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For those of us living in the United States, we know that our health care system is broken. We know it is broken in a thousand different ways. This is a recent and most telling example: Premature labor drug spikes from $10 to $1,500 Whether that price spike is caused by pure, unregulated money-grubbing greed, [...]
How Proton Therapy Works – great for brain tumors and prostate cancer
by Marshall Brain | January 21, 2011
There are several traditional ways to treat cancer: Surgery – cut out the cancer Chemotherapy – poison the cancer cells Radiation – kill the cancer cells with radiation (see Cyberknife, but also done with radioactive seeds and other techniques) X-ray therapy And so on… Proton therapy is a new way to treat cancer, and it [...]
According to this article, half of all Americans could have diabetes in 10 years, if current trends continue: Half of Americans Could Be Diabetic by 2020 Ten years from now, more than half of the U.S. population could have diabetes or prediabetes, according to a newly released analysis by UnitedHealth Group’s Center for Reform & [...]
Fun facts about rising health care costs in America
by Marshall Brain | September 7, 2010
The idea of the “Fun Facts” series is to highlight fun, interesting facts about a topic that are revealed in an article. The following facts about health care might be more fun if they didn’t hit so close to home. If you are an employee who gets health care coverage from an employer, some of these facts are pretty startling, especially if you extrapolate into the future. Here is the article…
High blood pressure is one of those things that is incredibly common, and incredibly expensive to the health care system. According to this page…
According to doctors, if you want beautiful abs this summer, sit-ups and crunches may not be the best way to accomplish the goal: Stop Doing Sit-Ups: Why Crunches Don’t Work The problem is summarized here: “We stopped teaching people to do crunches a long, long time ago,” says Dr. Richard Guyer, president of the Texas [...]
On Sunday, March 22, 2010, the house passed its final version of the health care reform bill (HR 4872, text is available here). The stated goal of the legislation is: “to provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending.” In addition: “This subdivision achieves this purpose by [...]
New York City is proposing that salt be banned from restaurant meals: Chefs Call Proposed New York Salt Ban ‘Absurd’ Some New York City chefs and restaurant owners are taking aim at a bill introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking. “No owner or [...]
These two graphics are interesting because they tell the same health care story from two different angles. The first looks at current health care costs in the U.S. compared to other developed nations, and also looks at the results: Health care costs around the world If we were spending the most money, and as a [...]
The Bipartisan Health Care Summit is live on YouTube right now
by Marshall Brain | February 25, 2010
You can watch the Bipartisan Health Care Summit live on YouTube: The Bipartisan Health Care Summit
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