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Health Affairs (blog)
At Wright on Health, Brad Wright offers some health policy insight in his August recess edition of the Health Wonk Review. Brad highlights the Health Affairs Blog post by Jon Kingsdale and Julia Lerche on the “one-two punch” threatening the ACA's ...
NPR (blog)
What The US Health Care System Can Learn From Ebola Outbreak
NPR (blog)
There is no drug for the pathogen CRE (carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae), which can be caught by patients in health care settings, and like Ebola it's got a high mortality rate. If there's a drug out there that could possibly save somebody's ...
NPR (blog)
Has Health Law Helped Young People Get Mental Health Treatment? Maybe
NPR (blog)
Before 2010, just over 30 percent of young adults with mental health issues said they were getting treatment. And that went up by about 2 percent in the two years after the ACA provision took effect, the study found, based on data from the National ...
Downtown conference raises awareness on mental healthKENS 5 TV
Oregon adds transgender procedures to Oregon Health Plan
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
Marchers supporting rights for transgender people rallied in New York in June. Thursday, an Oregon state medical panel expanded health-care options available to low-income transgender Oregon residents, prompting advocates to call it an "historic day.
Metro health report reissued because of errors
The Courier-Journal
The Louisville health department has corrected and reissued a report that ranks health in 24 city neighborhoods because of errors in the initial report. The original data made some neighborhoods look healthier than they are, while others looked worse ...
Another reason to want the corner office: It's good for your health
KHON2
Cheung and Zee's most recent study found that workers who had a window in their office had a much better sense of health. They examined the lives of 49 people — 27 who worked in windowless offices and 22 who worked near windows. These were people ...
Why sprawl may be bad for your health
Washington Post (blog)
Marshall and Garrick's latest research, published with Dan Piatkowski in the Journal of Transport & Health, adds to this last idea: They've now found that more compact and connected cities of the kind shown at left — which have a lot more ...
Health officials: spraying less toxic than repellent
The Coloradoan
Spraying store-bought mosquito repellent on skin exposes humans to more toxins than communitywide spraying of permethrin-based insecticide, according to the Larimer County Department of Health and Environment. In a letter Dr. Adrienne LeBailly sent to ...
Is ObamaCare Hazardous To Your Health?
Forbes
I say “unexpected” because virtually everyone in the health policy community has bought into the idea that good medicine is medicine practiced in teams – rather than solo – and it is medicine that centers on medical homes and follows protocols where ...
New health apps, games reward patients who take their meds
Yahoo News
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A group of ex-gaming industry executives say they can use their design chops to solve a major health challenge: Sick patients neglecting to take their medication and costing employers and insurance providers billions of dollars.