Category Archives: Health Insurance
Smartphone Apps Bolster Patient Engagement
Smartphone Apps Bolster Patient Engagement. I hope “focus on patient interest” doesn’t take away from the realistic image of a patient’s actual weight loss.
Are non-smokers smarter than smokers?
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cigarette smokers have lower IQs than non-smokers, and the more a person smokes, the lower their IQ, a study in over 20,000 Israeli military recruits suggests.
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Can Doctors Tell Patients No? It’s Not Easy
Why? It’s hard for doctors to say no. A big reason is that they don’t want patients to be dissatisfied. Think parents who want antibiotics for their screaming kids’ ear infections, even though the evidence says that’s usually not the … Continue reading
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Israeli Exoskeleton Suit Enables Paralayzed People To Walk
After being paralyzed for the past 20 years, Radi Kaiof began to walk down a street in Israel to the sound of a dim mechanical hum. That was the sound of an electronic exoskeleton, developed by …….
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When Development Makes Life Harder for Daughters
The Daughter Deficit- NYTimes- By TINA ROSENBERG ……in the north of India. She observed something striking about families there: parents had a fervent preference for male offspring. Women who had given birth to only daughters were desperate for sons and … Continue reading
Saving the Worlds Women
NYTimes: IN THE 19TH CENTURY, the paramount moral challenge was slavery. In the 20th century, it was totalitarianism. In this century, it is the brutality inflicted on so many women and girls around the globe: sex trafficking, acid attacks, bride … Continue reading
In Bid for Better Care, Surgery With a Warranty
What if medical care came with a 90-day warranty? Slideshow
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Hospitals Could Stop Infections by Tackling Bacteria Patients Bring In, Studies Find
“Hundreds of thousands of patients each year suffer from infections after surgery, and experts say more than half of those infections stem from bacteria the patients themselves are carrying in their nose or on their skin. Otherwise harmless bacteria can … Continue reading
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Afghan School Girls Vs. Jihadist
NYTimes: EVEN BEFORE THE men with acid came, the Mirwais Mena School for Girls was surrounded by enemies. It stood on the outskirts of Kandahar, barely 20 miles from the hometown of Mullah Muhammad Omar, the Taliban’s founder.
Mapping the Human ‘Diseasome’
Researchers created a map linking different diseases, represented by circles, to the genes they have in common, represented by squares.
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