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The science of health care delivery. What is it?
Health: A presentation I heard this week about reducing maternal and child mortality, two of the UNs Millennium Development Goals, coalesced with something t
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New ethics code for health care associations
Health: Top leaders of medical societies and journals must sever consulting and other financial ties with the health care and pharmaceutical industries under
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Huge Los Angeles free clinic provides free health care to the needy
Health: For the second time in eight months, a mobile health clinic in Los Angeles has demonstrated the enormous need for access to affordable medical care.
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Health care data and hospital quality:Is "not dead" good enough?
Health: Dueling interpretations of health care quality data in the UK is leading to a review of the use of death rates as indicators of hospital quality. I r
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Mmmmm-health: Appetizing human health solutions that boost behavior change
Health: Ive been reading with great interest all the ways that m-health (mobile-phone health technology) is being put to use, in the words of m-health innova
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Earth Day: health reminders from a plastic planet
Health: Earth day reminds us to be better stewards of our impressionable planet. Its about food, development, sustainability, political action, climate chang
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FDA could put legal limits on salt consumption
Health: Over the last year, seemingly a barrage of study after study after study has examined the negative health effects of high sodium intake. In January,
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Global health ethics & infectious disease: Kill it or contain it?
Health: Dueling papers in prominent British medical journals this month address infectious disease spread from two very different perspectives. In The Lancet
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Global Health & Innovation 2010: m-health
Health: This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend the Global Health and Innovation conference organized by Unite for Sight. Among the numerous excell
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Insurance companies invest in unhealthy eating
Health: Americans are better-informed than every about the health risks posed by eating unhealthful food, particularly fast food. There are documentaries lik
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Study sees link between teen girls' drinking, breast cancer
Health: For teenage girls, alcohol consumption can pose a number of risks: it impairs your judgment, it can land you in the hospital if you consume too much;
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Electronic health records: health-policy dreams versus reality
Health: Much hope and consternation surrounds the topic of electronic health records (EHR, or EMR, for electronic medical records). Justmeans regulars may re
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Health Reform requires disclosure of "gifts"
Health: Heres one more change brought to you by health reform: Health care providers who receive nearly any kind of payment of $10 or more from a pharmaceuti
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The business of health care: financial ownership increases surgeries
Health: Several decades of health care research has found wide geographic variation in your likelihood of receiving certain elective procedures that arent ti
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Is progress being made on maternal mortality?
Health: Earlier this week, headlines were gleefully reporting the findings from the medical journal the Lancet that touted a big drop in worldwide deaths of
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Global health: Time for "world social health insurance?"
Health: Wealthy governments are constantly struggling with how to fund their overburdened health systems. This has become apparent in the ongoing saga of US
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Navy moves to ban smoking on submarines
Health: Earlier this week I noted that some health officials are unsure how effective outdoor smoking bans may be: Since few studies have examined how much o
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After a blip, teen pregnancy is back on the decline
Health: Only a couple of months ago, a Guttmacher Institute report for the period 2006-2007 indicated that teen pregnancy was on the rise; an increase that t
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Electronic health records enhance genetic research and clinical care
Health: The awareness of technologies potential to improve health and health care is going viral. From the iPad, to mobile phones, telemonitoring and e-presc
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Do outdoor smoking bans protect public health?
Health: Secondhand smoke's harmful health effects are well-documented. According to Web MD, "A 2006 surgeon general's report confirmed that secondhand smokin
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