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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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Scrutinize health care tips that come via "Tweets"
Health: Tweeting, texting and other social media practices have become a valuable source of health care information in our culture. Twitter updates, or "twee
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Celebrate National Public Health Week
Health: Much of the talk about health reform has been focused, laser-like, on availability of health care insurance. Less was said during that particular deb
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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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Global health challenge: Kenya aims to improve child health
Health: Recent evidence from London has shown how simple checklists of appropriate health care practices can dramatically reduce deaths in the hospital. (Som
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Boost your health with National Start! Walking Day
Health: Health care providers worldwide agree: one of the easiest and surefire ways to improve your health is to get out of that chair (or off that sofa) and
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The iPad and the Health Care Industry
Health: When Apple unveiled the iPad in January, the tablet device was touted as revolutionizing the way in which we experience the web, email, photos, video
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Health policy: the UK puts teeth behind quality improvement
Health: Last weeks edition of the medical journal The Lancet discusses new quality improvement enforcement efforts that were launched on April 1st. After the
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Should healthy people take cholesterol drugs?
Health: As I was walking through my neighborhood yesterday, I noticed a copy of Parade magazine, opened to a page with a blaring headline that read "The Rise
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Gulf War veterans get a health care boost
Health: It's long been noted that for many military veterans, problems often don't end just because a soldier has returned from combat. Coming home can be a
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Beware the Health Care Discount Plan media blitz
Health: The television commercial is very flashy. It features the White House against a backdrop of red and blue. An announcer shouts out that health care re
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Health policy: China moves towards universal coverage and reimbursement reform
Health: It appears that what doesnt work in US health care also doesnt work in China, at least when it comes to paying providers. Chinas health care system h
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Congress and celebs alike are trying to tackle healthy lunches
Health: Though the health care reform bill has taken up a lot of ink (and pixels) in the past few weeks, a close runner-up for the most talked-about health i
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Health reform: A facelift for Medicare?
Health: Last week a reliable source confirmed that the rumors were true: Don Berwick will be named the next director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid
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Health risks: Drug-resistant infections on the rise
Health: Community acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections may be common among ill children, according to Johns Hopkins researc
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Tanning Beds Are Feeling the Heat from Health Officials
Health: An FDA advisory panel this week recommended that children and teens should be kept from using tanning beds, or at least should have parents sign a co
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