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Treating the Indonesian Diabetes Pandemic: A Case Study from Novo Nordisk
Health: Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk has released a new case study that examines the challenges for diabetes care in Indonesia. The study refle
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Verizon Links Up Social Responsibility and Sustainability
Corporate Social Responsibility: Verizon announced that it will cut its CO2 intensity in half by 2020, as part of the company's broad sustainability efforts. Besides reducing emissio
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Women's Health: Tsunamis, Natural Disasters, Resilience and Coping Revisited: A Little Help is Good
Health: A few weeks ago, I posted an article that largely agreed with a researcher's findings that people are naturally resilient and many coping interventio
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Pharmaceutical Data-Mining, Health Care Privacy and "Free" Speech: Sorrell vs. IMS Health
Health: Today the US Supreme Court is due to hear arguments in Sorrell vs. IMS Health, a pharmaceutical data-mining case that has potentially far reaching im
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Who Can Fix Health Care? TEDx Talk @Dartmouth
Health: Who Can Fix Health Care? - That's the question posed by Dr. Al Mulley. director of the Center for Health Care Delivery Science at Dartmouth College.
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How Much Does Your Insurance Pay Your Doctor; Do You Care?
Health: There are a few cost comparisons we are familiar with when comparing health insurance options, while choosing an insurance option from your employers
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Leveraging EMR to Embed Comparative-Effectiveness Research into Clinical Practice
Health: A new approach to health care delivery may well provide a first taste of the value that can be realized when health IT is integrated into systems for
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Wisdom of the Crowd: What Health Reform Might Look Like If Voters Had Their Say
Health: As legislators torture health reform to a slow and painful death with ideological wrangling, a new survey just released by the Commonwealth Fund offe
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Mental Resilience: How People Overcome Tsunamis, Meltdowns and other Disasters
Health: The world is full of people suffering. Tsunamis, earthquakes, epidemics and other natural disasters are obvious stressors. Acts of war and terrorism
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Do High Deductible Health Plans Reduce Cost?
Health: Health reform and health care redesign inevitably fixates on reducing costs. Yes, theres always the idea that we might improve quality and safety, bu
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Health Care Delivery Science: Management is Key to Affordable Quality
Health: One of the most exciting advancements in todays health industry is the growing field of health care delivery science. Granted, not everyone is aware
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Despite Positive Findings, Uncertainty around Evidence Behind Electronic Medical Records
Health: A new review of recent literature on the effectiveness of electronic medical records (EMR) from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Inf
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Do Incentives for Electronic Medical Records Outweigh the Costs?
Health: Electronic Medical Records (EMR) are receiving a lot of attention as well as investment. The federal government has earmarked some $20 billion to get
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Need a Health Coach?
Health: Whether you look at those who struggle with obesity and smoking or chronic conditions like diabetes and high cholesterol, many will give you excuses
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Public Health Indicators in Libya Higher than Expected, but Revolt Disrupts Services
Health: Doctors Without Borders/Mdecins Sans Frontires (MSF) finally has an eight-person team inside Libya, and reached three medical in facilities Benghazi.
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Opportunity for Doctor and Patient Education
Health: According to a Florida study, too many women are receiving surgery for breast lump biopsies. The study estimates that although approximately 30 perce
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Could Social Media Advance Cancer Care?
Health: Even though there are some 8,000 clinical trials currently accepting cancer patients as participants, and three-quarters of cancer patients expect th
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HR. 1 Proposes to Eviscerate Community Health Centers
Health: This Wednesday or Thursday the House is scheduled to vote on HR. 1, a bill targeting numerous life-sustaining social programs funded by the Departmen
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From Seashore to Surgical Suite: Medicine Learns From Mollusks
Health: Well, maybe not mollusks, but actually mussels, those black bivalves better known for their culinary attributes (and especially delicious when prepar
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Technology for Better Health Care
Health: At a time when health care is on everyones mind, there are companies that are centering their business model around the benefits of modern technology
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