Backed by both presidential candidates, Silicon Valley tech giants and other companies are leading an effort to create electronic health records containing data about your most intimate health conditions — from your bunions and bad back to your chronic hemorrhoids and psychiatric history — so the information can be easily shared with doctors, insurers and others.
Proponents of electronic health records believe they can dramatically cut Read the rest of this entry »
The health of his game quickly improved.
Trying to lose “excess fat,” Choi and his trainer embarked on a program that would gradually reduce the weight. Instead, Choi lost pounds so fast he lost touch with his golf swing.
“It threw my body off a little bit,” Choi said this week at the Sony Open, which began Thursday. “I lost a lot of energy. Just compared to the reduction of the weight, the specs for my clubs, they didn’t feel right.”
His results Read the rest of this entry »
The five-day academy includes sessions on networking, intellectual
property, market and business validation, elevator pitches, development
strategies, and the logistics of building a team and establishing an
organization. Participants work with mentors from the venture and
business community to develop their group presentations. A keynote
networking dinner is scheduled for Wednesday, February 25, for Read the rest of this entry »
By Heather Bauer, R.D.
Myth or Fact: Cleansing/Detox diets are a good way to jump start my diet?
SORRY, BIG MYTH!
There is little evidence to support that detox diets, such as The Master Cleanse, do much more than lead to unhealthy, unpleasant side effects. In fact, detox diets can actually do more harm than good as they lead to muscle breakdown and a shortage of some very important vitamins and minerals which weakens our immune system and our Read the rest of this entry »
A Healthy You! — America’s Guide to Healthy Living is aimed at addressing
the effects of poor health in our country. The book is available in English
and Spanish and includes an extensive listing of specific resources in each
state where people can access useful programs and agencies in their area.
Lilly teamed up with the National Council of La Raza, the largest national
Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, to Read the rest of this entry »
10:46pm UK, Sunday November 09, 2008
The head of one of Britain’s leading children’s hospitals has hit back at a highly critical doctors’ report that claimed some treatments were worse than in the developing world.
The report into care at Birmingham Children’s Hospital (BCH) obtained by The Observer newspaper revealed that doctors felt they received better theatre support when performing kidney transplants during a charity visit to Lagos, Nigeria, Read the rest of this entry »
Q&A on health care with U.S. Senate candidates
What should Congress do to increase the availability of health insurance coverage to the uninsured? Should government take a larger role in providing health coverage, should it be left to the private sector, or a combination?
Sen. Mitch McConnell:
“There are a number of common-sense steps Congress should take to lower health care costs and improve access to health insurance for all Americans, but Read the rest of this entry »
Novartis, Sanofi Sales Unleashed by FDA Disease Plan (Update1)
Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) –
's 10-year-old malaria
pill may qualify the Swiss drugmaker for $500 million in extra
sales as a result of a U.S. program to fight tropical disease.
Under the plan, a company that submits a prospective
treatment for one of 16 tropical illnesses will get a voucher
that can be used to gain a faster review of another, more
commercial, medicine. A priority Read the rest of this entry »
I recall looking at General Hospital with awe when I started my internship there almost 20 years ago. As you walk through the main entrance, you look up and see the artwork on the domed ceiling depicting some of the greatest physicians throughout history, almost a medical version of the Sistine Chapel. There are parallel lines running throughout the main floor, each one painted in a different color or pattern, providing directions to each part of Read the rest of this entry »
Think health insurance at work is expensive? Try paying for it if you get laid off.
That is exactly what many Americans losing their jobs are going to have to do. The need for Congress to reform this country’s health-care system takes on a new urgency when the number of unemployed has increased by 2.8 million this year. In November alone, 533,000 jobs disappeared.
In the United States, health insurance is frequently tied to employment. Losing Read the rest of this entry »