Health 2.0 Conference Review
Editor's note: this week the Health 2.0 Conference was held in San Diego, CA. The following is a review of the event, by Bill Allman from HealthCentral.com. We have another review coming shortly, from Josh Rosenthal. ...
How Health Care Played
Exit polls from Texas and Ohio show interesting results when it comes to health care. First, while health care remains among the top three issues, it is now third in both states, well behind the economy which is at the top. ...
US health care quality disproportionate to cost
Citizens of no other nation with universal health care would understand the bizarre health care concepts Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton have proposed.
Essential environmental health standards in health care [publication]
Health–care associated infections affect between 5 and 30% of patients. The associated burden of disease is extremely high, and is a significant drain on health-sector resources and households. Ensuring safe environmental health ...
Mental Health Parity This Year?
It’s taken 7 years to get to this point, but it appears that with the passage of a House bill that calls for mental health parity. What is mental health parity? Well, it’s simple really — treating mental health disorders as equals to ...
Climate change poses a huge threat to human health
Climate change will have a huge impact on human health and bold environmental policy decisions are needed now to protect the world’s population, according to the author of an article published in the BMJ today. ...
Scripps Health IS Operations in the Local Paper
Scripps Health production control specialist Debbie Taratuta (left), information services supervisor Tom Liston and senior computer operator Dennis Hemme monitored the San Diego County hospital operator's electronic medical records ...
6-year-old dies from flu-related causes in Massachusetts
BOSTON (AP) - State health officials have confirmed the first flu-related death of a child this year in Massachusetts. The Department of Public Health says the 6-year-old, identified only as a resident of Suffolk County, ...
Health Bill Would Recognize Mental Illness As a Physical Illness ...
Many health insurance plans are able to deny coverage for mental illnesses and addiction treatment to their subscribers. This discrimination against mental health conditions puts treatment for thousands of Americans out of reach because ...
Is college a health problem?
Due to less sleep, more work and copious opportunities to eat out and order in, students’ overall health can easily deteriorate if they don’t consciously make an effort to take care of themselves, sophomore Michael Worsman said. ...