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The Cost of Apples
By SAMUEL YANG Up until last May, my experience of medical costs was limited to the $100 per month premium I contributed towards my employer-sponsored insurance and the nominal co-pays associated with well-child checkups and generic prescriptions. There...
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Thu, Mar 24 2011 6:00 AM
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Samuel Yang
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Endoscopy
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Preexisting Condition
Is That Thorazine in the Baby’s Bottle?
By PSYCH GRIPE One of the most disturbing trends in mental health today is the increasing use of powerful antipsychotic medication to treat behavioral problems in children, even very young children. According to a 2009 report by the Food and Drug Administration...
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Thu, Mar 24 2011 4:00 AM
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Primary Care Workforce Situation: Not Hopeless
By DAVID E. WILLIAMS I sometimes observe that the only sector of the economy as messed up as health care is higher education, where the US has some great institutions but where costs are incredibly high and have been rising relentlessly for long periods...
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Sat, Mar 26 2011 3:49 PM
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David Williams
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Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
By KIMBERLEY MANNING, MD On May 19, 1996, I graduated from medical school. And although I look and seem ridiculously youthful (I know, that’s what you were saying) it’s been–as my patients at Grady like to say–”a mi-nute”...
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Sun, Mar 27 2011 10:37 AM
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The GOP’s Health Policy Cynics
By MICHAEL MILLENSON The health care community is discovering to its shock and dismay that it’s not simply traditional Republican conservatives who have taken control of the House of Representatives, it’s a new group of cynics. Conservatives...
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Wed, Mar 09 2011 6:11 AM
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Michael Millenson
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Government Failure
By JOHN GOODMAN I can’t even count the number of articles and blog posts I’ve seen asserting that markets can’t work in health care. Or that they work very imperfectly. Or that they suffer from serious “market failure.” In every case, the writer just...
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Thu, Mar 10 2011 9:20 AM
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What’s The Worst Case Scenario In Japan Nuke Crisis?
By MERRILL GOOZNER This from John Beddington, the United Kingdom’s chief science advisor at its Tokyo embassy: Let me now talk about what would be a reasonable worst case scenario. If the Japanese fail to keep the reactors cool and fail to keep the pressure...
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Tue, Mar 22 2011 6:51 AM
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Merrill Goozner
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Radiation exposure
A World Without *** Cancer?
By VIPAN NIKORE There isn’t a country on this planet where there isn’t someone dreaming of curing cancer. What if there was something even more spectacular than curing cancer? What if you could stop cancer right in its tracks and eliminate its existence...
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Sat, Mar 19 2011 10:36 AM
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Health 2.0 News Bites are up
Over on our sister site, the Health 2.0 News Blog, MEDecision, Human Health Project and many more are on this week’s extensive list of news bites–with cool new icons! Tweet this Share on Facebook Read More...
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Fri, Mar 04 2011 7:51 AM
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THCB Live: Sage CEO Betty Otter-Nickerson
Betty Otter-Nickerson, Sage from Health 2.0 on Vimeo. Matthew caught up with Sage Healthcare CEO Betty Otter-Nickerson at HIMSS to talk about the company’s plans for 2011 and beyond. Tweet this Share on Facebook Read More...
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Thu, Mar 17 2011 1:57 PM
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HIMSS 2011
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Betty Otter-Nickerson
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Liquid Vapor
By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE For the uninitiated, every year HIMSS runs this big huge trade show for EHR and HIT vendors, which is to the HIT industry what Oscar night is to Hollywood. No, HIMSS does not award any prizes or trophies, but it occasions the same...
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Tue, Mar 01 2011 12:20 PM
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Margalit Gur-Arie
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Front Page
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HIMSS 2011
Tough Talk
By PAUL LEVY Some people at the University of Washington and colleagues from around the country run a wonderful website called Tough Talk: Helping Doctors Approach Difficult Conversations. They call it a “toolbox for medical educators” who...
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Tue, Mar 15 2011 7:18 AM
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Paul Levy
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Conflicts Of Interest In Guideline Development: A Dirty Little Secret Gets Aired Again
By DAVID WILLIAMS An Archives of Internal Medicine article (Conflicts of Interest in Cardiovascular Clinical Practice Guidelines) is getting a lot of notice today. In essence, many of the physicians who develop guideline that influence practice patterns...
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Thu, Mar 31 2011 4:19 AM
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NIH
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cardiology
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Eli Lilly
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Laboratories of Democracy, Part 2
By MERRILL GOOZNER Experimentation in how states would move toward universal health care coverage was written into the DNA of the Affordable Care Act. The law allowed any state to petition for a waiver that would enable it to enact its own brand of reform...
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Tue, Mar 01 2011 9:57 PM
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Obamacare
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Insurance companies dancing without touching
By PAUL LEVY A story in the Washington Post talks about health insurance companies seeking new lines of unregulated business as the profitability of health insurance falls and as more and more requirements are placed on that line of business as a result...
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Mon, Mar 21 2011 4:28 AM
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