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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 »

Deepak Chopra: Weekly Health Tip: You Are Home to Millions of …

Brought to you by Deepak Chopra, MD, Alexander Tsiaras, and TheVisualMD.com If you are in the habit of scrubbing your hands, your home and your children with bacteria-fighting gels and soaps, consider this: The average adult intestine ... Read the rest of this entry »

Dr. Cindy Haines: Health Care Reform, the Government, and You

I would describe myself as a political. As in a-political. Read the rest of this entry »

KQED's Forum: Sugar and Health | Bay Area Bites | KQED Food

UCSF professor Robert Lustig became an Internet video sensation when he spoke out about the evils of sugar in a post that went viral on YouTube. He was also recently featured in a New York Times Magazine cover story, Is Sugar Toxic? Read the rest of this entry »