Practical Approaches to Third World Health Issues
The Earth Institute’s Millennium Villages Project is a “bottom up” approach to lifting developing country villages out of the poverty trap that afflicts more than a billion people worldwide. The Millennium Villages Project plans to provide early successes on how to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) — clear targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, […]
Aravind Eye Clinic:The McDonalds of Healthcare
Pavithra Krishnan documentary on her uncle, Dr.G. Venkataswamy (Dr. V), who was born in 1918 in a small village in South India. He received his medical degree from Stanley Medical College, Chennai in 1944. He joined the Indian Army Medical Corps, but had to retire in 1948 after developing severe rheumatoid arthritis – a disease […]
This Week in Healthcare - 02/23/07
Video: John Mikytuck’s weekly take on the people, policies, and politicians impacting the healthcare debate. President Bush promotes his healthcare plan, a new study shows healthcare costs could double in 10 years, the federation of American hospitals announces their plan for healthcare, Merck agrees to stop lobbying for HPV vaccinations, and one company gets sued for enforcing employee health standards.
This Week in Healthcare - 02/21/07
Video: Hello and Welcome to This Week in Healthcare..Today we’ll look at the people, policies, and politicians impacting the healthcare debate, and we’ll help try to understand it all.
Our stories this week Lawmakers in California debate the Governor’s proposed healthcare plan, newly announced Presidential candidate Barack Obama calls for Universal Healthcare, Chair of the Senate’s Finance Committee sets a new pace for the healthcare debate, one expert says electronic health records won’t be a short-term solution, and healthcare costs may influence where businesses relocate.
Curing AIDS: Clinical Trials and Future Hopes
Since super-star athlete Magic Johnson’s wife Cookie announced he was cured from AIDS in 1997, there’s been some confusion about a cure for the disease. There is no cure for AIDS, however there are treatments.
Christina MeGill from the Cornell Clinical Trials Unit and Mark Milano from the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America discuss HIV/AIDS […]
Conversion to Low-Protein, Powder-Free Surgical Gloves: Is it Worth the Cost?
With all the hubbub regarding the end-of-the-world potentially negative consequences of latex gloves, it might be useful to review the facts from a scientific perspective.
I concluded a study recently that determined changes in overall costs associated with conversion to powder free gloves including cost of workers’ compensation cases for natural rubber latex (NRL)-related symptoms and […]
Universal Healthcare Increases Unaffordable Care
One of the first lessons in my freshman year economics course was the relationship between the supply of money and the price of goods. At its simplest level (and all other things being equal), an increase in dollars in a system raises prices for that system’s goods and services. This would be inflation.
This principle is important […]
This Week in Healthcare - 02/09/2007
Hello and Welcome to This Week in Healthcare..
Today we’ll look at the people, policies, and politicians impacting the healthcare debate, and we’ll help try to understand it all.
Our stories this week:
Walmart joins the calls for Universal Health care, Presidential hopeful John Edwards stands up for Healthcare, the Health and Human Services agency faces […]
Center For Disease Control Issues Pandemic Guidelines
Seven new cases of the H5N1 — or Avian Flu — virus occurred over the past two weeks killing five, Mike Leavitt, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, revealed Thursday.
Just because the Avian Flu no longer generates the media buzz it once did does not make the danger of an outbreak any […]
This Week in Healthcare: Week of January 15-21, 2007
Hello and Welcome to This Week in Healthcare…
Today we look at the people, policies, and politicians impacting the healthcare debate, and help you understand it all.
Our stories this week….
An unlikely alliance pushing for heathcare reform, a bipartisan healthcare bill, a court ruling for Wal-Mart, the optimistic financial projections of an insurance giant, […]
