“The savings that come with high-deductible consumer-driven health insurance plans are enticing a growing number of small businesses to offer them to their workers. But that doesn’t necessarily mean all are buying the idea of ‘consumerism,’ where consumers are encouraged to research healthcare the same way they might shop for a cell phone. At Family […]
“Yesterday’s hearing in Washington on the diabetes drug Avandia and its links to heart attacks underscores the need for a reformed Food and Drug Administration — one that is more committed to protecting patients than to being part of the profit pipeline of the pharmaceutical industry. Avandia is just the latest example of an FDA-approved […]
“Socialized medicine doesn’t work, and state experiments toward that end are proving it. One beauty of America’s federalist system of government is that individual states can famously serve as ‘laboratories of democracy.’ Thus, state governments can experiment with different approaches to address the needs of their respective citizens, allowing us to determine which approaches work, […]
“Providing access to quality health care for our children is one of the best investments we can make for our country’s future. In threatening to veto reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, known as CoverKids in Tennessee, President Bush has lost sight of this fact. SCHIP has been overwhelmingly responsible for lowering the […]
“The first battle in the war over universal health care has begun, with the Bush administration and its right-wing allies targeting bipartisan legislation to expand and reauthorize the under-funded State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). They’re doing so with a slick campaign comprised of lies, distortions and sloganeering that derides the proposed bills as paving […]
“When people have heart attacks in the movies, they clutch their arms to their chests and double over in pain, crying out for help. In reality, the signs of a heart attack are much more subtle. Since symptoms can include mild pressure in the chest, lightheadedness and sweating, it’s often hard for the average person […]
“It only takes young smokers two days from when they first start inhaling cigarettes to become addicted to nicotine, according to a new study. And children need only smoke seven cigarettes a month to report symptoms of dependence, according to a report in the International Herald Tribune. The study contradicts the belief that long-term smoking […]
“The politically charged proposal to extend health insurance to more than 3 million poor and lower-income children nationally — one of the most ambitious domestic health proposals to come through Congress in the last decade — unfolded yesterday in the Senate under the shadow of a formal veto threat from President Bush. But unlike previous […]
“A San Francisco transplant surgeon was charged Monday with prescribing overdoses of medication to speed up the death of a man at a San Luis Obispo hospital and harvest his organs. Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, 33, prescribed excessive amounts of morphine and Ativan and injected the topical antiseptic Betadine into Ruben Navarro’s stomach in February 2006, […]
“Breaking up an exercise session, by adding a rest period in between, may boost a workout’s fat-burning efficiency, a team of Japanese and Danish researchers reports. When men exercised for two 30-minute stretches, taking a 20-minute rest break in between, they burned more fat than when they exercised for a single 60-minute session, and then […]
