An Oxygen Tax
The UK explored selling or leasing forest land to private interests, but encounter some public backlash. “The plans were intended to give the private sector, community and charitable groups greater…
Massachusetts Medical School Wins Contract to Design Health Insurance Exchanges
Massachusetts was the model that was used to design some of the models that were used to create the plan for insurance exchanges. Now when you read this article you…
Will the U.S. Lead on Global Health? Start with Vaccination.
USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah gave a speech yesterday at the National Institutes of Health, highlighting his aspirations for U.S. leadership on global health. By 2015, among other goals, he hopes…
Obama and Budget Director Certain on Most Facets of ’12 Budget (Just Don’t Ask About Medicare & Medicaid)
President Obama has referred to Medicare and Medicaid as the “two biggest drivers of long term deficit growth”. So it’s no surprise that the 2012 Budget addresses these issues copiously.…
Should the US Destroy its Cache of Smallpox Virus?
Smallpox killed between 300–500 million people during the 20th century. As recently as 1967, 15 million people were infected and 2 million died from smallpox. Amazingly however, a massive, global…
UCLA and VA Researchers Accidentally Discover Compound that Induces Hair Growth By Blocking Stress Related Hormone-They Filed for a Patent
What they found by accident was that astressin-B could also translate for use in human hair growth. It is known that the stress-hormone CRF, its receptors and other peptides that…
Bye, bye Brokers?
In general I oppose the minimum Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) provision of the Affordable Care Act. If an insurer can help keep me healthy and out of the hospital and…
FDA Gives Approval for Lap-Band Use With Less Obese Patients
This means those who are borderline no longer have to put on weight to have the surgery, hey that does happen sometimes. In Europe the Lap Band is already considered…
85 Year Old Surgeon Gets 3 Years Probation in Death of Patient Under Going Cosmetic Surgery
You have to wonder about this case as yes it is unfortunate the woman died and the article states he had not performed surgery in over 5 years, so one…
CDW Healthcare Survey Shows Consumers Trust and Believe Their Doctors But are Skeptical About The Use of Electronic Records Primarily Due to Security Concerns
CDW Healthcare has the results of another survey they conducted and this time it was about consumer trust and the use of electronic medical records. Back in December of 2010…
