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Text4Baby Mobile Services Gives New Moms Health Updates
What every mother wants for Mother's Day: healthy children. A free mobile service called Text4Baby sends breaking health information to new and expecting mothers. Read the rest of this entry »
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on National Women's Health Week
Starting with Mother's Day, May 13, we are observing National Women's Health Week; the theme this year is “It's Your Time.” We can all celebrate the women in our lives during National Women's Health Week by encouraging ... Read the rest of this entry »
Economist's View: The Slippery Slope for Health Care's Slippery …
Richard Thaler: Slippery-Slope Logic, Applied to Health Care, by Richard Thaler, Commentary, NY Times: There are lots of important things to worry about these day... So it is important that we limit our worries to real as ... Read the rest of this entry »
CDC | Greenhouse Gases | Public Health | The Daily Caller …
Public health has taken center stage in efforts to regulate greenhouse gases. Read the rest of this entry »
How New Technology Drives Up Health Costs
Heart devices known as drug-eluting stents have added as much as $1.57 billion to U.S. health costs since their introduction in 2003, U.S. researchers said on Monday. The study offers an illustration of how new technology can drive ... Read the rest of this entry »
Up Next? Oral Health | The Health Care Blog
“Can you imagine a time when we fully incorporate mental and dental health into our thinking about health ? What is it about problems above the neck that seems to exclude them so often from policy about health care?” ... Read the rest of this entry »
Dietary Supplements May Give False Sense of Health Protection …
According to experts, one-half of the population uses dietary supplements. For most of us, we believe this is a method of improving our health . Read the rest of this entry »
RealClearPolitics – How Health Reform Punishes Work
LAST WEEK, as they celebrated the fifth birthday of the state's universal health care law, Democrats offered crocodile congratulations to Mitt Romney for his role in making the landmark statute a reality. Because that law... more ›› ... Read the rest of this entry »
Supreme Court Denies Health Care Opponents' Fast Track Request | TPMDC
The Supreme Court has decided not to make history by bumping Virginia's crusade against the new national health care law to the front of the legal line. The ruling -- denying a request from Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to... Read the rest of this entry »
Yglesias » Health Care As A Consumption Good
I think the argument that we can't treat health care services exactly like other consumer goods makes sense. If someone makes some questionable decisions and hits a run of bad luck and can't afford a television, then he goes without ... Read the rest of this entry »