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$60 billion in health care waste that most docs believe is routine practice
Health: A recent Justmeans discussion suggested some ways that reforming health care delivery could reduce the cost of defensive medicine, which is the order
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Health care information online: Research tips for healthy results
Health: Theres no question that the internet has become an integral way for patients to seek health care information. Of the 75% of Americans who have web ac
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Will health care reform increase emergency room overcrowding?
Health: A new report from RAND researchers suggests that increases in health care insurance provided by health reform efforts may increase emergency room vis
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Backwoods Health Care Outranks Urban Hospital: A Dartmouth Atlas Case Study
Health: After discussing the Dartmouth Atlas in a Justmeans health editorial post last week, two weekend hospital visits gave me the chance to examine the At
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Social responsibility measure for health care: The 2010 Access to Medicine Index
Health: Can the pharmaceutical industry be socially responsible? Despite the important role that medicines play in health care, the public generally rates Bi
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U.S. ranks last among industrialized nations in health care quality, report says
Health: When it comes to health care, Americans spend the most but get the least when compared to six other industrialized nations, according to a new report
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Health care IT: Disappointing outcomes from the UK
Health: At the heart of high health care costs, and poor population health outcomes is the management of chronic diseases. Central to high quality, low cost
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Breastfeeding is, in fact, best for baby's health and health care
Health: Your grandmother was right: breastfeeding is best for babys overall health and health care. A new study has shown that babies who were breast-fed exc
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Green medicine: Is health care sustainable?
Health: Health reform efforts have placed heavy emphasis on financial sustainability in health care, but with the health care industry being the second leadi
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Unproven cancer technology drives health care costs
Health: A paper in the recent issue of Archives of Internal Medicine perfectly illustrates how waste in health care can occur when industry and government ig
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Health care problems from BP oil spill to last years, experts say
Health: The health care impact of the massive BP oil spill will be measured in years not weeks or even months according to a panel of experts who testified t
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Health care facility sends text updates on ER waiting times
Health: For people whose decision whether to visit a health care center hinges on how long they have to wait to be seen, a Chicago-area hospital has the answ
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Strong Public Health Leader Needed in Salt Reduction Effort
Health: Momentum is building for a major salt reduction campaign to improve public health in America. Advocates for this campaign argue that decreasing salt
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Will insurance improve health care and, more importantly, your health?
Health: US health care reform has been described as health-insurance reform, since its main objective appears to be increasing the number of people who have
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Health care "Super-users": What drives their need?
Health: Researchers at Henry Ford Health System have scrutinized the characteristics of people who are exceptionally heavy health care users in an effort to
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Violence on the rise at heath care clinics across the country
Health: Health care facilities have experienced a "significant" increase in violent attacks since 2004, according to a report issued last week by the Joint C
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Dartmouth Atlas Critique Sparks Debate But Fails to Sway Health Care Commentators
Health: Like fellow Justmeans editorialist Ano Lobb, and other health sector bloggers, last week's criticism of the health care cost and quality research fro
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Increasing health care supply, with organ donation tax credits
Health: Organ donation might seem like a purely health care related issue, but ethicist Dr. Jurgen De Wispelaere of Montreal University is introducing the co
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Two New Social Investment Initiatives are Launched
Social Enterprise: Two new social investment initiatives have been launched in the past week, one private and one public. The first is New Media Ventures, the first nat
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Half of all health care meds are wrongly prescribed, purchased and ingested, says report
Health: Half of all health care drugs are prescribed, dispensed or sold inappropriately, and half of all patients who receive drugs do not take them correctl
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