reform offers a prime time to start televising its hearings and allowing cameras in the courtroom.

A large-scale study suggests 9/11-related stress led to a major increase in health problems across the U.S.

Swamped with patients and hit hard by state cuts to Medicaid, community health clinics struggle to make ends meet in the recession.

Advocates look to expand programs that address a legacy of the Pol Pot era: an epidemic of heart disease, diabetes and stroke among Cambodian-Americans.

Keeping individual health information private is good thing, but so is aggregating that data to improve care in general. Can those competing good ideas find a happy medium?

Contrary to popular belief, people who live longer are healthier and have fewer medical bills. Obese people, however, are living longer with health care costs increasing at an alarming rate. So efforts to prolong vitality are not, in themselves, an economic Frankenstein.

It’s the president of the free-market-minded Galen Institute versus a pediatrician/activist for a single-payer system in spirited debate on improving American health care.

One small step for patient-centered care, and one big step for patient engagement, would be to set out clearly how patients and the village of professionals serving them will communicate.

Government investment in prenatal and postnatal health care could help prevent violent behavior later in life, researcher says.

Can $1.1 billion make comparative effectiveness research a regular part of medical care and health insurance in the United States?

While it’s not a bad idea to pay attention to the various costs of your medical care, the president of the Center for Advancing Health argues that haggling over costs is not a long-term solution to spiraling expenses.

A report by the nonpartisan Texans Care for Children finds that glaring social problems borne by Texas’ children have resulted from its state government’s policies.

Gary Cohen and his nonprofit, Health Care Without Harm, have persuaded hospitals around the world to close their medical-waste incinerators, dramatically cutting emissions of dioxin and other toxins.

Obstetric fistula, a devastating consequence of childbirth that is both preventable and treatable, draws nongovernmental organizations and health care companies to pledge to fight it.

WANTED, Home care providers: flexible hours, good working conditions, low pay, age irrelevant, bring own insurance.

Americans living in high poverty bear the burden of more than 20 common diseases that the medical establishment largely does not monitor, diagnose or treat, studies show.

Emerging research suggests kids’ social network postings reflect their real-life behavior. Should that information be used in their medical care?

All those nagging issues from a year or so of Miller-McCune health coverage show up in the nation’s health report card.

If I’m going to help pay your health care bills, you could at least try and eat better.

From breast pumping to adoption tax credits, the leviathan known as the U.S. health care bill is loaded with little goodies.

Reaching the potential of personalized medicine is as much a matter of logistics as science.

While the big health care summit was kind of artificial, it still let real people participate (at a remove) in real time.

Research shows that in Canada, health determines who sees a specialist, but in the U.S., income does.

Depression-era health solution may find new favor in the modern American struggle for health care change.

A host of meaningful stories from Miller-McCune.com’s second full year on the Web.

Beyond the humanity, there’s a business case for tackling the persistent gap in health for most U.S. minorities.

The miracle berry’s astounding ability to turn the sour sweet makes it a party favorite, but its properties may help dieters and cancer patients, too.

A public option for U.S. health care has been refashioned as a decision for individual states. Might some states most in need spurn the offer?

The fight over a public option means nil to the majority of Americans — who won’t have the option to buy it anyway.

Health care will change an essential American debate, and it’s unlikely to take its cue from anywhere else.

Henry George and his 19th-century manifesto have a renewed relevance during the current U.S. health care debate.

Yes, sort of, answers our correspondent as he compares the landscape of Europe’s smaller states with the ‘United’ ones.

Our correspondent reluctantly returns to the trenches of the health care cost debate and reports back, with heart.

A ‘bazaar’ approach to health plans might be the least bizarre way to maintain America’s accidental tradition of medical insurance.

Our European correspondent concludes his look at health care options in Europe by trying to strike a balance between individual and centralized concerns.

The health plan wonderland of middle Europe has some issues of its own that Americans might factor into their own debate.

Even if you’re agnostic on the matter of death panels, why is it OK to off grandma and not gramps?

As medically underserved Hispanic communities cry out for doctors, a new program puts physicians in their midst back into practice.

Health insurance watchdogs in Oregon say the way regulators and the industry have analyzed administrative costs for decades are wrong. Will Obama and Congress listen?

Some opponents of the president’s health care efforts liken it to totalitarian states. But what was health care policy like under, say, the Nazis?

Hot on socialized medicine or cool with private payer, take the temperature of your favorite U.S. health care option with our handy-dandy Miller-McCune meter.

When sick people change health plans, it can muck up the insurance market. A new paper suggests ways for fixing it.

As health care reform swirls around who pays and not what they pay, health insurers point fingers at medical providers for charging exorbitant prices that few know are negotiable.

Our Joan Melcher visits a town hall featuring Barack Obama and reflects on the nature of free speech.

New book Healing the Broken Mind by Timothy Kelly demonstrates how to begin fixing America’s utterly failed mental health care system.

As the Germans and French have shown, a ‘public option’ for health insurance needn’t give government a socialistic monopoly.

America’s way of providing medical care has an Achilles’ heel — not in the operating room or the pharmacy, but at the oil well and the refinery.

As it attempts to balance controlling costs and providing health care while not stepping on entrepreneurship, will Congress take on self-referring doctors?

Making sure people get health care when they leave prison saves taxpayer money and protects public health. It may even help them stay out of prison.

Two studies, one in Chicago and the other in Seattle, prove we can save health care dollars by housing and helping the homeless.

Kirk Nielsen takes the pulse of the nation’s emergency health care costs by passing out and getting gouged.

It’s not sexy enough to make a Grey’s Anatomy episode, but better primary health care would save a lot of money — and lives.

In a Miller-McCune.com interview, Marian Wright Edelman of the Children’s Defense Fund explains why tackling poverty, education and health care during this financial crisis makes economic sense.

A host of meaningful stories from Miller-McCune.com’s first full year on the Web.

Community-based outreach to address diabetic health care disparities offers broader lessons.

How likely is it that you will receive treatment the medical literature says is best? Flip a coin. Evidence-based health care can improve those odds, save lives and cut health care costs dramatically.

A film on a health care system that impoverishes and kills people, just because they lose their jobs.

New York’s attorney general investigates possible fraud in an industry built on denying care, and two U.S. representatives want Medicare to have no part in it.