Topic: Health Care Issues

The Myelin Repair Foundation Encourages Collaboration for a Cure

Scientists in their labs. Big Pharma in pursuit of the next blockbuster. An innovative foundation brings them together to speed up the discovery of multiple-sclerosis drugs.READ»

Cool Teenagers Use Peer Pressure to Prevent Smoking

The University of Bristol has its hands on a new anti-smoking weapon--teenage social influencers.READ»

Health 2.0 Causes Industry Shift in Five Years

Since December 2006, when Matthew Holt and Indu Subiya almost single-handedly began the Health 2.0 movement with Matthew's blog and their first conference, the entire world of health care has begun to change. And that's not a simple ...READ»

Your Sunblock Probably Isn't Blocking the Sun

Chalk one up for the sun in the ongoing battle to keep ourselves from frying. A study of U.S. sunscreens finds that most offer minimal protection from ultraviolet A rays, which can burn us even on cloudy days. Some are even carcinogenic.READ»

How Wireless Technology Will Change Global Health

There is a slick new television commercial advertising Apple's iPad. It includes a cool medical application that can be used for medical imaging. The advertisement shows a trend in medicine: in the last two years there has been an ...READ»

Telemedicine Gets a Boost From Novartis and the Earth Institute

The Bonsaaso Millennium Village to be crowned with telemedicine upgrades.READ»

Indian Trade Agreements Could Choke AIDS Drug Lifeline

New numbers reveal just how dependent the world really is on India's cheap anti-retroviral drugs, but free trade agreements with the EU could bring catastrophic changes to developing nations.READ»

Sea, Sun, and Scalpels: Brazil's Bid to Be the Four Seasons of Medical Tourism

Brazil, which has seen the number of foreign patients rise from 48,000 in 2005 to 180,000 last year--and is growing at a 30% clip year-over-year--is poised to draw still more from its neighbors and the U.S. thanks to shorter flights and a bump from futebol.READ»

McStatins Happy Meal Would Prevent Heart, Big Mac Attacks: Frustrated Cardiologist

Care for a side of DNA analysis with that?READ»

Don't Bogart That Name: Medical Marijuana Trademarks

With the possible legalization of marijuana in California, will we be inundated with branding, or will Acapulco Gold stay in the public domain?READ»

GE and Intel to the Old and Infirm: Stay Home!

GE and Intel want to keep sick people at home--instead of the hospital.READ»

South Korea Braces for Sidewalk Smoking Ban

Seoul's no smoking rule goes into effect on August 28th, will it work?READ»

10th World Congress of Bioethics

"In a way, bioethics is sort of a catch-up game," says Lee Hin Peng, chair of this biennial meet-up, which draws the field's top academics, researchers, and policy advisers. "Every time there's a new development in science, you ...READ»

Candy-Flavored Cigarettes Are Officially Banned, Drug-Themed Candy Remains Legal [Updated]

It's a tough week for cigarette companies looking to recruit the next generation of smokers. Cigarette companies can no longer lure the young with claims of "light," "mild," "medium," or "low." And candy-flavored cigarettes have ...READ»

FDA Calls Marlboro Out on Creative Marketing of "Light" Cigarettes

Cigarette manufacturers, beware: the FDA won't stand for any creative workarounds to its ruling requiring companies to remove descriptors like "light," "mild," and "low tar" from cigarette packaging. The New York Times reports that ...READ»

Next Health: Better Office Health Through Employee's Diet

Moderation, schmoderation. Can Zoe Finch Totten's whole-foods-only wellness system attack companies' health-care costs through employees' stomachs?READ»

• The New (Food) Math

Dan Heath: Want Your Organization to Change? Put Feelings First

[video_twistage 1 protect]When we want people to change, we try to teach them something. We think if my Dad just understood the health complications obesity causes, he’d eat healthier. Or if my teenager just understood the danger of ...READ»

Driving Makes You Fat, Urban Sprawl Bankrupts You, Other Life-Saving New Urbanist Epiphanies

On the afternoon of July 6, 1999, Dr. Richard Jackson was summoned to the office of his boss, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Jackson was then the head of the CDC's National Center for Environmental ...READ»

PhRMA Chokes International Trade

The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the leading trade organization for U.S. drug companies, does not want U.S. consumers to have a choice of where they buy their drugs. To keep U.S. consumers from researching foreign markets to find safe drugs at prices as much as three or four times less than in the United States, PhRMA and its members started aggressively shutting down the drug supply to international pharmacies, disabling them from dispensing to U.S. citizens.READ»

Health Care Reform Update from Easy To Insure ME

May 12, 2010Read this week about what is happening on the federal legislative front of Health Care Reform.House Hearing on Health Care Pricing Transparency ProposalsThe House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health held a hearing ...READ»

Toxic Cigarette Butts Could Prevent Steel From Rusting

Cigarette smoking has eased up in the U.S., thanks to high prices and increasingly draconian laws (smoking banned on beaches, anyone?). The same can't be said for China, where 300 million smokers go through an average of 16 ...READ»

Prescription Drug Stats a Bitter Pill to Swallow

Americans are loading up an anti-anxiety drugs -- and lining the pockets of Big Pharma.READ»

Cheap Florida Health Insurance Is Possible

Finding cheap health insurance is a must these days. While many don’t think that’s possible, it is. Sure, people want and need to save money wherever they can during these tough economic times. If they choose to “not” buy ...READ»

New Medicare Supplement Plan N Saves Seniors Money

Beginning June first of this year a new medicare supplement plan will hit the market.  The new supplemental plan N is designed to help Medicare recipients cover the excess charges not covered by basic Medicare with lower premiums ...READ»

Getting into Debt – Can you avoid it?

When it comes to getting into debt, people seem to do it in one of two main ways. In some cases, debt seems to hit you like a brick, when you lose your job or you get sick and you end up paying a lot of money for medical expenses, or you’re not able to work anymore.READ»